The second of two volumes covering the railways of the South East, this
book focuses on Kent. It details a wide range of different trains
including heavy aggregate, inter-regional passenger, test trains, the
Orient Express, newspaper and mail trains, railtour excursions,
engineers' trains, weed killers and intermodal, steel, coal and nuclear
flask traffic. An extensive range of locomotive classes in different
liveries, many now consigned to history, are shown at work on main lines
and branch lines in the 'Garden of England'. Over 180 color photographs,
the vast majority of which have never been published before, serve to
illustrate the variety found in a corner of the country often regarded
as a mainly multiple unit commuter carrying environment. The pictures
are complemented by informative captions detailing each particular train
and its working along with some of the infrastructure found along the
routes covered.