Gauge: 1ft 6in (460 mm), 2ft 6in (760mm)
The Chattenden and Upnor Railway also known as The Lodge Hill and Upnor Railway was a military railway on the banks of the Medway River in Kent.
The first line between Chattenden and Upnor was standard gauge and was constructed in about 1870 to serve an Army camp at Chattenden. In 1872 its trackbed was used to lay a 1ft 6 in gauge railway for use as a training line by the Royal Engineers based in the Barracks. Between 1875 and 1878 magazines were built at Chattenden by convict labour brought in from Chatham by the railway.
In 1891 the Admiralty took over from the Army full responsibility for supplying armaments to the Fleet and consequently Upnor Depot, the Tudor fort, and its associated depot on the shore of the River Medway were transferred from the War Office to the Admiralty, followed by Chattenden Barracks and the railway in 1904. By that time an extensive new armaments depot had been built at Lodge Hill and the railway line had been re-gauged to 2ft 6in. The Admiralty took over the railway system in 1906 and the RE Railway School moved to Longmoor in Hampshire.
The line was officially titled in 1906 “The Lodge Hill and Upnor Railway” and it was used for the carriage of munitions discharged from warships entering Chatham Naval Dockyard for repair or refit. The railway took the ammunition inland from Upnor Pier to magazines at Lodge Hill. There was also a timetabled service for naval staff taking in Chattenden Barracks, the railway workshops, engine sheds and stores. The line closed completely in 1961.
A wide range of rolling stock types was hauled by fourteen different steam locomotives and later diesels. Battery electric locomotives were used for shunting ammunition wagons on the sidings.
1ft 6in gauge 1873-1885
| Number / Name | Manufacturer | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burgoyne | Manning, Wardle & Co. No. 448 of 1873 | 0-4-0ST | Scrapped or sold |
2ft 6in gauge
| Number / Name | Manufacturer | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sulphur | Yorkshire Engine Co. No. 404 of 1885 | 0-4-2T | Scrapped or sold by 1932 |
| Carbon | Yorkshire Engine Co. No. 405 of 1885 | 0-4-2T | Scrapped or sold by 1932 |
| Cheshire | W G Bagnall No. 1260 of 1890 | 0-4-2T | Scrapped 1932 |
| Lancashire | Yorkshire Engine Co. No. 462 of 1891 | 0-4-4T | Scrapped 1932 |
| Cumberland | Lowca Engineering Co. No. 220 of 1893 | 0-4-2T | Withdrawn 1904 and scrapped 1904 |
| Stafford / Eardley Wilmot | W G Bagnall No. 1513 of 1897 | 0-6-0T | Scrapped 1941 |
| Bagnall | W G Bagnall No. 1514 of 1897 | 0-6-0ST | Scrapped 1932 |
| Lord Kitchener | Yorkshire Engine Co. No. 711 of 1902 | 0-6-2T | Scrapped 1954 |
| Pioneer | Yorkshire Engine Co. No. 757 of 1903 | 2-6-2PT | To Woolmer Instructional Military Railway in 1905. Then to the Pentewan Railway in 1912. Scrapped 1922 |
| Ascension | Avonside Engine Co. No. 1480 of 1904 | 0-4-0T | To Admiralty, Hoo Fort, by 1928 |
| Chevallier | Manning, Wardle & Co. No. 1877 of 1915 | 0-6-2T | To the Bowaters Paper Railway in 1950 |
| Fisher | Fisher Dick Kerr & Co. No. 13996 of 1915 | 0-6-2T | Scrapped 1954 |
| Burnett Hall | Avonside Engine Co. No. 2070 of 1933 | 0-4-2T | Scrapped 1956 |
| Norbury | Peckett & Sons No. 1868 of 1934 | 0-4-2T | Scrapped 1955 |
| – | Hornsby & Co. No. 6234 of 1903 | 0-6-6-0PM | |
| Eardley Wilmot | McEwen Pratt & Co. of 1911 | 0-6-0PM | Offered for sale as scrap 1922 |
| Yard No. 92 | Hunslet Engine Co. No. 3301 of 1946 | 0-6-0DM | Sold 1961 |
| Yard No. 85 | Baguley Drewry No. 2263 of 1949 | 0-6-0DM | To RNAD Ernsettle in October 1960. Then to Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway |
| Yard No. 44 | Hibberd & Co. (Planet) No. 3687 of 1954 | 4wDM | To the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway |
| Yard No. 45 | Ruston & Hornsby | 4wDM | To RNAD Ernsettle in November 1960 |
| Catalogue Number | Railway | Type | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TYWRM:CU003 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | staff | train staff; no names |  |
| TYWRM:CU004 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | signal lever plate | signal lever frame plate; brass; marked 'SAXBY and FARMER; 4383; LONDON N.W.' |  |
| TYWRM:CU005 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | staff token | train staff token marked 'SECTION III.15' |  |
| TYWRM:CU006 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | lever frame | lever frame; rocker and gridiron; interlocking; by Saxby and Farmer; 1871 |  |
| TYWRM:CU007.1 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | signal | lattice post with two semaphores and weighted levers |  |
| TYWRM:CU007.2 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | signal parts | parts of lattice post with two semaphores and weighted levers | |
| TYWRM:CU008 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | signal arms | two signal semaphore arms from Westgate Box; Chattenden Depot. |  |
| TYWRM:CU009.1 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | signal lever plate | collection of 4 plates from West gate signal lever frame |  |
| TYWRM:CU009.2 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | signal lever plate | collection of 3 plates from West gate signal lever frame |  |
| TYWRM:CU010 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | points indicator | mechanically operated; electrically illuminated point indicator. |  |
| TYWRM:CU011 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | nameplate | "NORBURY nameplate from Peckett 1868; 2'6"" gauge 0-4-2 side tank loco from Chattenden and Upnor Ry" |  |
| TYWRM:CU012 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | rule book | Upnor-Lodge Hill Railway Regulations |  |
| TYWRM:CU013 | Chattenden and Upnor Railway | label | Instrument labels for Chattenden and Upnor Hard |  |
| Catalogue Number | Organisation | Type | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TYWRM:SUP065 | Ashover Light Railway | timetable | Facsimile of Ashover Light Railway pocket timetable card August 20 1925 until further notice |  |
| TYWRM:SUP416 | Ashover Light Railway | book | The Ashover Light Railway and Clay Cross Company by Ivor Gotheridge |  |
| TYWRM:SUP510 | Ashover Light Railway | book | The Ashover Light Railway by K.P.Plant |  |
| TYWRM:SUP526 | Ashover Light Railway | book | The Ashover Light Railway by Robert Gratton and Stuart R. Band |  |
| TYWRM:SUP592 | Ashover Light Railway | book | The Ashover Light Railway by I.Gotheridge and K.Plant 1955 |  |