Lydd Town Station (formely Lydd Station) April 2017 VISIT

Urban Exploration: Abandoned Train Station in Lydd Kent .
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One of my favourite abandoned stations
Lydd Town Station (formerly Lydd Station) (Closed) and Lydd Town Crossing
Opened on 7 December 1881 as Lydd Station, on 4 July 1937 the station was renamed Lydd Town to prevent confusion with a newly opened station at Lydd-on-Sea.

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Lydd Town Station was a substantial facility, with a large goods yard and much passenger and freight traffic generated by nearby army camps. A branch ran south from the goods yard into the army camps, which were served by Lydd Military Railway. A passing loop was provided at the station, but this has subsequently been lifted. The station was closed to passenger traffic on 6 March 1967 and to freight on 4 October 1971. Part of the site is now used as a recycling facility. There is a possibility that gravel extraction will restart south of the station, and, if so, the passing loop may be reinstated to allow locomotives to change ends and shunt the train.

If open today Lydd Town Station would serve a growing town, which is just south west of the site, and a short extension to the line could also provide much improved transport facilities to Lydd Airport (also known as London Ashford), linking directly to Ashford International Station.

The branch actually runs south east from Appledore. The convention adopted in these collections is that Appledore is north, Dungeness is south, the New Romney side of the branch is east, and the Lydd side of the branch
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The History of Lydd Airport formerly known as Ferryfield

The History of Lydd Airport formerly known as Ferryfield

The History of Lydd Airport formerly known as Ferryfield

Lydd Airport, opened in 1954, was the first airport to be built in the UK following the end of the Second World War.It was built for Silver City Airways as an all-weather replacement operating base to that of nearby Lympne Airport, whose grass runway was often waterlogged in rainy weather.

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The new Lydd  Ferryfield was, like Lympne, used initially for car carrying air ferry services using Bristol Freighters, operating principally to Le Touquet in France.

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It was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh 

 Within 5 years of opening, it was handling over 250,000 passengers annually, making it one of the busiest airports in the UK.

in the early 1970s the advent of the Hovercraft and roll-on-roll-off ferries led to a decline of the air ferry services from Lydd although other passenger and freight operations continued.

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during the 1980s the airport was bought by Hards Travel from Solihull, who used the airport  as its base for its holiday operations to Spain, Italy and Austria, using Dart Herald and Viscount aircraft flying to Beauvais in France, where customers were transferred to coaches for the remainder of the journey. During this time Hards operated 14 flights a day from the airport, and used the large fields surrounding the airport for car parking.

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Lydd Airport future 

a statement from there website 

We want to offer local people the chance to go on holiday or business from their local airport without the hassle and expense of flying from the London Airports which are becoming increasingly congested along with the roads that serve them.The developments will help to create much needed employment on the Romney Marsh. Strict environmental controls will ensure that the special flora and fauna of Dungeness will continue to be protected or enhanced, and noise levels and aircraft numbers will be capped. Flying hours will be limited to 0700-2300, i.e. no night flights. Road infrastructure will be improved too.

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The History of Lydd Airport formerly known as Ferryfield

The History of Lydd Airport formerly known as Ferryfield

Duke Of Edinburgh Visits Ferryfield Airport (1956)

Lydd Airport, opened in 1954, was the first airport to be built in the UK following the end of the Second World War. It was built for Silver City Airways as an all-weather replacement operating base to that of nearby Lympne Airport, whose grass runway was often waterlogged in rainy weather. The new Lydd Ferryfield was, like Lympne, used initially for car carrying air ferry services using Bristol Freighters, operating principally to Le Touquet in France. Within 5 years of opening, it was handling over 250,000 passengers annually, making it one of the busiest airports in the UK.

 In the early 1970s the advent of the Hovercraft and roll-on-roll-off ferries led to a decline of the air ferry services from Lydd although other passenger and freight operations continued.

During the 1980s the airport was bought by Hards Travel from Solihull, who used the airport  as its base for its holiday operations to Spain, Italy and Austria, using Dart Herald and Viscount aircraft flying to Beauvais in France, where customers were transferred to coaches for the remainder of the journey. During this time Hards operated 14 flights a day from the airport, and used the large fields surrounding the airport for car parking. 

Lydd was the first post-war airport to be built in Britain, and was used for air ferry services to destinations in France

Today the Airport, which has benefited from substantial investment by the new owner, sees a healthy mix of private and training general aviation, corporate jets and air taxis, cargo, maintenance as well as scheduled services to Le Touquet.