X-Nico

unusual facts about South Eastern and Chatham Railway



Meldon Quarry

A replacement locomotive was required, and after trials with a B4 0-4-0T and an O2 0-4-4T, a SECR class T 0-6-0T no 1607 became the regular power unit, being renumbered 500S; it worked there from September 1938 until 1948.


see also

Maunsell

Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway

N class

SECR N class, a type of steam locomotive designed in 1914 for use on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR)

SECR R class

LCDR R1 class – a class of 0-4-4T locomotives built by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway to modified LCDR design in 1900