Guess the Place

[shoot999]

A sports event ?

Yes.

[John Walker]

A sports event ?

[shoot999]

Lucky guess. Lived a bit further north of this in the 60s opposite Fort Bridgewood, so quite familiar with the contours of Bluebell Hill as a biker in those days.


This shouldn't last long.

[MartinR]

That didn't last long!  The Roman road is now Chatham Road, the track linking the pits is Old Chatham Road (weird that the "old" road is the newer of the two) and the current Bluebell Hill (A229) passes roughly along the right-hand edge of the chalk pits.  See the overlay below.

[shoot999]

Quick stab at it.   Blue Bell Hill area?

[MartinR]

I'll bet they were a bit fresher and more appetising than the curling cardboard that BR used to serve.

[grandarog]

quote "A claim to fame was that the troops returning from Dunkirk evacuation by train stopped at Headcorn where locals served refreshments."

My Aunty Kitty was one of the ladies that made sandwiches at the railway station for when the trains stopped there on the way to London full of our troops rescued from Dunkirk.I have a photo somewhere.

[MartinR]

OK try this map segment.  Lots of Roman and later activity.

[johnfilmer]

Well done MartinR it is Headcorn. (That’s read West to East  )


It was an interesting station, with the connection to the light railway to Tenterden and beyond bringing goods for onward shipping to London as well as the local produce and passengers.


A claim to fame was that the troops returning from Dunkirk evacuation by train stopped at Headcorn where locals served refreshments.

[MartinR]

Headcorn.

• Grid reference: TQ 83706 43998
• Coords:            51°09'57"N, 000°37'35"E or 51.1657,0.62614

[MartinR]

Am I Daft or doesn't Left to Right equal West to East

Probably, certainly 

[Stewie]

Were those turntables common?  It would be a signalling nightmare, not to say a right royal PITA for trains held at the outer distant whilst someone man-handles a carriage over the tracks.

In the days when the gentry would take their carriages with them on the train, the small turntables would allow the carriage (minus its horses) to be loaded onto a wagon at the dock and then attached to the rear of the train using either of the turntables, and hence the staggered platforms. The wagons would be hand shunted by station staff.

[johnfilmer]

I did realise the east/west mistake this morning, but hoped that nobody would notice 


Should have known better...


So, how many main lines were there in mid Kent in 1908? Rather narrows it down. Then how many stations on it have a now obsolete spur?

[grandarog]

That is a main line running left right, or as MartinR would say, east west.

Am I Daft or doesn't Left to Right equal West to East

[MartinR]

Were those turntables common?  It would be a signalling nightmare, not to say a right royal PITA for trains held at the outer distant whilst someone man-handles a carriage over the tracks.