This is a very basic web page to introduce a narrow gauge railway that I have not seen mentioned anywhere else on the internet. It was located at a large saw mill and woodyard in East Grinstead Sussex called I believe "Stennings" and later "Stenwood" (the only present entry that I can find for this name is nowhere near East Grinstead). There was a retail shop which was styled like a chalet bungalow right beside the railway bridge on London Road. Behind this was a huge wood yard and saw mill with tree trunks cut into planks of drying hardwood, and the works behind. The whole area was concreted over.

Their narrow gauge rail network was very near the present railway station, ran parallel with and was served by a standard gauge siding off the East Grinstead high level station. The area of part of the works is now a car park and the approach road has been immortalised by calling it "Wood Street".

So how do I know about this railway? As a child we used to live in Maypole Road, East Grinstead, and on Saturday afternoons they used to sell somewhat warped wood off cuts cheaply. When I say cheaply I mean it, a 6 foot long 12 inch wide plank cost just 6d or 1/- ! Many the rabbit hutch I built with these pieces of timber dragged home scraping the pavement.

Afterwards we used to play on the railway - which was approximately 2' gauge and ran the entire length of the sawmill with several points and sidings - by pushing each other on one of the small 4 wheel wagons. As it was a weekend no locomotives were running and during the week access was impossible but I would guess that it was battery electric powered to save the chance of fire. There were a number of large transformers of the type used to recharge electric milk carts in the first "bay" on the left nearest to the retail shop.

I hope this very basic page will at least put this railway on the internet map. If you have any more details or perhaps even a picture then please do get in touch with the webmaster who will no doubt pass them on to me.

His email address is webmaster -at- horsted keynes dot com (no spaces and an @)!