Sheppey Light Railway: Site of the former Scrapsgate crossing
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Sheppey Light Railway: Site of the former Scrapsgate crossing
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 24 Nov 2013
The Sheppey Light Railway ran from Queenborough to Leysdown-on-Sea. It was built to the designs of the renowned light railway engineer, Colonel Fred Holman Stephens, and was opened in 1901. Traffic was never busy on the line and it was taken over by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1905, finally closing in 1950. The photographer is uncertain as to whether the crossing was made by a bridge or a level crossing, and the situation is not helped by the fact that the Ordnance Survey large scale maps available online either show the railway as working and the road as a track before the houses were built (1933), or the railway dismantled but with the houses built and the road formalized (1965).
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