Research for the web site follows a similar line most of the time and this one is a good example

We initially started by "Google"ing GREENHITHE just to see what would come up. One of the references was to the Industrial Railway Society's site which included an article written in the early 60's. This provided us with both the details of the engine itself and with the intriguing fact that the engine had been transferred to  "the Hessle Chalk Quarry. near Hull, of G. & I. Earle Ltd., where it is still in use."

The next avenue was to chase down the Hessle Chalk Quarry but the all-powerful Google soon informed me that the chalk quarries in and around Hessle (Hull) were turned into parks and new industrial zones some time ago. G & I Earle are well gone and defeated even Google. However there's always a way forward so we dropped an email to Hessle Council who kindly passed our request onto the local historical society.

In the meantime we did a search on Greenhithe again and followed a link on the station to the Kent Rail site. Here we found some interesting background on local stations and the Lines  that would have run through Ingress Park. This is a great site and the web-master David Glasspool is putting togther a special page on Ingress Park which we will feature later.

Knowing that the "Greenhithe" was made by Peckett & Sons Ltd. of Bristol we started looking for a museum or a site with information. There are loads! Peckett & Sons are well represented on the web but sadly there is no more information on the "Greenhithe". 

Greg

So there we have it. The full stop at the end of the story

Amazingly, in a brief moment away from Google, whilst watching Midsommer Murders we noticed a small blue steam engine, possibly  called...Swanscombe. I feel another search coming on....