Building record TR 02 SE 215 - Site of New Romney and Littlestone-on-Sea Station (Littlestone holiday camp station)

Summary

New Romney and Littlestone-on-Sea Station appears on the 2nd (1897-1900), 3rd (1906-1923), 4th (1929-1952), it opened in 1883 by the South Eastern Railway as a branch line from Lydd to New Romney. It finally closed in 1969. Has since been demolised and an industrial estae built.

Location

Grid reference TR 07353 24747 (point) (2 map features)
Map sheet TR02SE
County KENT
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish NEW ROMNEY, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Full Description

Littlestone holiday camp station.

From The National Monuments Record:
Station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, opened in 1929.

Historic England archive material:BF006941 NEW ROMNEY & LITTLESTONE ON SEA STATION, NEW ROMNEY BF006508 LITTLESTONE HOLIDAY CAMP STATION, NEW ROMNEY

Summary from Website: Nick Catford and Lorraine Sencicle, 2017, Disused Stations - Site record - New Romney and Littlestone On Sea (1)
The station was opened on 19 June 1884 and closed on 6 March 1967. New Romney and Littlestone station, which had the suffix on-sea added in 1888, was a small two-platformed terminus equipped with an equally small goods yard. The main station building was located on the down platform, while the goods shed was just to the south-west behind the platform together with coal wharves, an end loading dock, a water tower and other small buildings.[4] In later years the up platform was hardly used other than as a livestock loading dock. In 1927, one of the sidings was extended across the road to deliver coal to the depot of the newly opened Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RHDR) which was to open its own New Romney station here.


<1> Nick Catford and Lorraine Sencicle, 2017, Disused Stations - Site record - New Romney and Littlestone On Sea (Website). SKE58469.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Website: Nick Catford and Lorraine Sencicle. 2017. Disused Stations - Site record - New Romney and Littlestone On Sea.

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Record last edited

Feb 18 2025 12:58PM