The East Kent Railway: The Line That Ran to Nowhere

The East Kent Railway was one of Britain's less well known light railways, a part of the Colonel Stephens group of lines, the East Kent Railway was meant to open up the newly discovered Kent coal field and help to make its shareholders wealthy, however things took a different turn, when the projected colliery's along the line did not materialise the way the promoters had first envisaged.

The only colliery to produce quantities of coal being Tilmanstone near Shepherdswell, which opened in 191...