The Guilford Tramway was a narrow gauge industrial railway

Industrial railway

An industrial railway is a type of railway that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or military site...

 that served a golf club in Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in the first half of the twentieth century.

History

The St. George's Golf Club was founded in 1887 near the Kent resort town of Sandwich

Sandwich

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. It was poorly served by local transportation. A freight-only tramway was constructed to take freight from a wharf on the River Stour

River Stour, Kent

The River Stour is the river in Kent, England that flows into the English Channel at Pegwell Bay. Above Plucks Gutter, where the Little Stour joins it, the river is normally known as the Great Stour. The upper section of the river, above its confluence with the East Stour at Ashford is sometimes...

 to the club.

The line was principally used to carry construction materials used to build the mansions that sprung up around the hotel. The line fell into disuse during the First World War, although it was occasionally used to serve the various army camps in the area. The line is believed to have closed in 1930.

Locomotives

Name	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
Waldershare Park	Manning Wardle Manning Wardle Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.- Precursor companies :The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca, in Holbeck, Leeds,...	0-4-0ST	1903	1611	Survived the closure of the railway, scrapped around 1950