Torry Hill Railway
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Gauge : | 229 mm | |
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The Torry Hill Railway is a private park railroad with the unusual gauge of 229 mm (9 inches ) at Frinsted in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent , England . It is only operated irregularly.
history
The Torry Hill Railway, like many narrow-gauge railways, was laid on English country estates in the 1930s. It is maintained by volunteer railway enthusiasts and only operated occasionally. There is also a turntable, a 30 m long tunnel and a viaduct built from scaled down bricks. It was owned by the banker Robert Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown , until 2013 .
The Torry Hill Railway tracks are laid on private land that is not open to the public. There are no public footpaths or public rights of way through the estate .
photos
literature
- Robert Turcan: Sittingbourne Through Time. Revised Edition. Amberley Publishing Limited, 2015.
Web links
- John Zebedee: PhotoStream on Flickr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Moran: Torry Hill Railway: A Narrow-Gauge Relic of the Past. Published December 21, 2015. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ↑ Dave Willis Narrow Gauge Railway Society visit to the Torry Hill Railway September 20th, 2014. Published October 1, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 0 ° 44 ′ 31.7 ″ E