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In 2012, the developer Cogent announced a planned 800-home development at Manston Green, which would include a parkway station on the Ashford - Canterbury - Ramsgate Line. The new station would also serve Kent International Airport via a bus link. [2] A planning application for this was due to be submitted before the end of 2013. [2]
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 .
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 .
The current Ramsgate station and a new station at Dumpton Park were built on this new line. The Ramsgate Harbour station, line through the tunnel, and the Ramsgate Town station and old SER line across to Margate Sands were all closed in July 1926. [8] Margate West station was renamed Margate in 1926. Margate East closed on 4 May 1953. [4]
Thanet / ˈ θ æ n ɪ t / is a local government district in Kent, England.The council is based in Margate and the district also contains the towns of Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Westgate-on-Sea, along with several villages.
Ramsgate Harbour railway station was a railway station in Ramsgate, in the Thanet district of Kent, England. Opened in 1863 as part of the Kent Coast Railway company's extension of its line from Herne Bay , it was conveniently situated for the seaside resort's beach, but it closed in 1926 after a reorganisation of railway lines in the Thanet area.
The A256 is a major road running along the east coast of Kent between the Isle of Thanet and Dover.It is operated by Kent County Council as a primary route, and has seen investment in the past to connect traffic to the Port of Ramsgate, and to the Pfizer research centre in Sandwich.
Instead, the station was built by the Kent Coast Railway as part of an extension from Margate to Ramsgate Harbour. [2] It opened on 5 October 1863. [3] From the beginning, the line was operated by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR), who bought the Kent Coast Railway on 1 July 1871. [2]