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	WHITSTABLE - LoveToKnow Article on WHITSTABLE
		N.N.W. of Canterbury, on the South Eastern and Chatham railway.
		The branch railway connecting Whitstable with Canterbury was one of the earliest in England, opened in 1830.
		There is also a considerable coasting trade in coal in conjunction with the South-Eastern and Chatham railway company, who are the owners of the harbour, which accommodates vessels of about 400 tons alongside the quay.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WH/WHITSTABLE.htm (1860 words)

	ASHI - LoveToKnow Article on ASHI
		It is pleasantly situated on a gen.tle eminence ai ar the confluence of the upper branches of the river Stour.
		The fertility of the pasture-land in Romney Mars the south and east of Ashford caused the cattle trade to increase It the latter half of the 18th century, and led to the establishment II a stock market in 1784.
		It is served by of e Chesapeake and Ohio (being a terminal of the Lexington and rr g Sandy Divisions) and the Norfolk and Western railways~ and it connected with Huntington, West Virginia, by an electric line.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AS/ASHI.htm (1276 words)

	Geoff Gamble Books
		DH 3 Locomotives of the South Eastern Railway by DL Bradley and pub by the RCTS in 1963.
		DH 4 Locomotives of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway by DL Bradley and pub by the RCTS in 1980.
		WA60 The Railways of the South Yorkshire Coalfield from 1880 by A L Barnett and published by the RCTS in 1984.
	www.gg-books.freeuk.com /secondhand.htm (9044 words)

	Signal Boxes of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some of the traditional South Eastern boxes continued to be erected, the last as late as 1906.
		Erected in 1905, this cabin was almost certainly a second-hand superstructure from a South Eastern Railway cabin, mounted on a new brick base.
		The South Eastern and Chatham became part of the Southern Railway in 1923.
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/sec.htm (207 words)

	MINT (PLANT) - LoveToKnow Article on MINT (PLANT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The great highway from Warsaw to Moscow crosses the government in the south, and its passage through the Berezina is protected by the first-class fortress of Bobruisk.
		Since the introduction of railways the commercial importance of the place, which formerly was slight, has begun to increase.
		It is served by the Sheppey light railway from Sheerness, 2 m.
	73.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MINT_PLANT_.htm (2780 words)

	South Eastern and Chatham Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) came about on 1 January 1899, when the South Eastern Railway joined with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway under a Management Committee composed of the directors of the two companies.
		The union is curious in that the two probably hated each other more than any other two companies in the UK.
		After the formation of the SECR three minor lines were built before the SECR became one of the constituent parts of the Southern Railway in 1923.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Eastern_and_Chatham_Railway (137 words)

	South East & Chatham Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The SECR was primarily a passenger railway feeding commuters into its London terminus at Charring Cross but although new improved carriages were introduced for longer haul work the inner London services were never very popular with passengers.
		SECR locomotives were originally two-tone green but this changed to an all over very dark grey (almost fl) during the First World War.
		The SECR had their own fleet of coal wagons, some were eight plank end door types and a suitable plastic kit is available to members of the N Gauge Society.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/00-app2/sr/secr.htm (1062 words)

	INDEX – by category
		This is the final device and illustrates in the centre the gateway of Tilbury fort flanked by the shields of London; Essex and the white horse of Kent.
		From the ex Caledonian Railway station, between Crianlarich and Oban, opened as “Tyndrum” in 1877 (to replace an earlier station nearby) and renamed by BR in 1953.
		Note The Barry Railway was renamed from the Barry Dock and Railway in 1891 and was grouped into the GWR in 1922.
	www.anjoco.f9.co.uk /sheffrail/may02/cat0502.htm (6278 words)

	Roll of Honour - Kent - Dover Marine Rail
		The railway station continued to be used until the 1990’s at which time it was decided to close the station.
		It was unveiled by R.H Cosmo-Bonsor the Chairman of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Managing Committee on the 28th October 1922.
		It was erected as a tribute to the 5,222 staff and employees of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway who served in His Majesty’s Colours during the Great War.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Kent/DoverMarine.html (655 words)

	Feeder Lines, pt 2
		The Southern Railway Group was comprised of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company; the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company; the London and South Western Railway Company; the South Eastern Railway; and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Company (joint fleet).
		The South Eastern and Chatham Railway Company was formed in 1899 by the merger of the fleets of the London, Dover and Chatham Railway and the South Eastern Railway.
		The Southern Railway / British Transport Commission was created in 1923 by the merger of the London and South Western Railway; London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/feederswest.html (2639 words)

	ROCHESTER (ENGLAND) - LoveToKnow Article on ROCHESTER (ENGLAND) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		E.S.E. of London by the South-Eastern and Chatham railway, contiguous to Chatham and Strood.
		(IQOI) 30,590, Chatham lies east of the city on the same bank of the river, while Strood is opposite, on the left bank, being connected with Rochester by a railway bridge and by an iron swing bridge, the latter occupying the site of a bridge which spanned the Medway before the Conquest.
		The ruins of Gundulph's Tower stand detached from and are earlier than the church; this tower was built by Bishop Gundulph probably as a defensive work for the eastern boundary of the city.
	14.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROCHESTER_ENGLAND_.htm (2748 words)

	Roll of Honour - Kent - Ashford Railway Works Rolls of Honour
		The South Eastern and Chatham Railway (CME’s department) Rolls of Honour bear testament to the enduring sacrifices made by the staff and employee’s of the Ashford Railway Works who served in His Majesty’s colours during the Great War.
		The Ashford Railway Works was of vital importance to the operation of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and indeed to the UK war effort as a whole.
		During the war years Maunsell continued to strive to modernise the railway with the introduction of the “N” class moguls and he re-built and modernised versions of the earlier “Wainwright” classes.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Kent/AshfordRail.html (440 words)

	SECR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We have in our possession over 11000 artefacts, many of which are irreplacable and would have been lost forever, dating from 1803 to the present day with a value in excess of £170,000.
		We are probably the largest railway preservation society without a permanent home
		Can you help to create a museum of the SECR to the present day, including 'Southern Electic', that also represents railway staff and their work?
	www.secr.org.uk (230 words)

	South Eastern & Chatham Railway Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Constituents of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway
		The South Eastern Railway was jointly managed with the London Chatham and Dover Railway from 1899 until grouping as the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies Joint Managing Committee and traded as the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SEandCR).
		South Eastern Railway (originally the London, Deptford and Dover Railway)
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /mickssrsource/tpagesrs/tsecrbutton.html (123 words)

	The South Eastern & Chatham Railway - A Potted History
		January 1899 the South Eastern and Chatham Companies’ Managing Committee (better known as the SEandCR) was formed by the union of the South Eastern Railway (SER) and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR).
		The railway, always short of capital was then forced, by SER obstruction to extend first to Dover (1861) and then to London Victoria in 1862; the railway’s name being changed to the London Chatham and Dover Railway in 1859.
		By the end of the war the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, which had had carried more than its fair share of the war effort, was in a good position for further development and reconstruction.
	www.southeasternandchathamrailway.org.uk /webpages/History.htm (908 words)

	BRH: Abbreviations and glossary
		Railway Companies often have long names, and if I were to write them out in full, there would be little room for anything else.
		The person who constructs the railway (or in some cases, sub-contracts the construction to others).
		In this history, the engineers are the civil engineers who designed the route that the railways would follow, and in some cases defined the architecture of the stations as well.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /members/cj.tolley/cjt-brha.htm (367 words)

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		It was either on the south side of the river, or on an island opposite the end of the meadow, now known as Magna Carta Island, that this early bulwark of freedom was granted by the king.
		Leaving Slough by the north end of the railway bridge, one turns first to the right and then to the left, and soon after leaving the uninteresting bricks and mortar of the town, one enters some of the most beautiful lanes in the home counties.
		The south wall of the nave and the north chapel are specially interesting on account of their frescoes.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/1/6/4/11642/11642.txt (19821 words)

	South Eastern & Chatham Railway - Services From Dover & Folkestone - Simplon Postcards
		This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the Folkestone services of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR).
		was built for the SECR in 1906, for use between Dover-Calais.
		Built for SECR in 1907 Folkestone / Dover - Calais / Boulogne, 1914-1918 taken over by Royal Navy, 1923 transferred to France.
	www.simplonpc.co.uk /SR_SECR1.html (256 words)

	SAN CRISTOBAL - LoveToKnow Article on SAN CRISTOBAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Both species are also abundant in Barbary, and have been believed to extend E. through Asia to India, in most parts of which country they seem to be only winter-visitants; but in 1880 M. Bogdanow pointed otit to the Academy of St Petersburg (Bulletsn, xxvii.
		164) a slight difference of coloration between eastern and western examples of what had hitherto passed as P. alchata; analogy would stiggest that a similar difference might be found in examples of P. arenarius.
		Two miles south-east of the town, near the villages of Cambridge Town and York Town, and the railway stations of Blackwater and Camberley on the South-Eastern and Chatham and South-Western lines, is the Sandhurst Royal Military College.
	75.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAN_CRISTOBAL.htm (1516 words)

	Catalog Report
		History of the this Kent railway line form Canterbury to Folkestone built by the SER and closed after the war.
		BOGIE CARRIAGES OF THE SOUTH EASTERN and CHATHAM RAILWAY.
		Includes a brief history of the railway to that date and an account of the new lines planned, mainly in Kent, along with the Directors' arguements to be used in Parliament against rival schemes (notably the North Kent Railway).
	www.martinbott.com /SR.htm (4131 words)

	Elham Valley Railway 1884-1947
		However, in 1947 the decision was taken to close the railway and by 1953 the rails were ripped up and many of the glorious buildings that adorned the railway properties were torn down.
		The railway museum is a journey back in time.
		It was built in the style of a South Eastern Clapperboard station and platform.
	www.elhamvalleylinetrust.org /1884-1947.htm (290 words)

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		They were also to investigate the cause of accidents, and, although such proceedings did not receive legal sanction until 1870, they conducted their first inquiry into an accident at Howden on the Hull and Selby Railway in August 1840.
		In the 1980's the Railway Inspectorate department was amalgamated with the Health and Safety Exeutive.
		Copies of the Railway Inspectorate reports are held at Public Record Office.
	www.geocities.com /bobrubie/rail.html (292 words)

	South Eastern Chatham Railway October 28 1922 War Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		South Eastern and Chatham Railway October 28 1922 War Memorial
		CosmoBonsor Chairman of the Managing Committee of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, on October 28 1922 unveiled the War Memorial which was erected at Dover Marine station to the 556 South Eastern and Chatham railwaymen who gave their lives in the Great War.
		The height from the platform to the top of the bronze is 18 ft. Behind the main monument is a Portland stone wall bearing the names, and the inscription, " 5,222 men of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway served in the War.
	www.doverpages.co.uk /railway_memorial.htm (158 words)

	SE&C lever frames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The South Eastern Railway built its own signal frames at its Angerstein works from as early as 1867.
		These were not totally dissimilar in style to the south Eastern frames - the lever stoke was equally short and awkward, but the quadrant plates were more conventional in being of steel with raised catch guides.
		The South Eastern and Chatham companies merged in 1899, but signalling continued to be managed separately for some while.
	www.signalbox.org /frames/se.htm (338 words)

	Map Chatham at Local.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CHATHAM street maps, Easy to use street maps of CHATHAM.
		The South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society (SECSOC) Map of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway From Peeps at Great Railways - The South East & Chatham Published by A & C Black 1912 to South Eastern and Chatham Railway Society Home Page
		Information: Village of Chatham Map The Chatham Chamber of Commerce map of the Village of Chatham is now available online.
	www.local.co.uk /Chatham/Map (476 words)

	Carriages on the Kent & East Sussex Railway - South Eastern & Chatham Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Carriages on the Kent and East Sussex Railway - South Eastern and Chatham Railway
		In October 1943 the Southern Railway sold the entire set of three coaches to the Longmoor Military Railway, No. 60 becoming AD 5312 and No. 61 AD 5311 in the Army lists.
		It's body construction is very similar to No 88 (SECR No 2947) but it was actually built as 3rd class five compartment 6 wheeler, although many of its fellows were converted to 4 wheelers.It came to the KandESR from the Spa Valley Railway in 1999 having previously been on the North Downs Railway.
	www.kesr.org.uk /carriages/secr.htm (1579 words)

	Catalog Report
		VG Account of the development of railways in the Sheffield/Rotherham/Doncaster areas to cope with the expansion of the Coalfield in the late 19th - early 20th centuries - especially the Great Central, Midland, NER and Hull and Barnsley.
		VG Good chronological account of the development of railways in the county.
		VG Excellent detailed history of these important colliery railways around Brampton, East of Carlisle which originated from early tramroads and were finally operated by the NCB.
	www.martinbott.com /RCTS.htm (1032 words)

	Uckfield Model Railway Club Layout "Leysdown P4" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Of the standard-gauge light railways of Kent, one of the most successful was the Sheppey Light Railway, conceived by the islanders in the 1890s and engineered by the well-known Holman F. Stephens.
		After being absorbed into the South Eastern and Chatham Railway the line was improved, enlarged and partly standardized.
		Rolling stock is varied at the present time and may not be truly typical of that which ran on the light railway.
	www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk /leysdownnf.html (399 words)

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		Art Poster Print - South Eastern and Chatham Railway by Vintage Print Size: 36 x 24 inches.
		Find all your favorite South Eastern and Chatham Railway posters, art prints and framed art at Printfinders.com, the Web's leading art retailer.
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	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p17229004 (203 words)

	Merstham signal box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At first glance, Merstham appears to be a typical South Eastern Railway weatherboard and sash window signal box, of the style illustrated at Edenbridge.
		However, it did not open until 1905, well into South Eastern and Chatham days, when most new boxes were built to the design illustrated at Dover Marine.
		Merstham was mid-way along the route that ran parallel to the London, Brighton and South Coast's main Brighton line (a train can be seen passing behind the box) to serve Redhill.
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/s/merstham.htm (262 words)

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