Date: 18/03/2022

A short piece of track has been removed to make a road safer, but not everyone in the community is happy about it.

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Historic rail track pulled up

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A short piece of track has been removed to make a road safer, but not everyone in the community is happy about it.

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The disused and severed spur from the Sheerness branch that formerly served the Sheerness Steel site (beyond the fence to left) and continued on to Sheerness Docks. View is south along the A429 Brielle Way in January 2017. The line to the docks is blocked some 100m behind the camera and the section of trackbed running beyond the crossing to the former South Junction is currently being excavated. There are plans to re-open part of the steelworks later in the year, initially as a rolling mill. It is possible the connection between the branch and the steelworks may yet be restored. P.S. Alas this was not to be as within a year from this view a bridge had been erected across the road ahead and the site prepared to be used as an additional storage area, holding some 2000 vehicles, for new cars imported thro' Sheerness dock.
Location: Sheerness Docks
Company: Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway
24/01/2017 David Pesterfield

Looking north from the level crossing over the A429 Brielle Way see image [[58002]] on the approach to Sheerness on Sea, along a surviving section of the former docks branch. The dock wall is built across the line just by the building ahead. The dock area is to the left and the former Sheerness Steel site across the road to the right.
Location: Sheerness Docks
Company: Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway
24/01/2017 David Pesterfield

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