Mini Train Smallest public Railway
Sorry, no airplanes this time I could not resist and filmed this little wonder during my visit to one of Kent s top tourist attractions It is Romney Hythe Dymchurch Railway The The railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain John Edwards Presgrave ( Jack ) Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. The RH DR has been drawing crowds since it opened in 1927 and now operates the most complete collection of onethird fullsized steam locomotives in the world. These small but perfectlyformed trains, take just over an hour to complete the full journey from Hythe to Dungeness but there are opportunities to get off and explore along the way too. The natural starting place for a journey on the RH DR is at its station in the historic and pretty town of Hythe. Its one of six along the track, which stretches 13 miles across the picturesque Romney Marsh to Dungeness, one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world, a place of otherworldly beauty and a designated
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