Spa Valley Railway
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The Spa Valley Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway that runs between Tunbridge Wells, High Rocks, Groombridge, and Birchden crossing the Kent and East Sussex border, a distance of 4 miles. Its headquarters is at Tunbridge Wells West railway station. It is intended to extend the line to Eridge railway station to link with the Oxted Line. The railway holds a number of special event days, including a Day out with Thomas (the tank engine) on 4 weekends of the year, Santa Specials, and both steam and heritage diesel weekends.
[edit] Locomotives
- Steam Locomotives
- LB&SCR 0-6-0T Class A1X "Terrier" no. 50 Whitechapel
- LMS 0-6-0T Class 3F "Jinty" no. 47493
- London North Eastern Railway (LNER) 0-6-0ST J94 no. 68077 – under restoration
- Peckett 0-6-0ST works no. 1636 “Fonmon”
- Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST works no. 2315 “Lady Ingrid”
- Fablok, Chrzanow (Poland) TKh 0-6-0T works no. 3135 “Spartan” – under restoration
- Fablok, Chrzanow (Poland) TKh 0-6-0T works no. 2944 “Hotspur” – awaiting restoration
- Robert Stephenson & Hawthorne (RSH) 0-6-0T works no. 7846 “North Downs” – under restoration
- Bagnall works 0-6-0ST No. 2193 “Topham” – awaiting restoration
- Robert Stephenson & Hawthorne (RSH) 'Ugly' 0-6-0ST Works No. 7668 “Samson” – under restoration
- Diesel Locomotives
- Diesel Multiple Units
- Electrical Multiple Units
- BR Class 489 unit 9104
- London Underground T Stock unit 2749+2758
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