Odd station/Halt

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Decided to travel down to kent on the HS1 to experience it at last and noticed just after sturry there was a lone platform there with no signage and nothing around or near it but a big lake.. Have had a look for what it is/was but cant find anything..

anyone have an idea?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Chislet Colliery, a former staff halt. i'll find out when it closed ...
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Closed - 4th October 71, opened in 1921

 

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Chislet Colliery, a former staff halt. i'll find out when it closed ...
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Closed - 4th October 71, opened in 1921

Nice one thanks very much. didnt even know there used to be a colliery there !!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Nice one thanks very much. didnt even know there used to be a colliery there !!

I didnt know they had collieries in Kent at all

Another interestying Kent Ghost Station is at Lullingstone, built in the 30/40s to serve a new village, but green belt stuff stopped the village being built. The station, fully built, was never used, and grass and plants soon took over. It was demolished in the 50/early 60s
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http://www.kentrail.co.uk/Lullingstone.htm

they wanted an international airport in the field next door... This is actually really saddening to me, dunno why though hock:

 

[Wyvern]

I didnt know they had collieries in Kent at all

Blimey. Something I didnt know I'd remembered!

I remember this in geography in school some sixty years ago. Perhaps because the mines ran under the sea?

Just found a website

 

[Clip]

Thats a niec bit of info there!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

re; Kent coal, thats pretty cool, sad though that its all gone now. What happens to them, when they dont reach coal and abandon them, do they just get filled in or just left to gether lots and lots adn lots and lots of dust?

 

[Wyvern]

Dunno about coal mines, but there are lots of old lead mines left around Derbyshire just capped over and you tend to be wary about dips in fields. I imagine its the same in Cornwall.

I have read many old coal mines still have to be pumped out to prevent drainage water getting too concentrated with leached minerals.

 

[atomicdanny]

I didnt know they had collieries in Kent at all

There are a few in kent, I live in a former mining village near one of them. I can think of at least two Snowdown and Tilmanstone

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Betteshanger Opened 1921, closed 1989
Chislet Produced coal from 1918 to 1969
Guilford Closed in the 1920s (Waldershare boring)
Shakespeare Closed in 1915
Snowdown Produced coal from 1912 to 1986
Stonehall Abandoned in 1914
Tilmanstone Produced coal from 1913 to 1986
Wingham Abandoned in 1914
Woodnesborough Abandoned in 1914

 

[MidnightFlyer]

There are a few in kent, I live in a former mining village near one of them. I can think of at least two Snowdown and Tilmanstone

edit after a small search

Betteshanger Opened 1921, closed 1989
Chislet Produced coal from 1918 to 1969
Guilford Closed in the 1920s (Waldershare boring)
Shakespeare Closed in 1915
Snowdown Produced coal from 1912 to 1986
Stonehall Abandoned in 1914
Tilmanstone Produced coal from 1913 to 1986
Wingham Abandoned in 1914
Woodnesborough Abandoned in 1914

you know all those were at the bottom of the link above...

 

[atomicdanny]

you know all those were at the bottom of the link above...

Lot that'll teach me to skim through things

 

[142094]

re; Kent coal, thats pretty cool, sad though that its all gone now. What happens to them, when they dont reach coal and abandon them, do they just get filled in or just left to gether lots and lots adn lots and lots of dust?

Most likely the shaft gets filled in with concrete, and there may be a tube to allow methane gas to be collected. Some of the waste water from the mines can be full of heavy metals and other stuff so it needs to be pumped out and treated. However most of the actual coal workings will be left as is, either to subside naturally or where the drift mine ran under the sea, to fill with water. Apparently a lot of the machinery is still down in a lot of them, cheaper just to leave it there and abandon it. All former sites apart from those sold off under privatisation are the responsibility of the Coal Authority. So if an old mine shaft opens up in your garden they'll be the ones to come round.

 

[trainfanatic]

Richborough Power Station used to burn most of the Kent coalfield output.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'm old enough to remember seeing, as a small boy on family holidays in the early 1970s, a regular "open trucks" working coming through Westgate on Sea with what was probably a 71 or 74 ( though could have been a 73 ) hauling it.

That, presumably, was a daily coal related working. Pretty sure it came from the Margate direction.

 

[LE Greys]

As I understand it, the Bulleid Pacifics were designed to burn Kentish coal (hence the thermic syphons and Lematiere exhausts) which is fairly low-grade compared with most other steam coal. Presumably it was an economy measure (shorten the supply chain) but it didn't really work judging by their usual coal consumption.