For other railways with similar names, see East Kent Railways (disambiguation).
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East Kent Light Railway
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Kent Coast line
to Ramsgate
Richboro Port
(never opened)
River Stour
Kent Coast line
to Dover Priory
Sandwich Road
Roman Road
Poison Cross
Woodnesborough
Hammill Colliery
Ash Town
Staple
Wingham Colliery
Wingham Town
Wingham (Canterbury Road)
Extension to Canterbury
(abandoned)
Eastry
Eastry South
Knowlton
Tilmanstone Colliery Halt
Tilmanstone Colliery
Eythorne
Guilford Colliery
Golgotha Tunnel (
477 yd
436 m
)
Chatham Main Line
to Faversham
Former main line connection
Shepherdswell
Shepherds Well
Chatham Main Line
to Dover Priory
The East Kent Light Railway, shown with other railway lines in Kent.A 1945 Ordnance Survey of Sandwich showing the location of the mainline station and the branch of the light railway
The East Kent Light Railway was part of the Colonel Stephens group of cheaply built rural light railways in England. Holman Fred Stephens was engineer from its inception, subsequently becoming director and manager. The line ran from Shepherdswell to Wingham (Canterbury Road) Station with a branch from Eastry through Poison Cross to Richborough Port. Built primarily for colliery traffic within the Kent Coalfields, the line was built with many spurs and branches to serve the mines, with cancelled plans to construct extensions to several others. The success of Tilmanstone colliery allowed the main line of the railway to continue operation until 1986. A remainder of the line became the East Kent Railway, a heritage railway, in 1987.
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