Closed Stations Journey quiz

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 776 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Leysdown
It follows the line of the Sheppey Light Railway
It then follows the line of the LC&D Sheerness Line
It then follows the line of the SER Chatham Main Line...link line only, no closed stations
It then follows the line of the LC&D Ramsgate Branch Line
It then follows the line of the LC&D Kent Coast Line
It then follows the line of the SER Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) Line
It then follows the line of the Elham Valley Railway
It then follows the line of the South Eastern Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the LC&D Dover Branch Line
It then follows the line of the East Kent Light Railway...via Poison Cross
The journey ends at the closed station of Sandwich Road

The first closed station on this journey is Leysdown

 

[Momo and diggy]

Little hulton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little hulton

I think that your posting was intended for another quiz. Little Hulton was on the line up to Bolton Great Moor Street, whereas we are on the Sheppey Light Railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Harty Road Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastchurch

 

[Calthrop]

Brambledown Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Minster on Sea

 

[Calthrop]

East Minster on Sea

 

[Whistler40145]

Sheerness East

 

[Calthrop]

Kings Ferry Bridge North Halt

 

[DerekC]

Whitstable Town

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Margate East

 

[DerekC]

St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay

We might have noted Herne Bay & Hampton on Sea (1861 - 1863), the original terminus of the Herne Bay and Faversham Railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Ebbsfleet & Cliffsend Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grove Ferry and Upstreet

 

[DerekC]

Chislet Colliery Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Canterbury

 

[Calthrop]

Bridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bishopsbourne

 

[Calthrop]

Barham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elham

 

[Ash Bridge]

Lyminge

 

[Calthrop]

Cheriton Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Folkestone East

 

[Calthrop]

Folkestone Warren Halt

 

[DerekC]

Shakespeare Cliff Halt

Not quite sure about this one. As I understand it hasn't been used since 1994 and is derelict.

As a workers halt for the Channel Tunnel construction it ought to count. ​

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dover Harbour

 

[Whistler40145]

Richborough Castle Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Richborough Castle Halt

I think we have to remember that being on the current line that will allow us to access the final leg of this journey (East Kent Light Railway), after having passed through the closed station of Dover Harbour, we would then have then passed through the open stations of Dover Priory and of Kearsney before reaching the closed station of .....

Stonehall and Lydden Halt

 

[DerekC]

I think we have to remember that being on the current line that will allow us to access the final leg of this journey (East Kent Light Railway), after having passed through the closed station of Dover Harbour, we would then have then passed through the open stations of Dover Priory and of Kearsney before reaching the closed station of .....

Stonehall and Lydden Halt

Tilmanstone Colliery Halt

Noting that there was a siding connection between the EKLR and the SER in the dock lines at Richborough Port and it would in theory have been possible to go that way - although not in accordance with the journey guidance.