Richboro Port railway station
Richboro Port | |
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General information | |
Location | Dover (district) England |
Coordinates | 51°17′30″N 1°20′43″E / 51.2917°N 1.3454°E |
Grid reference | TR333600 |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | East Kent Light Railway |
Key dates | |
c. 1925 | Construction |
Richboro Port railway station was constructed by the
History
In 1911, the
To complete the line, bridges would have to be constructed over the River Stour and the
Although a passenger platform was erected at Lord Greville's Wharf (also known as Richborough Port), no passenger trains ever called there nor were authorised to do so.[14][15][16] The East Kent may have only considered seeking authorisation if the Port had developed,[17] which would have justified the improvements which would undoubtedly have been required by the Ministry to Transport to be made to the Stour bridge.[14] An intermittent passenger service between Eastry and Sandwich Road had been introduced between 1925 and 1 November 1928, the intention having been to extend the service through to the new platform at Richboro Port if this was seen as having traffic potential.[12][18][16] In the event, as only piecemeal development took place at the Port, the East Kent had no real incentive to encourage a passenger service on the branch.[14] The short platform was built of cinders with a wooden sleeper face and a white-painted wooden platform edging.[19] Passenger facilities consisted of a plank seat, nameboard, two lamp posts and a fence running along the back which was made of wooden posts and, allegedly, old locomotive tubes.[19][20] The station's nameboard indicated that it was called Richboro Port;[15][21][20] no tickets are believed to have been printed for it.[22] The station was in a desolate and windswept location and had the distinction of being the only East Kent station not to be situated on Railways No. 1 and No. 2.[22] Certain sources give the intended opening date of the station as c. 1925[23] but this could be a reference to the date of erection of the platform.[24]
The East Kent's Richborough branch was lifted in 1952,
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Sandwich Road Line never opened to passenger traffic |
East Kent Light Railway | Terminus |
Present day
No traces of the station remain.[28] The station site is now comprised in the car park of Pfizer Global Research and Development on the west side of the A256 Ramsgate Road.[28]
References
Notes
- ^ 1938 2" to 1 mile Ordnance Survey map
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), pp. 31, 37.
- ^ White (1987), p. 37.
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), pp. 31–32.
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), pp. 69, 107.
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), p. 80.
- ^ a b Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), p. 123.
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), pp. 96–97.
- ^ a b Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), p. 155.
- ^ Mitchell & Smith (1989), fig. 91.
- ^ Course (1976), p. 88.
- ^ a b Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), pp. 157–158.
- ^ Mitchell & Smith (1989), fig. 95.
- ^ a b c Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003b), p. 315.
- ^ a b Mitchell & Smith (1989), fig. 92.
- ^ a b White (1987), p. 39.
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003a), p. 158.
- ^ Course (1976), p. 87.
- ^ a b Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003b), p. 332.
- ^ a b Course (1976), p. 104.
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003b), p. 331.
- ^ a b Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003b), p. 329.
- ^ Croughton, Kidner & Young (1982), p. 148.
- ^ Quick (2009), p. 330.
- ^ Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003b), p. 243.
- ^ a b Lawson Finch & Garrett (2003b), p. 316.
- ^ White (1987), p. 156.
- ^ a b "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.
Sources
- Course, Edwin (1976). The Railways of Southern England: Independent and Light Railways. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-0490-6.
- Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, R.W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations. Salisbury: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-281-1.
- Lawson Finch, M.; Garrett, S.R. (2003a). The East Kent Railway: The History of the Independent Railway. Vol. 1. Usk: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-853616-08-6.
- Lawson Finch, M.; Garrett, S.R. (2003b). The East Kent Railway: Nationalisation, the Route, Rolling Stock and Operation. Vol. 2. Usk: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-853616-09-4.
- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (June 1989). The East Kent Light Railway. Country Railway Routes. Midhurst, Sussex: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-61-4.
- Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: OCLC 612226077.
- White, H.P. (1987) [1976]. Forgotten Railways: South-East England. Forgotten Railways Series. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-946537-37-2.