BRITISH RAILWAY PICTORIAL: Railways of Kent

The county of Kent had a railway network of considerable complexity with a great variety of traffic. Close to London, commuter services dominated passenger traffic though longer distance trains served Kent’s coastal resorts and the Channel ports. Away from the main lines, there were the rural branches to places such as Westerham and Hawkhurst, lines that grew in importance during the hop-picking season. Kent also had two light railways, the Kent & East Sussex and the East Kent, which remained independent up to the formation of British Railways in 1948. Although much of the Kentish economy was based on agriculture, there was also the Kent coalfield, the Royal Navy at Chatham, paper mills north of Sittingbourne and much else to attract traffic to the railways.
Locations featured in the book, which records the changing railway scene in the years when steam was gradually being replaced by diesel and electric traction include: Margate, Ramsgate, Dover, Folkestone, Dungeness, Ashford, Tenterden, Hawkhurst, Canterbury, Faversham, Maidstone, Rochester, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Westerham, Sheerness and Orpington. 

Author: Anthony W. Burges 
Format: PB 80 pages
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd
Pub date: Feb 2007
ISBN 13: 9780711031654
ISBN 10: 0711031657

List Price: £12.99