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Brookland, Lydd Town and Dungeness Freight Line

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Does anyone know if the line is still actively used for freight? I can see Q Paths on RTT but no sign of one ever being used. Wikipedia says the Power Station is no longer active, is this the case?
 
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The line is still active, but Dungeness B is currently down (and has been for a while) for maintenance. Once it starts up again, the occasional flask train will run again.

I vaguely recall that DBCargo were starting to run aggregate trains down the branch as well
 
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How did the freight trains operate with the number of old style level crossings along the line?
 
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class717 said:
How did the freight trains operate with the number of old style level crossings along the line?
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Slowly. For the open crossings (all bar the A259) the procedure is detailed in this RSSB rule book, section 5. Train slows to 5 mph upon approach to the crossing, sounds the horn, and if clear proceeds at 5mph until on the crossing before accelerating back to linespeed.
 
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