No mention of the tunnel. Here it is. The line closed in 1952 and in the 1960s the University of Kent at Canterbury was built above the tunnel. Unfortunately in 1974 this led to the collapse of part of the northern tunnel beneath the campus. The building above ironically included the engineering faculty! The portion of the tunnel affected was infilled with a small amount of concrete and a larger amount of ash.
In the 80,s i remember the station platform still being there before they built the oysters retirement flats and the original railway crossing gate was still at south street road crossing. used to use part of the line in whitstable as the school cross country course
Walked this line as a young lad back in the late sixties. I think it had two claims of fame, one was the oldest rail bridge, the first railway tunnel and the first official passenger line. Though I must admit my memory isn’t what it was so please correct me on these details.
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No mention of the tunnel. Here it is. The line closed in 1952 and in the 1960s the University of Kent at Canterbury was built above the tunnel. Unfortunately in 1974 this led to the collapse of part of the northern tunnel beneath the campus. The building above ironically included the engineering faculty! The portion of the tunnel affected was infilled with a small amount of concrete and a larger amount of ash.
In the 80,s i remember the station platform still being there before they built the oysters retirement flats and the original railway crossing gate was still at south street road crossing. used to use part of the line in whitstable as the school cross country course
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The rails ere still embeded in the tarmac in 1968 at the harbour gates
Walked this line as a young lad back in the late sixties. I think it had two claims of fame, one was the oldest rail bridge, the first railway tunnel and the first official passenger line. Though I must admit my memory isn’t what it was so please correct me on these details.
Can you find ghost train fron Salisbury to Bournemouth via downton please
2 make that 3.