Author: InvictaPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Tramways of Kent
Author: InvictaThe Electric Tramways of East Kent
Author: Robert J. HarleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781854144386
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Tramways of Kent
Author: InvictaThe Tramways of Kent: East Kent
Author: InvictaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900433450
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Kent's Transport Heritage
Author: James PrestonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445669927
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
James Preston explores the transport heritage of Kent.
The East Kent Railway
Author: John Scott-MorganPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526726882
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The East Kent Railway was one of Britain's less well known light railways, a part of the Colonel Stephens group of lines, the East Kent Railway was meant to open up the newly discovered Kent coal field and help to make its shareholders wealthy, however things took a different turn, when the projected colliery's along the line did not materialise the way the promoters had first envisaged. The only colliery to produce quantities of coal being Tilmanstone near Shepherdswell, which opened in 1912. There were other pits started along the formation of the line from Shepherdswell to Wingham, but in the cases of the other pits, only the surface buildings or test shafts were constructed, before the work was abandoned. This was largely due to flooding and the poor calorific quality of East Kent coal, which had to be mixed with other coal to be effectively used. There were four colliery's completed in Kent, the East Kent Railway only served one of them and this together with the other three lasted until the latter part of the 20th century. The railway operated a loss making passenger service to Wingham and for a few years to Sandwich Road halt on the line to Richborough Port line, however the service to Wingham Canterbury Road came to an end in October 1948, after British Railways had taken control. The East Kent Railway lasted through two world wars and was nationalised in 1948, becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways, it closed to traffic in 1984, during the coal strike.
North Kent Tramways
Author: Robert J. HarleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781873793442
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Tramways of Kent
Author: Geoffrey E. BaddeleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780948106125
Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Focusing on the tramways of Kent, this book covers Bexley, Chatham, Dartford, Dover, Erith, Gravesend, Maidstone, Sandgate, Sheerness, and Isle of Thanet.
Works Trams of the British Isles
Author: Peter WallerPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473862256
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
A photographic overview of the little-known cars and engineers that kept British tramways running smoothly and safely. While generally unfamiliar to the passengers that used tramways, works trams were an essential facet of the efficient operation of any system—large or small—and this book presents an overview of the great variety of works trams that served the first generation of tramways in the British Isles. Although construction of most tramways was left to the contractor employed on the work, once this was completed the responsibility for the maintenance and safe operation of the system fell on the operator. The larger the operator, the greater and more varied the fleet of works cars employed; specialist vehicles were constructed for specific duties. Smaller operators, however, did not have this luxury, relying instead on one or two dedicated works cars or, more often, a passenger car temporarily assigned to that work. This book is a pictorial survey of the many weird and wonderful works cars that once graced Britain’s first generation tramways.
The Southern Handbook
Author: David WraggPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750985062
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the ‘Big Four’ companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great innovator. In the 1930s the Southern pioneered the first main-line electrification and created the largest electrified suburban railway network in the world. It was also one of the few to offer regular departures and the first to run true international services, introducing the ‘Night Ferry’ through-trains from London to Paris using special ferries. Forming part of a series, along with The GWR Handbook, The LMS Handbook and The LNER Handbook, this new edition provides an authoritative and highly detailed reference of information about the Southern Railway.