BOWATER PAPER RAILWAY Kent steam train ride 1962
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- Опубликовано: 7 апр 2016
- The former Bowater Paper Mills in, and near, Sittingbourne, Kent, UK, had a 2ft 6in (762mm) gauge internal railway system powered almost entirely by steam locomotives. Sittingbourne Paper Mill and the industrial railway system are now but memories. Although part of the railway and some of its steam locos survive as the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway.
We also see the the two standard gauge locos Bowater's had for their connection with British Rail's Sheerness branch.
The video also shows the overhead cableway conveying imported logs from the company's Ridham Dock to Kemsley Paper Mill. This cableway too, no longer exists.
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Bowaters Paper Railway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowater...
Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway S&KLR www.sklr.net en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting...
Narrow Guage Rail Museum www.ngrm.org.uk/narrow_gauge/narrow_gauge.php?railway_id=86
Sittingbourne en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting...
Milton Regis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_...
Kemsley & Sittingbourne Paper Mills en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemsley...
Spark Arresting Chimney en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_a...
Steam Dome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_dome
Fireless Loco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireles...
Ridham Dock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridham_...
Swale Tidal Channel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swale
River Thames Estuary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_...
Bowater / Bowater-Scott / Bowater-Lloyd / Rexam Paper en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexam
Pioneer II Loco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECR_P_...
Kent Rail Northfleet www.kentrail.org.uk/bowaters_...
Northfleet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfl...
Ebbsfleet International en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbsfle...
Eurostar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostar
HighSpeed1 Channel Tunnel Rail Link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sp...
Javelin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...
Sheerness Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheerne...
Southeastern en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southea...)
Narrow Guage Lines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...
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What an amazing industrial setup. How sad it it all gone. Imagine seeing it operational today.
A few memories of journeys to work
Really Cool. I am in NZ now but i do remember riding the Bogey Train it was called about 4yrs after this vid. Cheers, great memory.
Wonderfully nostalgic for me as I travelled to work and back on this railway for almost 5 years from 1961-66. I worked at Kemsley and caught the train at the Wharf at Sittingbourne. The train and the railway was known to those who used it and ran it as 'The Bogey'
Another gem from Alan and Heather. I love the fireman leaning out of the cab and changing the point with his foot at 3.58!
I had a cab ride somewhere around 1960 when I was about 7 years old. My Grandfather & Father both worked at the Sittingbourne site - as I did when I reached the age of 15. Memory is fading now, but I do remember the driver let me (try!) to pull a couple of levers. I later joined British Rail, and in 1976 I qualified as a mainline driver. As you can imagine, watching this video was a proper trip down memory lane! Brilliant.
Having just travelled the route this past weekend, it is great to see the operational industrial railway of the past. What a great film from that period, so glad that it was made! Something I learnt from the train crew was that they used to do a 'Wild West' trip, with sheriffs on the train, and the train being attacked by armed men on horseback. That must've been something to see ......
I could also add a point about those 3 huge log pyramids. I could clearly see them from the front door where I grew up. I also loved watching the overhead 'claws' carrying and dropping the logs onto the pile through my old 60mm telescope; but most of all I remember all the fires as those log mountains often caught fire which would take up to a week to be extinguished. I have a feeling it was something to do with natural heat being generated deep inside.
I have been here, well worth a visit
Great piece of recent history captured on film . Only one mistake by the narrator , the Swale is not a river .
Fabulous . The locos have a Continental or North American look to them with their multiple domes and spark arresting chimneys.
Nice to see history on your door step. Shame about the railway closing, still probably wasn't economical in the end.
Went in there a few times with dad lorry driving for Bowaters.
those shunters were fit!
Magic!!
Very interesting record of their operations. Particularly in respect of Monarch operating on the viaduct section to Sittingbourne as I'd been told previously (obviously wrongly!) that it was considered too heavy for that section (as was Conqueror) and I don't think I've ever see a picture published of it at that end of the line previously.
Sorry I have to point out the Swale is a River, runs from Queenbourgh to Oare
The Swale is not a river - it is a tidal channel, separating the Isle of Sheppey from the Kent mainland, open to the sea at both ends. A river has a source, from which a current flows to its mouth.
@@johnenfield1930 Spot on, John...
Absolutely love it. Can I just ask how much of the railway is left today?
The Sittingbourne and Kempsey light railway operate a two mile section of this. It has some of the original locos but not all are operational.
Is triumph still in service at the sittingbourne and kemsley light railway? I remember seeing her at kemsley in a dilapidated state on the carriage park when in the late 90s. I wondered if she is now back in her prime as I saw a photograph of her under steam in 2007
Brilliant footage and priceless. Where are any of the locos now?
A lot of them are at the SKLR, a steam railway which runs along the old Bowaters Paper line.
Most of them are still at the SKLR, but monarch as said was sold to W&LR. Some were sold to the whipsanade zoo railway. pioneer II (THE P CLASS), is at the bluebell railway. No sure where jubilee is though. Some are privately owned now
@@kingorry7223 Jubilee is currently preserved at the East Anglian Railway Museum in Essex, and is a much loved member of our operational fleet. It was brought from Bowaters by Gerald Fleuss and then sold to Reg Robinson who brought it to the EARM in 1976.
There's a group that I'm running that is dedicated to trying to preserve the standard gauge parts of the Bowaters railway, under the name 'Ridham Dock Preservation Society'
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