Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Around the middle of 1940 a stretch of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, about 400m long, and extending between two railblocks, was augmented with deep anti-tank ditches on its north and south sides. During Second World War the railway from London, Chatham, and Dover was adapted to serve as part of an anti-tank stop-line extending from Dover to Whitstable.

Monument Types

• STOP LINE (Modern - 1940 AD to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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Around the middle of 1940 a stretch of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, about 400m long, and extending between two railblocks, was augmented with deep anti-tank ditches on its north and south sides. During Second World War the railway from London, Chatham, and Dover was adapted to serve as part of an anti-tank stop-line extending from Dover to Whitstable. In stretches where the railway itself provided insufficient obstacle, it was augmented with a variety of anti-tank obstacles, as here. Besides strengthening the defence against tanks wishing to cross the Stop Line, these flanking ditches will also have prevented tanks from bypassing the railblock at the eastern end of the stretch.
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Royal Air Force, 01/01/46, Post-War Aerial photograph (Photograph). SKE15610.

Royal Air Force, 01/01/46, Post-War Aerial photograph (Photograph). Ske15610.

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