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New Road, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HW

The coast path joins the road here. The railway can be seen taking a sharp right turn towards the station.

Planning permission was granted by Swale Borough Council under application number 16/506143/FULL for “10 x 2MW standby generators with ancillary structures including a DNO metering station, transformer compound, switch room, store room and oil storage tanks. The location was described as land at Thamesteel, Brielle Way. It appears that the work is still ongoing on the site. This image shows the location when it was a Image

It sometimes seems that every spare square metre around Sheerness docks is covered in brand new cars.

On the other side of the road, the ground has been divided up, with lengths of white polythene attached to wooden posts. This could indicate that the site is going to be developed sometime in the future.

I was standing on a public footpath, that crosses the railway here, looking towards the railway line from Sheerness to the mainland, which this railway joins a little way ahead.

A freight line that gave one access to the Sheerness Steel site and also to the dockyard. The steelworks site is being redeveloped and the trackwork has gone, but the link beyond remains through to the dockyard, crossing the A259 on the level. This is looking towards the junction with the main Sheerness branch.

Sheerness Steel Mill is in the centre of the picture.

Approaching the footbridge, over the line, where I was standing. To the train's left are some of the overgrown railway tracks of the Thamesteel site. The company voluntarily entered administration on 25 January 2012 several weeks after halting production at its plant. Around 350 workers were made redundant as a result of the move with just 50 kept on to maintain the plant. On 8 June 2012, it was announced that Thamesteel had been sold out of administration to a new company owned by Al-Tuwairqi Group (ATG), joint administrators for the Sheerness steel producer http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/sheerness-steel-plant-to-restart-as-thamesteel-exits-administration/1012865.article See https://www.bcd-urbex.com/thamesteel-steel-works-sheerness-uk/ for a history of the site.

As seen from a footbridge over the Sheerness to Sittingbourne railway line. Thamesteel voluntarily entered administration on 25 January 2012 several weeks after halting production at its plant. Around 350 workers were made redundant as a result of the move with just 50 kept on to maintain the plant. On 8 June 2012, it was announced that Thamesteel had been sold out of administration to a new company owned by Al-Tuwairqi Group (ATG), joint administrators for the Sheerness steel producer http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/sheerness-steel-plant-to-restart-as-thamesteel-exits-administration/1012865.article See https://www.bcd-urbex.com/thamesteel-steel-works-sheerness-uk/ for a history of the site.