IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Barler Place, QUEENBOROUGH, ME11 5BX

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Barler Place, ME11 5BX by members of the Geograph project.

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Image Listing (87 Images Found)

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Moat Way, Queenborough
At the far end of the road, one can gain access to the former trackbed of The Sheppey Light Railway which according to http://www.sheppeywebsite.co.uk/index.php?id=95 opened on 1 August 1901 and closed on 4 December 1950. The total length was 8 miles 52 chains. It ran from Queenborough (where there was a north-facing bay platform on the east side of the station) to Leysdown with intermediate stations at Sheerness East, East Minster-on-Sea (which was actually west of Minster), Minster-on-Sea (they're only given as Minster in the link), Brambledown Halt, Eastchurch and Harty Road Halt. Today, one can trace most of the route from the air and on the Ordnance Survey map (Explorer 149). On the ground, one can find sections overgrown with grass, brambles and trees, sections built over, sections concreted over to form a permanent way or landscaped to form paths for pedestrians.
Image: © John Baker Taken: 26 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
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Backs of houses in Mount Field, Queenborough
These were built on the trackbed of The Sheppey Light Railway as it neared its approach to Queenborough railway station. According to http://www.sheppeywebsite.co.uk/index.php?id=95 the railway opened on 1 August 1901 and closed on 4 December 1950. The total length was 8 miles 52 chains. It ran from Queenborough (where there was a north-facing bay platform on the east side of the station) to Leysdown with intermediate stations at Sheerness East, East Minster-on-Sea (which was actually west of Minster), Minster-on-Sea (they're only given as Minster in the link), Brambledown Halt, Eastchurch and Harty Road Halt. Today, one can trace most of the route from the air and on the Ordnance Survey map (Explorer 149). On the ground, one can find sections overgrown with grass, brambles and trees, sections built over, sections concreted over to form a permanent way or landscaped to form paths for pedestrians.
Image: © John Baker Taken: 26 Jul 2012
0.04 miles
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Queenborough Railway Station
Image: © Stacey Harris Taken: 31 Oct 2009
0.06 miles
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Former goods yard, Queenborough
Image: © Stacey Harris Taken: 31 Oct 2009
0.06 miles
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Queenborough station from the footbridge
The line was opened on 19th July 1860 by the Sittingbourne & Sheerness Railway (S&SR), a nominally independent company which had powers to construct a branch line from Sittingbourne across the Swale to a terminus near the entrance of Sheerness Dockyard. The line was worked from the outset by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway which absorbed the S&SR in 1876. Queenborough station opened on the same day. On 15th May 1876, Queenborough became a junction station with the opening of a short spur to Queenborough Pier to serve steam ship services. A second line was added on 1st August 1901 with the opening of the Sheppey Light Railway across the Isle of Sheppey to Leysdown. The iron footbridge from which this photograph was taken was erected at the southern end of the platforms to facilitate passengers changing between the main line and branch services. Services on the Sheppey Light Railway ceased as from 4th December 1950. Until the opening of Swale Halt in 1922, Queenborough was the only intermediate station on the Sheerness Line. The line through Queenborough was electrified and the platforms were lengthened in 1959 as part of phase I of the Kent Coast Electrification. This view looks in the direction of Sheerness.
Image: © Marathon Taken: 28 May 2016
0.07 miles
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DC electric unit at Queenborough
508025 was one of a few former Merseyrail class 508 units seconded to work in Kent and Surrey for a time until newer stock arrived.
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 3 Jun 2006
0.07 miles
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Queenborough station building
The platform side of the building, with colourful murals painted in the blocked-up windows of the upper floor.
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 3 Jun 2006
0.09 miles
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Queenborough station looking northwards
South Eastern 466 unit leaves for Sheerness
Image: © Robert Eva Taken: 4 Mar 2017
0.09 miles
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Stirling Road Queenborough
Image: © PAUL FARMER Taken: 3 May 2009
0.09 miles
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Queenborough Railway Station (former Sheppey Light Railway terminus)
Looking in the direction of Sheerness, this was once the terminus of the former Sheppey Light Railway whose trains departed to Leysdown-on-Sea from the far side of the platform on the right. The Sheppey Light Railway operated from 1901 to 1950.
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 24 Nov 2013
0.10 miles
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