Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway

The Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway (BWLR) is located near the villages of Wormshill and Bredgar in Kent, just south of Sittingbourne. It is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway about three-quarters mile (1.2 km) in length.
The BWLR is a private line which has been built up as a hobby by a group of friends since the early 1970s. It is a fully operational line, operated to a high standard, with a station, engine sheds and workshops at Warren Wood station and a smaller station at the other end of the line, known as Stony Shaw.
The line is open to the public on the first Sunday of each month and most Wednesdays throughout the summer to raise money to maintain and manage the collection. On open days a number of other attractions are on display including a model railway, a Dutch street organ, a traction engine a steam roller, a Victorian beam engine, an American fire department Ladder truck and a range of old tractors and cars.
The Tearoom is open Wednesday thru Sunday (9:00 - 15:00) throughout the year offering a selection of teas, coffees, cakes, sandwiches snacks and lunches.
In June 2011, the railway appeared briefly in a segment filmed for the BBC's Saturday Kitchen programme which aired on 18 June 2011.
==The Stations==
*Warren Wood Station
*Stony Shaw Station
==Rolling stock==
===Operational steam locomotives===
Manufacturer 	Works number
and year	Wheel
arrangement	Number and
name	Notes 	Photo
Arnold Jung 	3872/1931 	0-6-0WT	No. 2 Katie 	Used in sugar plantations in the Cameroons. Preserved in 1973 and acquired by the BWLR in 1980. Has flangeless centre driving wheels. 	
Hunslet Engine Co. 	1429/1922 	0-4-0ST	No. 3 Lady Joan	Used in north Wales slate quarries until 1967. Has been used at Woburn Abbey and Knebworth. Acquired by the BWLR in 1996. 	150px
W.G. Bagnall 	2088/1919 	0-4-0ST	No. 4 Armistice	One of two locomotives used on the Birmingham, Tame and Rea District Drainage Board Railway Armistice, was preserved in 1961 and renamed Lady Luxborough. Acquired in 1991 by the BWLR and restored in 1992, regaining her original name. 	150px
Orenstein & Koppel 	5668/1912 	0-4-0WT	No. 6 Eigiau 	Ex Penrhyn Quarry Railway. Sold to Bressingham in 1963. Acquired by the BWLR in 1995. 	150px
Decauville 	246/1897 	0-4-2T 	No. 7 Victory 	Used at the Invicta Sugar Mill, Giru, Queensland, Australia. Sold in 1963 and used on a tourist railway. Acquired by the BWLR in 1984. 	150px
Orenstein and Koppel	12722/1936	0-4-0WT	No. 8 Helga 	Used at various construction sites in northern Germany until 1957. To UK in 1970 and used on the Brecon Mountain Railway. Acquired by the BWLR in 1999. 	
John Fowler & Co. 	13573/1912	0-4-2T 	No, 10 Zambezi 	Originally built to (19+3⁄4 in) gauge. Used on Sena Estates railway, Mopeia, Mozambique, hauling sugar. Worked until 1965 then became derelict. To UK in 1998. regauged to 2 ft (610 mm) gauge. Steam test passed in 2009 and entered service in 2010.	
===Steam locomotives undergoing overhaul or restoration===
Manufacturer 	Works number
and year	Wheel
arrangement	Number and
name	Notes 	Photo
John Fowler & Co.	18800/1930	0-6-0WT	No. 9 Limpopo	Ex Sena Sugar Estates, No. 17. Used at sugar mill in Mopeia, Mozambique. Acquired by the BWLR in 1998 and restored to working order, entering service in 2003.	150px
===Operational diesel locomotives===
Manufacturer 	Works number
and year	Wheel Arrangement	Number and
name	Notes 	Photo
Baguley-Drewry	3775/1983	4wDH 	No. 5 Bredgar 	Worked on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) lines at MoD Milford Haven. Acquired in 1995 and regauged to 2 ft (610 mm) gauge.	150px
Andrew Barclay	765/1988 	4wDM 	No. 14 Milstead	MoD No. NG54, Ex RAF Chilmark. 	
Schöma 	5239/1991	4wDM 	Jenny 	Used during the construction of the Channel Tunnel 	
===Diesel locomotives undergoing overhaul or restoration===
Manufacturer	Works number
and year	Wheel
arrangement	Number and name	Notes 	Photo
Motor Rail 	9869/1953	4wDM	No. 12 Bicknor 	Supplied new to Great Ouse River Authority, Ely. In service until 1977. Acquired by the BWLR in 2010 from The Hop Farm Country Park, Beltring.	
Motor Rail 	7073/1936	4wPM	No. 13 Lyne 	 	
==Locomotives no longer at the railway==
Manufacturer 	Works number and year	Wheel Arrangement	Number and name	Notes 	Photo
L. Schwartzkopff	9124/1927 	0-4-0WT 	No. 1 Bronhilde	Used at the Norddeutsche Affinerie copper smelting works, Hamburg. Sold to Bressingham in 1976. Acquired in 1979, it was the first steam locomotive at the BWLR. Sold to Richmond Light Railway.	150px
Henschel & Sohn 	29582/1956 	0-6-0WT 	No. 105 Siam 	Worked on a sugar plantation in Chonburi Province, Thailand. Has visited Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge. Sold to a railway in Latvia. 	150px
Hudswell Clarke 	DM1366/1965 	0-6-0DM 	15 	Ex National Coal Board Harden Colliery and Seaham Colliery. Sold to South Tynedale Railway in 1990. To BWLR in 2006. 	150px
==Other exhibits==
Other exhibits to be found at the BWLR include:
===Beam engine===
thumb|Beam engineAn 1870 beam engine built by Thomas Horn to a design by James Watt. One of two supplied to a waterworks at Ashford. Acquired in 1988 and restored to working order.
==Twinning==
The BWLR is twinned with the Chemin de Fer de La Valée de l'Ouche (CFVO), Bligny-sur-Ouche, Côte-d'Or, France.
== Gallery ==
File:Lady Joan No. 3 Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway - 42490953942.jpg
File:Lady Joan No. 3 Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway - 40734655140.jpg
File:BWLR1.jpg|Bronhilde pulling into Stony Shaw station
File:Lady Joan No. 3 Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway - 28669509928.jpg
File:Lady Joan No. 3 Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway.jpg
File:Locomotives outside shed, Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway (geograph 5858494).jpg
== See also ==
*British narrow gauge railways
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Category:Preserved Railways
Category:Heritage Railways
Category:Narrow-gauge locomotives
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