originally conceived and built in the 1920s by millionaire racing car drivers Captain Jack Howey and Count Louis Zborowski
Count Louis Zborowski had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. However, he was killed in a motor racing accident at the Monza Grand Prix on 19 October 1924 before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.
It's been a while since I went to the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway but its still going strong today and there is a project to make a replica of the armoured train made of steel going on at the moment to replace the wooden replica that was made in the 90's.
ReplyDeleteI've put a link to the project below but have scanned through it and they think the original armoured train was made from metal scavenged from U-118 which was beached in Hastings in 1919.
https://www.rhdrsa.org/armoured-wagon-project/