FACTS

This layout is based on a proposed, but never completed, extension to the East Kent Railway.

Owned by Colonel Stephens, the proposed line would have run from Wingham to Canterbury West via Stodmarsh, a distance of seven and a half miles.

Construction began at Wingham in 1919 but, in 1931, owing to the general strike, followed by the depression and the untimely death of the aforementioned Colonel, work on the line was cancelled.

FICTION

Construction of the line terminated at Stodmarsh due to financial pressures and a decline in both goods and passenger transport. The Southern Railway closed the line in 1940 but was forced to reopen it 3 years later to help with the War effort during the preparations for D-Day. It was used to transport men, munitions and machinery to the South coast embarkation ports.

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