Re: Dungeness Nuclear Train


"Jonathan Stott" <03smj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> richard_thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I didn't know there used to be an Inter-City from Folkestone to
> > Liverpool/Manchester - I thought that there were only ever trains
> > to/from London.
>
> Used to be one from Dover/Folkestone and one from Margate via Whitstable
> I think. I think they ran through Kensington, but I may be totally wrong!
>
> > When/why did it stop, and are there any prospects of anything similar
> > in the future?
>
> Think it stopped sometime in the 90s.
>
There were three each way a day from sometime in the mid-1980s, which ran
to/from Dover Western Docks. They didn't attract much custom, and by 1990
were down to one a day, running to/from Folkestone. It eventually reduced to
one a week, running to Ramsgate on Summer Saturdays only, and for a couple
of Summers was hauled by a Deltic.

Peter


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