Guess the Place

[pete.mason]

Cement works, Pilgims Rd on Swansconbe/ Northfleet border

[KeithG]

Swanscombe?

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

[MartinR]

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.

[John Walker]

Burham Quarry.  Low-geared to move extra heavy loads?

[pete.mason]

Greenhithe

[KeithG]

Borstal Cement Works near Rochester ?


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

[MartinR]

Not Frindsbury, but that is cement dust.  Why would there be a geared drive?

[KeithG]

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

[MartinR]

Here's a trickier one (unless you've read the same book I nicked it from).  "Guess The Place", and as a bonus what on earth is happening with the drive mechanism and what is the second Kent connection?

[Stewie]

Ah tres Bon Martin R, and you got the reference as well. Back to you 🤓

[Diapason]

Deal Castle?

[MartinR]

Looks like Deal Castle to me.  It might have been bitter that day, that's an iron not a brass monkey.

[Stewie]

That was unexpected, I changed my mind due to the number of tracks, the trucks which seemed to be filled with cement bags and the word '[font=]Rendezvous' on the notice board which couldn't have been a word used regularly at  a colliery.[/font]
[font=]Next one, a picture of my granddaughter during a rainy day out, looks a bit bleak but looking at the pile of neatly stacked cannon balls not that cold![/font]

[MartinR]

It's your second idea Stewie.  6 February 1990.  Narrow gauge, rack railway, propelling movements (up the rack) double overhead lines (in the "M"s above the track) plus interesting PW.  quite a lot of detail.  Over to you.

[Stewie]

Actually, looking at the dress more likely the Channel Tunnel works at Folkstone?