22 Times, We d n e s d a y,January 7,2015 Way We Were CAN-EO1-S2 canterburytimes.co.uk In brief Van hits cars slowing on A2 The floods that resurrected : Emerg ency services attended a collision on the A2, just before the Aylesham turn off, at 8.30pm on Friday. A van had hit cars in front of it ’s railway link which had slowed down. The van was written off but no one was injured in the collision. Way We Were A spokesman for Fire and Rescue said: “It shows in Richard West these sorts of conditions drivers Founder of the need to keep their speed down.” Chaucer Education P ro j e c t Model railways vle.tcep.org.uk CANTERBURY: The Model Railway AN IMPORTANT aspect of an Society will be presenting its historical railway archive video 26th model railway exhibition at accessible on The Chaucer St Anselms School, Old Dover Education Project’s Twitter Road, on January 17 and 18. account @ChaucerUniv is that at The display will be open from the two minute, 15-second mark 10am to 5pm on Saturday and onwards it shows the double 10am to 4.30pm on Sunday. track Harbledown railway link There will be layouts large and between the Faversham to Dover small, from busy main lines with via Canterbury East and the lots of trains to sleepy byways Ashford to Ramsgate via with an atmosphere of bygone Canterbury West main lines. days. For the young there will be This sequence was shot during a small railway where they can what was likely to have been the drive trains with Thomas and temporary reopening in spring friends, and the Canterbury and 1953 to enable an extended District Model Engineers will be period of the coastal flood relief running their popular ride on train running to and from trains as long as the weather T hanet. per mits. The Canterbury and The host club will have on Railway closed to display its new layout called goods traffic on December 1, Nonington Quay, this is being 1952, having already closed to built to give the less experienced passenger traffic on December members a chance to learn by 31, 1930, from which date the line getting down and doing it. was downgraded to a goods ON TRACK: A locomotive emerges from the world's first railway tunnel on the Crab and Winkle Line, Whitstable Refreshments will be available siding. all day. There is free parking on The quick reopening of the caused by the strong winds of widely known but not the whole site for many cars, and lots of Canterbury and Whitstable the north-easterly gale blowing s t o r y. buses stop near the school. Railway on Friday, February 6, the North Sea onshore on the The Kent coast railway line IVisit www.ccmrs.co.uk 1953, after the severe flooding night of Saturday, January 31, is from Faversham to reopened on Monday, March 2, 1953, but with a very low speed restriction, with train services on the Canterbury and Whitstable line ceasing on February 28. The Harbledown link line, which seems to have been known as the Canterbury Loop, was reopened on February 22, 1953, and continued in use for regular services until May 21, 1953, when the flood damage to the coastal FLOOD: Whitstable Golf Club was underwater after the sea flooded You can change the future line between Faversham and the town on January 31, 1953 Herne Bay had been fully Foster carers give children re paired. The Harbledown link line the stability they need for remained usable until March 4, a great future. Find out 1956, although track lifting had started in October 1955. first-hand about the rewards Canterbury “B”signal box of fostering at an information controlled the Harbledown link line and can be seen at the event near you. beginning of that part of the archive video, as can later the www.kentfostering.co.uk higher level junction with the Faversham to Dover mainline. 03000 420 002 The Canterbury end of the Harbledown link began where Information Events the Canterbury West to Ashford line passes the Toddlers Cove WELLIES: councillor Peter Vickery-Jones aged play area and flood plain, to the 11 in the 1953 floods west of what is now the Rheims Way road bridge which had hypothetical parkway station through Canterbury. carried the A2 trunk traffic. which environmentally kept IMy previous articles, The boundary of The Frank Whitehall field but encouraged including Pioneering Greats Of Hooker School land, now new local train operators, as part Our Early Railway Networks, are Canterbury Academy, of The Chaucer Education available to read under Latest increasingly moves back from P ro j e c t . Articles in the right hand Presentation starts at 7pm the line of the railway, enabling The Harbledown link line was column of The Chaucer the link line route to be originally opened on May 5, 1918 Education Project’s virtual identified. to facilitate movements of learning environment website, Tuesday 13 January The higher western end of the military traffic to and from Port which now has the new top level Resource Centre, Thanington Road, link line is the junction by the Richborough (via Canterbury domain name of Canterbury CT1 3XE Whitehall railway bridge, where West, Minster and the branch chaucer.university in addition to the two main lines cross each line to Sandwich). redirection from the previous o t h e r. The line was single track domain name of vle.tcep.org.uk Quote KG2912 A control box for a water when closed on November 21, Follow us on Twitter for updates @kent_cc pumping station is believed to 1924. The track remained in STEP BACK IN have subsequently been built on place until 1935. It was reinstated TIME ONLINE the route near that bridge. for military use only between Apart from that one March 2, 1941, and October 21, IWatch video of the obstruction, the route is still 1951. Canterbury and Whitstable clear and I personally proposed Reinstating the Harbledown railway and the Harbledown the rebuilding of the link, in my link would enable the now link on our website at 1986 objective thesis and, funded Thanet Parkway railway controversially, for a station to serve both mainlines canterbur ytimes.co.u k /n osta l g i a