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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1637 on: April 21, 2020, 04:01:41 PM »

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1636 on: April 21, 2020, 03:16:15 PM »
Keith, that's the one.  APCM Stone Works according to the caption.  The odd thing about the loco is that it is an Aveling & Porter traction engine based design.  Look at the position of the compund cylinders on top of the boiler rather than either side directly coupled to the wheels.  Built 1900, photo 1932.  There's another one of similar, but not identical design in the Chatham Dockyard.
The railway was narrow gauge, and if you look closely at Google satellite view you can still see some of the trackbed.  From Stone Crossing railway station, run your eye right until you come to the large modern "shed" building.  Just prior to that you can see a trace of the track crossing Cotton Lane, passing under the railway and missing the end of Barley Close and St. Mary's Road.  It then curves right crossing the A206 before disappearing under the car park.  The pier directly opposite leading out to the ro-ro platform is on the site of the original railway pier.


Is this the other one you mentioned? My great Grandad King and great Uncle Harry ran this one in the same area. Iv'e been lead to believe that it is the one that was at Chatham Dockyard. Pic taken mid to late 1920s.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1635 on: April 21, 2020, 03:03:26 PM »
Keith, that's the one.  APCM Stone Works according to the caption.  The odd thing about the loco is that it is an Aveling & Porter traction engine based design.  Look at the position of the compund cylinders on top of the boiler rather than either side directly coupled to the wheels.  Built 1900, photo 1932.  There's another one of similar, but not identical design in the Chatham Dockyard.
The railway was narrow gauge, and if you look closely at Google satellite view you can still see some of the trackbed.  From Stone Crossing railway station, run your eye right until you come to the large modern "shed" building.  Just prior to that you can see a trace of the track crossing Cotton Lane, passing under the railway and missing the end of Barley Close and St. Mary's Road.  It then curves right crossing the A206 before disappearing under the car park.  The pier directly opposite leading out to the ro-ro platform is on the site of the original railway pier.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1634 on: April 21, 2020, 02:44:09 PM »
Shield Portland Cement Works? ......

Portland Cement Works at Stone?







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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1633 on: April 21, 2020, 02:41:38 PM »
Back a bit

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1632 on: April 21, 2020, 02:34:53 PM »
Dartford?

There is a small Artillery Cement Works?

Albion......

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1631 on: April 21, 2020, 02:28:54 PM »
Other side of Greenhithe

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1630 on: April 21, 2020, 02:24:59 PM »
Cement works, Pilgims Rd on Swansconbe/ Northfleet border

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1629 on: April 21, 2020, 02:20:53 PM »
Swanscombe?

Power is how fast you hit a wall and torque is how far you can push it....

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1628 on: April 21, 2020, 02:16:15 PM »
Not Greenhithe, but sufficiently close that I had to check.
Not Burham.
How many locos have you seen in this country with any sort of gearing?  Not many since the Salamanca of 1812.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1627 on: April 21, 2020, 02:09:46 PM »
Burham Quarry.  Low-geared to move extra heavy loads?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1626 on: April 21, 2020, 01:57:32 PM »
Greenhithe

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1625 on: April 21, 2020, 01:43:16 PM »
Borstal Cement Works near Rochester ?


Gear drive is more powerful / torque with less losses in the drive.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1624 on: April 21, 2020, 12:39:18 PM »
Not Frindsbury, but that is cement dust.  Why would there be a geared drive?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1623 on: April 21, 2020, 12:07:40 PM »
Frindsbury Quarry / Cement Works?......Crown & Quarry?

Tank locomotive with Geared drive...maybe used in the new tunnel with an adverse gradient to the neighbouring quarry?

Made in Medway  Aveling & Porter loco