Kew Bridge Steam Museum

Many Victorian waterworks had their own railway. At Kew Bridge this is demonstrated by a short two-foot gauge line featuring the Alice class Quarry Hunslet “Cloister” (542 of 1891) built new for the Dinorwic quarry and now owned by the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust. The museum's railway is inspired by the Hampton to Kempton Park coal railway built and operated by the Metropolitan Water Board between 1916 and 1946. Coal was delivered by barge to the MWB wharf on the river Thames at Hampton and moved by three steam locomotives to the boilerhouses of the Hampton and Kempton Park waterworks. The engines were built by the Kerr Stuart Locomotive Company and were named "Hampton", "Kempton" and "Sunbury". None of the engines have survived.

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