Prince of Wales Halt railway station

Prince of Wales Halt railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Prince of Wales Halt
manager = RHDR
locale = Palmarsh
borough = Shepway
platforms = ?
years = 1927
events = Opened
years1 = 1928
events1 = Station closed to passengers

Prince of Wales Halt railway station was a short-lived station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England.

About three quarters of a mile from the Hythe terminus, in an area known as Palmarsh, the railway line and the Royal Military Canal (hitherto running side by side) finally diverge, and the railway line passes under a large, double-arched, bridge carrying the road from Hythe to Lympne.

This bridge, and the halt located here, took their names from the nearby Prince of Wales public house. The halt never had any station buildings, and was simply a request stop for service trains, accessed by means of a steep footpath down from the road to the trackside, beside the bridge.

The halt opened with the opening of the line in 1927, appearing in the timetables for the first year of operation only, before closing in 1928 due to lack of traffic. Its only historical distinctions are that it was, by a wide margin, the most short-lived, the most sparsely-equipped, and the most under-used station on the line.


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