• The Brockham Railway Museum was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway based at the site of the Brockham Limeworks, near Dorking, Surrey. When it closed...
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    largely on the collection of the former Brockham Museum (relocated here in 1982). There is special interest in railway material from the Dorking Greystone...
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  • 2012. Brockham Railway Museum, Dorking, Surrey – closed 1982 (Stock moved to Amberley Museum Railway, West Sussex) Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway, East...
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    been used as a spares donor for the museum's other Hudson Hunslet locos. Also in 1982, the Brockham Railway Museum in Surrey closed down and moved its...
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    to the Brockham Railway Museum, a collection of narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock. A short demonstration line was built. The museum closed in...
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    minor railway locomotives. Vol. 16EL. Melton Mowbray: Industrial Railway Society. 2012. ISBN 978 1 901556 78 0. "Brockham Narrow Gauge Railway Museum". Narrow...
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  • was purchased by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society when the tramway closed and moved to the Brockham Railway Museum for preservation. Edward Hume (1841–1921)...
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    events in British railway history happened on narrow-gauge railways including the first use of steam locomotives, the first public railway and the first preserved...
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    former quarry at Brockham, Surrey, only a few miles from Betchworth, to build a museum dedicated to industrial and narrow gauge railways. Townsend Hook...
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    railway. Polar Bear built by W. G. Bagnall (1905) works no. 1781. The railway's second locomotive. Preserved in 1967 at the Brockham Railway Museum,...
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    Maenofferen quarry (category Ffestiniog Railway)
    Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales and one of the major users of the Ffestiniog Railway. It continues to produce crushed slate on a limited scale under the ownership...
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    Polar Bear (steam locomotive) (category Groudle Glen Railway)
    for the Groudle Glen Railway. It is now preserved and runs on the Amberley Museum Railway. Polar Bear was sold to the Brockham Museum Trust in 1967. In 1982...
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    Coast Light Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway built in 1960 using equipment from the Nocton Potato Estate railway. It was originally...
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    haulage wagon and lifting gantry preserved at Brockham museum in 1966, and now at the Amberley Museum Railway. More rarely, standard-gauge vehicles are carried...
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    Company Limited – via Wikisource. Additional Manuscript of the British Museum, 6167, fol. 167 cited by the compilers of the Victoria County History (1911)...
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    following year to Pixham. In 1972 the club relocated to the Big Field at Brockham as tenants of the National Trust, which had acquired the field in 1966...
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    of the Dorking to Reigate railway line at the bottom of the hill in 1849, enabled new quarry faces to be opened at Brockham and Betchworth. Sidings were...
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    The Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge industrial railway that connected the Cliffe Hill granite quarry to the nearby London...
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    preserved on the West Somerset Railway. They currently run at the Stephenson Railway Museum and the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. 2995 was sold to NCB at...
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    selling around $5bn worldwide annually). Beecham Research Laboratories at Brockham Park in 1959 discovered meticillin (or methicillin), the first semi-synthetic...
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  • 1770 (10 Geo. 3. c. 94) Warwick Roads Act 1791 (31 Geo. 3. c. 98) Hay Railway Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. cxxii) Vauxhall Bridge Act 1809 (49 Geo. 3. c....
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    into the Earlswood Brook. From Sidlow, the Mole turns northwest towards Brockham. A number of minor tributaries join the river from the west and are typically...
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    The Great Bush Railway is a private, 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge running round the edge of Tinkers Park, Hadlow Down, Sussex. The railway is operated by...
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    V's Silver Jubilee". Wokingham Virtual Museum. "The Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary 1935". Brockham History. Owens, Edward (15 October 2018)...
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    16 miles (26 km) to the southwest. London is 52 miles (84 km). Nearby Brockham Hill, situated 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) northeast of Alton, rises to...
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  • Media and Internet. Robert James Thomas. For services to the community in Brockham, Surrey during Covid-19. Sharon Ann Thomas. Foster Carer. For services...
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    Ltd". The Industrial Railway Record (139). Birmingham: Industrial Railway Society: 394. ISSN 0537-5347. "Narrow Gauge Railway Museum article on the Buckley...
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    Betchworth (section Railways)
    relates to the formerly detached part in the west that is now between Brockham and Dorking. Part of the village was reclassified in the 13th century....
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    Current Dormansland Guildford (Bethel) Redhill (Station Road) Ripley Former Brockham Green Farnham Outwood Smallfield Calvinistic Former Charlwood Epsom Eastern...
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    Current Dormansland Guildford (Bethel) Redhill (Station Road) Ripley Former Brockham Green Farnham Outwood Smallfield Calvinistic Former Charlwood Epsom Eastern...
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