Sellindge - Kent

[alexl92]

I often find myself researching steam locomotives which have survived into preservation but haven't yet been restored. Quite a number are described as being under restoration, stored or 'last seen' at Sellindge, in Kent. There never seems to be any more info than this... so I was wondering, what is this place? Sellindge seems to be a small village with literally 2 paragraphs on wikipedia. Is there a railway storage site there? A museum? Is it ex-MOD like Longmoor or Pigs Bay? Is it one rich, anonymous individual or is this one village just littered with the rusting hulks of Merchant Navies, industrial tanks and other railway oddballs that nobody's got round to restoring?

Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks!

 

[paul1609]

Its a farm about 1 mile north-east of the village that has half a dozen locomotives (possibly less now) stored or under restoration there. It used to also host the Sellindge Steam Fair which was a traction engine rally every year but that has been replaced (if not directly) by the weald of Kent event at Woodchurch.

 

[Flying Phil]

Certainly 35025 Brocklebank Line is still there, but I expect it will move now that the Southern Locomotive Limited (SLL) are taking it into their stable for the future. The SLL did quite a lot of restoration work at Sellinge in the past.

 

[Flying Phil]

Another Merchant Navy locomotive, 35011 General Steam Navigation, was moved to Sellinge in 2009 (from RAF Binbrook) and moved out in 2019 to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway at Blunsdon.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

One of the 4DD driving cars is there too

 

[gimmea50anyday]

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https://earth.app.goo.gl/ezZPxQ
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Looks like this is the farm