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Title: 23rd July 2022 - 100 years of the train on Hythe Pier Post by: grahame on January 13, 2022, 17:05:10 From The Hythe Pier Heritage Association - https://www.facebook.com/HythePierHA/
Quote This year’s Rock the Pier music festival will be retitled Rock the Train and will be staged on Saturday July 23rd as a part of a Centenary Celebration marking 100 years of the train operating on Hythe Pier. The Guinness Book of Records lists the train as the world’s “oldest operating pier train”, having been running to and from the Hythe ferry boats at the end of the pier since late July 1922. Title: Re: 23rd July 2022 - 100 years of the train on Hythe Pier Post by: grahame on October 29, 2023, 09:01:30 From Southern Daily Echo (https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23878517.hythe-experts-restore-railway-used-100-year-old-train/)
Quote Hythe Pier Heritage Association (HPHA) is restoring the first 45 metres of track on the 640-metre pier - the seventh longest in the UK. Rails that had been in place for decades have been lifted and old sleepers at the shore-end station have also been taken up. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |