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The 1920’s brick-built Railway station of Ramsgate, on the Chatham main line 79 miles downline from London Victoria was opened in 1926 to serve the seaside town of Ramsgate in Thanet, Kent in south east England.
All trains through Ramsgate are operated by South-eastern, who also are responsible for the management of the station.
Ramsgate has three main routes running to London St Pancras, Victoria and Charing cross
The station boasts a café, public toilets and waiting room together with a dual-window ticket office and TVM (Ticket Vending Machine) - for ticket issuing and collection out-of-hours.
Historically the line from Canterbury to Ramsgate was built by SER - South Eastern Railway, with the first train arriving in 1846 at what was then known as Ramsgate SER where it terminated. The original station was located, unlike the current station, in the town centre and latterly changed its name to Ramsgate Town.
As a side note of interest The artist Vincent Van Gogh moved to Ramsgate in April 1876, at age 23, describing the town and its wonderful beach and harbour as “beautiful”. Then moving to London a few months later.
When the line was extended to Margate, further to the North, trains had to reverse out of Ramsgate Town to enable the journey to be continued. A chord was built bypassing the station but saw very little use.
In 1926 a new line opened, following grouping, connecting the SER line with the LCDR line a little south of Broadstairs. A new station was built a short distance away from the centre of Ramsgate with a new second station serving the locality at Dumpton Park. The original Ramsgate station, Ramsgate Harbour station and associated line through the tunnel and to Margate Sands were all closed at this point (July 1926). Whilst this was beneficial from an operations point of view it was not helpful from a service perspective as the town centre was no longer served.
The SER had opened a motive power depot near Ramsgate Station in April 1846. This was also closed by the Southern Railway in 1926 and replaced by a much larger facility in 1930. This closed to steam locomotives in 1959 and was converted for use servicing electric multiple units introduced by the Southern Region following the British Railways Kent Coast Electrification.
The depot was further modernised and upgraded in 2007, opening for operation a year later in 2008.
We hope you have enjoyed this look at Margate station and it’s history.
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Wikipedia:
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11 апр 2020
