Old Kiln Light Railway

Old Kiln Light Railway
"Altonia" at Reeds Road, 5 April 2015
Locale England
Preserved operations
Length 0.5 miles (0.8 km)
Preserved gauge 2 ft (610 mm)
Preservation history

The Old Kiln Light Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway located at the Rural Life Centre open-air museum in Tilford, near Farnham, Surrey. It has a collection of historic locomotives and rolling stock including two steam locomotives. It operates on Sundays and some Bank Holidays during the summer season.

History

Originally founded in the early 1970s as the "Wey Valley Light Railway", this line was located around a disused pumping station in Farnham

In 1982 the land was sold for redevelopment, and the railway track and equipment was relocated to the "Old Kiln Museum", now known as the "Rural Life Centre"

The line has since extended around the perimeter of the museum and a small stretch of track serves the museum's heritage timber yard demonstration area.

Steam locomotives

Name Builder Works No Built Wheel Notes
Pamela Hunslet 920 1906 0-4-0ST Built for Penrhyn Quarry North Wales
Elouise Orenstein & Koppel 9998 1922 0-6-0WT Supplied new to Servicios` Florestais, Portugal
Emmet 2005 0-4-T Currently on Loan from The Moors Valley Railway. this loco was built by Jim Haylock constructed on an O&K 0-4-0 1937 Diesel Loco

Internal combustion locomotives

Name Builder Works No Built Fuel Wheel Notes
"Altonia"Baguley 1769 1928 Diesel 0-4-0DH Lilleshall Abbey Woodland Railway

Alton Towers Park Railway

Motor Rail 8981 1946 Diesel 4wDM Midhurst Whites

Re-Gauged to 2 ft (610 mm)

"Phoebe"Motor Rail 8887 1944 Diesel 4wDM War Department
"Eagle"Motor Rail 5713 1936 Diesel 4wDM Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd

Fitted with Dorman 2RB Engine

"Fido"Motor Rail 5297 1931 Petrol 4wPM Weydon Lane sand pits in Farnham
"Sandrock"Ruston & Hornsby 177639 1936 Diesel 4wDM County Borough of Derby
"Red Dwarf"Ruston & Hornsby 181820 1936 Diesel 4wDM Severn Trent Water Authority
"Norden"Ruston & Hornsby 392117 1956 Diesel 4wDM Contractor locomotive for Hadley Wood tunnelling scheme for British Rail

Worked on the Fayles Tramway at Norden in Dorset

Currently on loan to Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum.

"Corbiere"FC-Hibberd 2528 1941 Diesel 4wDM War Department, Ministry Of Defense, Liphook
Moës Unknown 1955 Diesel 4wDM Belgian brickworks, in Rumpst
Hudson Hunslet HE-1944 1939 Diesel 4wDM Enfield Steel Rolling Mill

Basingstoke Canal restoration

"Champion"Hunslet AD36 1971 Diesel 4wDH Lydd Ranges in Kent
"Wey valley"Hunslet AD37 1971 Diesel 4wDH Lydd Ranges in Kent

Rebuilt in 1988 by Andrew Barclay

"Weyfarer"Hunslet AD38 1971 Diesel 4wDH Lydd Ranges in Kent
"Liz" Wickham 3031 1941 Petrol 4wPM Converted from unmanned target trolley

Single cylinder Petter engine

"Sue" Wickham 2981 1941 Petrol 4wPM Converted from unmanned target trolley

850cc Reliant engine

Awards

The OKLR received the "Surrey Industrial History Group Conservation" award in 1994 [1] [2]

References

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Coordinates: 51°11′01″N 0°46′29″W / 51.1836°N 0.7746°W / 51.1836; -0.7746


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