Maritime Stations

[341o2]

If we are including closed lines, how about Yarmouth Isle of Wight

 

[steamybrian]

If we are including closed lines, how about Yarmouth Isle of Wight

Yarmouth station was the other side of the town from the ferry terminal

I am unsure how far Cowes station (closed in 1966) was from the ferry terminal?

 

[Deepgreen]

From days of yore - Connel Ferry and Ballachulish?

 

[30907]

Ramsgate Harbour (Closed 1926) when the new line linking London, Chatham and Dover line from Margate to the South Eastern line from Ashford was opened. Unusual for having a turntable instead of a headshunt.

But Ramsgate Harbour wasn't a ferry port AFAIK?

 

[acg5324]

Using closed ferry routes.

Black Rock station on Volks railway for the long gone Jetfoil service to Dieppe.......

Was there not a Jetfoil service from Tower Bridge to Zeebrugge?

 

[mirodo]

Gretna Green - a marry time station?

 

[najaB]

Gretna Green - a marry time station?

Get out!

 

[aylesbury]

Yarmouth IOW station is now an excellent café and farm shop .

 

[341o2]

Yarmouth station was the other side of the town from the ferry terminal

I am unsure how far Cowes station (closed in 1966) was from the ferry terminal?

So Yarmouth (IOW) does not qualify. Cowes station was about 1/4 mile west of the chain ferry, the site is now a supermarket

 

[Firesprite]

But Ramsgate Harbour wasn't a ferry port AFAIK?

It has been in the past. As I have sailed from Ramgate to Ostend on the Sally Line cross channel ferry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Ramsgate

 

[Deepgreen]

Get out!

I've heard a lot worse!

 

[Wavertreelad]

Liverpool Riverside (closed), and Dawlish, although you would need a tender or small boat to sail out to ship, but possible I think.

 

[Mikey C]

Stretching things, I guess you could include North Woolwich, which was right next to the Woolwich Ferry!

Well North and South London are like separate countries!

 

[paddy1]

Dun Laoghaire Pier Station, Ireland. Used to have a station on a short branch line via tunnel that went right up alongside the SeaLink ferry to Holyead. The Pier station closed in the 1970's. The existing station, Dun Laoghaire (Mallin), which is on the main line, is still open and was only a short walk to the ferry and was used extensively by ferry foot passengers once the Pier Station had closed. However, as far as I am aware, there are no longer any ferry services out of Dun Laoghaire.

 

[najaB]

However, as far as I am aware, there are no longer any ferry services out of Dun Laoghaire.

They stopped last year.

 

[kylemore]

Nobody has mentioned Campbeltown in Argyll yet - the narrow gauge trains of the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway connected with the Fast Turbine steamers from Glasgow St. Enoch (via Fairlie) with through booking available.

 

[paddy1]

They stopped last year.

Thought as much

 

[John Luxton]

Some from the past worth recalling:


Fleetwood
Greenore
Dun Laoghaire
Liverpool Riverside
Neyland

John

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Some from the past worth recalling:


Fleetwood
Greenore
Dun Laoghaire
Liverpool Riverside
Neyland

John

There is a good book by a former GWR driver/fireman called "Behind the Steam" by Bill Morgan where he talks about his work at Neyland starting as a BoxBoy and ending up as a driver

 

[John Luxton]

There is a good book by a former GWR driver/fireman called "Behind the Steam" by Bill Morgan where he talks about his work at Neyland starting as a BoxBoy and ending up as a driver

Neyland is a fascinating place only visited there for the first time a couple of years ago. Though the railway is long gone, much of the quayside track on the NATO Quay remains in place. Erected post WWII long after the last railway steamers departed for Fishguard.

Some other maritime stations

Cóbh (Queenstown) still open and useful link for cruise passengers whose ships arrive alongside.

Plymouth Millbay.

Going further back in time what about Portskewett / New Passage used before the building of the Severn Tunnel.

John

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Fleetwood is still a maritime station not just a past one. Just on the tramway and Wyre ferry.
I'm almost certain it's a tram station rather than a stop.

 

[jopsuk]

Fleetwood is still a maritime station not just a past one. Just on the tramway and Wyre ferry.
I'm almost certain it's a tram station rather than a stop.

Nope, not even a platform!

 

[30907]

It has been in the past. As I have sailed from Ramgate to Ostend on the Sally Line cross channel ferry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Ramsgate

True, but that wasn't pre 1926! 70s or 80s more like.

This thread has stretched the definition of a Maritime station considerably from the OP'S
"where the train pulls up more or less alongside the ship" (all the fun of the forum - or the Ramsgate Harbour station funfair I remember from around 1960) but I think positing a 50-year wait from train to ferry is taking elasticity to extremes.

 

[Asterix2012]

The station pier at Kyle had nothing to do with the Skye ferries which were killed off by the bridge. It used to be a calling point on the Cal-Mac ferry from Stornoway to Mallaig, providing a useful link from Kyle to Mallaig which I used in 1972 on a round Britain rail trip, avoiding having to go back south via Inverness. That option disappeared when the Stornoway ferry was transferred to Ullapool.

The Kyle to Mallaig service continued in the summer after the Stornoway service moved to Ullapool

 

[Train jaune]

Heysham Harbour, You can still get a train there to catch the boat to the Isle of Man