The Torry Hill Railway is a private miniature railway with the unusual gauge of 9 inches () at

Torry Hill Torry Hill, in Kent, England, is the family estate of the Leigh-Pemberton (formerly Pemberton Leigh) line. It is on the boundary of Frinsted and Milstead, approximately 3 km due southwest of Kingsdown hamlet. The estate typifies a style of ...

near Frinsted in the

Borough of Maidstone The Borough of Maidstone is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. Its administrative centre is Maidstone, the county town of Kent. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Maid ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

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. It operates only occasionally.

History

The Torry Hill Railway was built in the 1930, as many British narrow gauge estate railways. It is maintained and occasionally operated by a group of volunteers. There is still a turntable, a 100 ft (30 m) long tunnel and a viaduct that has been built from realistically scaled miniature bricks. It is owned by the heirs of Sir

Robert Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown Robert "Robin" Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, (5 January 1927 – 24 November 2013) was a British Peer and banker, who served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1993. Education and career Leigh-Pemberton was educated at St ...

. The tracks of the Torry Hill Railway lie on private property, which is not accessible by public footpaths or any right of way.Dave Willi
''Narrow Gauge Railway Society visit to the Torry Hill Railway 20th September 2014.''
Published on 1 October 2014. Downloaded on 12 April 2017.

Photos

Torry Hill.jpg, Torry Hill Bridge over a footpath, Timbold Hill - geograph.org.uk - 16842.jpg, Bridge over a footpath Snaking through the woods (geograph 1980747).jpg, Dual track in the forest Torry Hill Miniature Railway - geograph.org.uk - 1223181.jpg, turntable

Literature

* Robert Turcan
''Sittingbourne Through Time.''
Revised Edition. Amberley Publishing Limited, 2015.

External links

* John Zebedee
PhotoStream auf Flickr

References

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