Help needed - Steam Locomotive in Garden outside Canterbury

Hi All,

I have been thinking where my love of steam trains came from…. and then it dawned on me it was when I was in the car with my mum around the age of 4 we came across a steam locomotive in some nice chaps garden just outside Canterbury (Stodmarsh Rd).

Now I am hoping someone can tell me which loco it was and where it is now? Somewhere I have a newspaper cutting about it but it would take months to find it! I have a feeling it was a war department tank engine but I could be completely wrong.

Many thanks.

 

Orenstein & Koppel 2 foot gauge "Elsa" owned by the Rev Ted Hamer. I last saw it in 2008 stored at Preston Services.

 

Cheers Antony, a quick internet search turned up this page http://www.railwaysafrica.com/vn/2012/09/17/ted-hamer/

Thanks, yes I was wrong thinking it was a war department engine (Oh and standard gauge) but I suppose I was only small at the time.

Now I have seen a picture its definitely the same engine….. Its amazing what you can remember when you are four!

Does anyone know if this is still at Preston?

 

This is the best I know of: http://www.uklocos.com/final-results.asp?action=display&Id=3280

I didn't know Ted had died, sorry to hear that, his writings in the magazines were always very enjoyable.

 

Similar locomotives can be found on the Bredgar & Wormshill railway near Sittingbourne in Kent.

 

So to drag this back up again, but is Elsa now permanently at Exmoor? http://uklocos.com/final-results.asp?action=display&id=1733