Steam in Kent (DVD)

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Steam operations in and around the county of Kent both past and present. The DVD begins with scenes from the festival of steam held in 1999 and 2000 at Maidstone West. We then go back in time to the 1950s with steam working at Tonbridge, Maidstone West, Gravesend West and the former Hawkhurst and Westerham branch. Next are scenes dating even further back, in 1938 at Sandling Junction, along with the branch to Folkestone Harbour. The Kent & East Sussex Railway is featured with scenes from 1927 and 1952, followed by reopening in preservation during 1974, and the extension to Bodiam in 2000. Also featured are the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in the 1960s, Swanscombe Paper Mills in the 1970s, the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, and a ride on the resident steam locomotive Howe at Aylesford Paper Mills. More industrial scenes show Snowdown Colliery and Bettershanger Colliery in 1970, and the preserved East Kent Railway. The DVD finishes with some of the steam excursions that have worked in and around Kent in the early 2000s.