Dover Harbour Station
It's our favourite time of the month! Local adventure time! We've been looking forward to this post as it leans into our niche interest of historic transport and disused railway stations, we also really enjoyed the last one on Dover Western Docks Station. Way back in 1844 the South Eastern Railway Company opened Dover's first railway station, Town Station. A year later it was decided that there was a need to connect Dover to London by rail via Canterbury but work didn't fully start until 1851 when the Railway Company built its North Kent Line. Two years later the East Kent Railway Company was formed and work commenced to connect Rochester to Canterbury which completed in 1860. During this time work was also being done to connect Canterbury to Dover but the SER pulled out of joining it to the NKL so the EKR stepped in to build a line to connect Rochester to London which would do the job. They built a new station at Canterbury and changed their name to Londo...
