Rolling stock Kent and East Sussex Railway

1 rolling stock

1.1 independent company

1.1.1 steam locomotives
1.1.2 railcars
1.1.3 hired or loaned locomotives
1.1.4 passenger stock
1.1.5 freight stock
1.1.6 non-rail vehicles


1.2 british railways
1.3 heritage

rolling stock
the independent company
steam locomotives

owned rother valley railway and/or kent & east sussex light railway.

note:

the order of scrapping of locomotives 7, 5, 6 (steam railcar), 1, 9, 2 , 8.

railcars

owned rother valley railway and/or kent & east sussex light railway.

hired or loaned locomotives

hired or loaned kent & east sussex light railway.

passenger stock

owned rother valley railway and/or kent , east sussex light railway.

freight stock

owned rother valley railway and/or kent , east sussex light railway.

non-rail vehicles

the k&esr owned number of non-rail vehicles, 1 of survives today.

horse bus - built in 1902 w j mercer, tenterden carriage works. operated under contract william hook & son until firm ceased trading in 1916. operated k&esr until withdrawn in 1924 , stored. became british railways property on nationalisation. exhibit @ national railway museum, york.
horse-drawn van , 2 drays. k&esr acquired horse-drawn van , 2 drays in 1916. these withdrawn in mid-1930s.
2 2-ton bedford lq lorries. 1 purchased in 1935 , second hire purchased in 1936, replacing horse-drawn vehicles. both vehicles passed british railways on nationalisation.

british railways

these locomotives worked on line between 1948 , 1961.

heritage