Station Name: DOVER TOWN

[Source: Nick Catford & Lorraine Sencicle]

Dover Town Station Gallery 3:
September 1973 - September 2015


Looking west at the site of Dover Town station in September 1973. Cartics are seen on the right alongside the remaining realigned section of the old Dover Town platform Shakespeare cliff dominates the background.
Photo by John Mann


09019 shunts cartics from the old 'Military Platform' at Archcliffe Junction into Dover Town Yard in February 1981. The old Dover Town platform was rebuilt with a curve in 1928; the bay allows vehicles to be loaded onto the cartics. Archcliffe Junction signal box was opened at this location in June 1928. In the 1940s the platform was also the Archcliffe Junction Staff Halt. The pedestrian entrance to Dover Western Docks station is seen top right, opposite the 'Lord Warden’ Hotel.
Photo by Graham Walker from his Flickr photostream

33037 passes Archcliffe Junction with 6E53 1138 Dover Town to Tyne Yard in August 1986. This was also the site of the short-lived through platform at Dover Town on the Hawkesbury Street Curve. The platforms opened on 1 October 1885 but were closed 18 years later in 1903 and quickly demolished. The site of the SER four-road engine shed is on the right.
Photo by Graham Walker from his Flickr photostream

The site of Dover Town station seen from the Western Heights in the 1990s. Cars are seen on the platform awaiting loading onto cartics; loaded cartics are seen to the rear. The housing along Beach Street was demolished in 1976 to provide a parking area for ferry traffic and all trace of Beach Street has now gone. The viaduct seen here replaced the original 1923 viaduct c1980. Hawkesbury Street curve runs beneath the viaduct. The tower seen to the right of the curve is part of the LCDR's Dover Harbour station building. Dover Western Docks station is seen far left to the east of the Admiralty Pier.
Photo from the Dover Historian

Looking east towards the site of Dover Town station in June 1991. The station site is now occupied by the through line to Dover Western Docks and part of the Dover Town freight yard, which was in use at this time for in use for the marshalling of ferry wagons arriving and departing through Dover Western Docks. Just beyond Archcliffe Junction signal box cartics are seen at the loading dock. These comprise sets of four double-decked wagons articulated across five small-wheeled bogies and are used for transporting cars.
Photo by David Todd from his Flickr photostream

In July 1994 the 07:25 boat train from Victoria is seen passing Archcliffe Junction signal box, on the final approach to Western Docks. The train has just passed through the site of Archcliffe Tunnel which was opened out in 1928. The platform has been rebuilt from the original Dover Town platform. In the 1940s it acted as Archcliffe Junction Staff Platform. The Dover Town Freight Yard is seen on the left.
Photo by Nick Slocombe from his A life spent chasing trains web site


Looking west at the site of Dover Town station in May 1995, a few months before closure of the Dover Town Yard. A Type 47 stands at the car loading dock.
Photo by David Todd from his Flickr photostream

The site of the Dover Town Yard and, beyond the signal box, Dover Town station in April 1996, shortly after closure of the yard. Although the track in the yard was lifted in 1997 the Archcliffe Junction signal box remained open until 12 April 1998.
Photo by David Todd from his Flickr photostream

The site of Dover Town station and Dover Town yard in December 1997. Track-lifting has recently been completed and only the floodlights remain. Photo by David Todd from his Flickr photostream

Looking west at the site Dover Town station and Dover Town yard in May 2011. The station site is now used as a lorry park. A Class 395 Javelin turns towards Dover Harbour Tunnel and
Priory Station beyond.
Photo by Ian Haddenham from his Flickr photostream

Looking west at the site of Dover Town station in September 2014. The car loading dock, part of the later Dover Freight Yard is seen on the right. Shakespeare Cliff is seen in the distance.
Photo by Nick Catford

Recent aerial vierw showing the site of Archchcliffe Junction and the surviving part of the original Dover Town platform. The platform was larer rebuilt on a curve to allow the line to run in to Dover Marine. The line of that curve is clearly seen along the right edge of the car park at the bottom.

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