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Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway in 1993

This is from a visit on 13th June 1993 to the S&KLR in north Kent, England. The 2ft 6in (762mm) gauge railway was opened to steam traction in 1904 to serve paper mills in Sittingbourne and in Kemsley, transporting incoming pulp and outgoing products between the mills and docks on the River Swale. The section from Sittingbourne to Kemsley was rescued from closure by voluntary effort in 1970 and since then has survived further threats. My video shows "Premier", one of the two original 1905 Kerr Stuart saddle tank locos working over tracks which, in places, had disappeared beneath a carpet of grasses and weeds. The next year it was taken out of service and remained so for some 28 years.