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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 02 SW 148 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Lydd & New Romney Branch Railway |
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Summary
Dismantled Railway, opened 1884 and closed in 1967.
| Grid Reference: | TR 0315 2323 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR02SW |
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| Parish: | LYDD, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- RAILWAY (Post Medieval to Modern - 1884 AD to 1967 AD)
Full description
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Dismantled Railway, opened 1884 and closed in 1967. In 1881, the nominally independent Lydd Railway Company obtained powers to build a line from Appledore to Dungeness, and in the following year to extend the railway to New Romney. Plans to build a large port at Dungeness were mooted, but never implemented. Between the wars, numerous summer bungalows developed betweeen Dungeness and New Romney, causing the New Romney branch to be resited nearer the coast in 1937 with two new halts at Lydd on Sea and Greatstone. Passenger trains ceased to call at Dungeness in 1953. The line was closed in 1967, although a siding continued to serve the new power stations at Dungeness, for moving waste products from the power station.
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