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The railway came to Margate via two separate companies. The South Eastern Railway (SER) was the first to reach the town when its branch line from the main line at Ashford, having opened to Ramsgate on 13 April 1846, was continued to a station called Margate Sands on 1 December the same year.
The town's history is tied closely to the sea and it has a proud maritime tradition. Margate was a "limb" of Dover in the ancient confederation of the Cinque ports. It was added to the confederation in the 15th century. Margate has been a leading seaside resort for at least 250 years.
The original five ports were: Hastings; New Romney; Hythe; Dover; Sandwich; In medieval documents, Hastings sometimes appears to be given precedence among the ports (for example, the charters granted to Rye and Winchelsea by Henry II in 1155 refer to "The Barons of Hastings and the Cinque Ports"); but this usage probably arose simply from geographical convenience, with the ports being ...
The action of 17 March 1917 was a German raid on British shipping in the Strait of Dover as well as the harbours of Ramsgate and Margate.Two flotillas of German torpedo boats set out from the coast of Flanders and split.
The South Eastern Railway's (SER) first main line went to Dover via Folkestone and Ashford. The SER Ashford to Margate Broadstairs and Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line was then extended south to Deal. In 1881 this was linked up by the "Dover & Deal Joint Railway" with their bitter rival the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR).
The station struggled with competition from rival railways, particularly the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR), who constructed a line around Thanet to Ramsgate Harbour in 1863. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The station closed on 2 July 1926, as part of the Southern Railway 's plan to connect up and amalgamate the separate railway lines around Thanet ...
Dover's Racial Equity and Inclusion commitee has been working for the last year, brainstorming ways the city can be more inclusive and respectful. Dover commits to honor lives of its first ...
Later the same year the line opened across Thanet to Margate, to Margate SER, (later Margate Sands). Trains from Canterbury for Margate had to reverse at Ramsgate Town; a chord was built bypassing the station in 1864, costing £13,707. [3] St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay railway station was opened in 1864 just before this chord but closed in 1916. [4]