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The Colonel Stephens Museum - Locomotives of the East Kent Railway (1351 words) |
 | The cost of £3050 was too much for the impecunious EKR so although Stephens selected the loco she was actually purchased by the East Kent Colliery and the Golford and Waldershare Colliery jointly, and bore a plate to that effect. |
| At first known by her IWandD number and apparently working on the EKR for free an arrangement was formalised in November 1920 and a hire purchase agreement signed backdated to the 22 April. |
| Dick Cash, a long-time EKR employee, reported that she rarely went further up the line than Eythorne as she had a tendency to derail on the sharp curve out of Eastry (an odd fact that in view of her later use on the ferocious curves at Lyme Regis). |
| The Railways of Canada Archives -- Eastern New Brunswick's Railway History From VIA Rail's Ocean Limited (6022 words) |
| Kent Junction, fourteen miles north of Adamsville, is where the Kent Northern, a 26.5 mile line to the village of Richibucto, had its wye junction with the Intercolonial. |
| The 75 miles of railway from Derby Junction to the crossing of the N.T.R. at McGivney was abandoned in January, 1985. |
| This was the junction with the Caraquet Railway. |
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