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The museum is situated in the Clock House on the quayside of the Royal Harbour at Ramsgate. Ramsgate Maritime Museum was run by the Steam Museum Trust, a registered charity [1] from 2012 to 2023, when the lease was returned to Thanet District Council. The museum closed in 2021 for a major refurbishment of the Clock House building, and is ...
Local newspapers are the Thanet Extra, part of the KM Group; Isle of Thanet Gazette and Thanet Times (merged with Adscene, October 2009), (the Thanet Times was withdrawn in October 2012) all owned by Northcliffe Media; and the midweek Your Thanet published online by KOS Media. The county-wide newspaper Kent on Saturday also serves the district.
By 1933 Merrie England, now under the ownership of Ramsgate Olympia, had become extremely popular, and Ramsgate Olympia began to lobby the Southern Railway to reopen the line through the tunnel, with a new junction station between Dumpton Park and Broadstairs. [13] However, the Southern Railway rejected the proposal as too costly and impractical.
The Kent Coast Line is the railway line that runs from Minster East Junction to Buckland Jn connecting Ramsgate and Dover Priory in the English county of Kent. It was electrified (750 V DC third rail) by BR under the 1955 Modernisation Plan .
Ramsgate is a seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2021 it had a population of 42,027. Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline, and its main industries are tourism and fishing.
The service has a circular 14-mile (23 km) route which passes through Ramsgate, Margate, and Broadstairs. [1] It also calls at Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital and Westwood Cross. [5] Buses operate at a maximum frequency of every 8 minutes Monday-Saturday, and every 10 minutes on Sundays. [6]
Ramsgate railway station serves the town of Ramsgate in Thanet in Kent, England. The station lies on the Chatham Main Line , 79 miles 21 chains (127.6 km) down the line from London Victoria , the Kent Coast Line , and the Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line .
To the east is the junction station for the SER branch line to Deal via Sandwich - itself opened on 1 July 1847. [3] [4] Originally there was no connection for trains running from Ramsgate SER Station to Deal and services were provided from a bay platform. Services from Sandwich and Deal terminated at Minster, where passengers then had to ...