page_title: Headcorn and Maidstone Junction Light Railway
section_title: Locomotive
hierarchical_section_title: Headcorn and Maidstone Junction Light Railway / Locomotive
caption_attribution_description: English: Steam Tank Engine "Hecate" No: 949. Photographed at Eastleigh Near Southampton 1950. Southern 0-8-0Tank Loco 949. Built in 1904. This engine was allocated British Railways No. 30949, but scrapped in 1950 without being renumbered. In 1932, as it was too heavy for the line the Kent and East Sussex Railway exchanged it with the Southern Railway for a Beattie 0-4-0ST. Deutsch: Southern Railway Tenderlokomotive Nr. 949 „Hecate“, Achsformel 0-8-0 (UIC-Schema: D), in Eastleigh bei Southampton 1950. Die Lokomotive wurde 1904 gebaut, wurde zunächst auf der East Kent Railway eingesetzt, später, als sie zu schwer für die Linie geworden war, wurde sie mit Southern Railway gegen eine Beattie 0-4-0 Tenderlokomotive getauscht. Die Lokomotive ging im Zuge der Verstaatlichung der Britischen Eisenbahn als Nr. 30949 in den Bestand von British Railways über, wurde aber bis zur Verschrottung 1950 nicht umnummeriert.
context_page_description: The Headcorn & Maidstone Junction Light Railway was a proposed railway in Kent. An Act of Parliament authorised its construction, but only a short branch at Tovil, opened to goods only, was built.
context_section_description: In 1904, an 0-8-0 tank locomotive was purchased for the K&ESR. It is widely thought that this locomotive was purchased to work on the H&MJLR. The builder was Hawthorn Leslie & Company (works number 2587/1904) and it became K&ESR No.4 Hecate, later Southern Railway No.949 and British Railways No.30949.
caption: Hecate at Eastleigh in 1950
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