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KEMP TOWN RAILWAY STATION

Stevenson Road

Neighbourhood:
Kemptown
1968
2018

James Gray: Two photographs [see also jgc_22_133 on Eastern Road 1A] of the lines running into the almost derelict station. The station was opened on 2 August 1869, and in the heyday of the Railway it handled 17 trains daily in each direction. With the coming of motor buses traffic dwindled and the line ceased passenger traffic on 31 December 1932. Now, only one coal train runs each way on weekdays. Photograph dated 28 April 1968. jgc_22_134

2018: The Kemp Town railway tunnel, used by a daily coal train at the time of Gray’s photograph in 1968, is now blocked off after 50 metres and the space used for storage. The former railway yard has become the Freshfield Light Industrial Estate. The November 2018 photograph shows the mouth of the tunnel partially obscured by buildings belonging to the storage company that now occupies the site where the railway line once ran. (Photographer: David Jackson)

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