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So this evening I decided to take you on a journey along the Harbour bridge and through to the derelict train station that's been recently reconstructed
This is a brief of history of Folkestone Harbour.

THE HARBOUR AFTER 1918.

I‌n may 1930 the former wood and metal swing bridge was demolished and the present replacement was rolled into place, in order to ­allow heavier trains to use the station.

In 1931 Mohandas Gandhi was invited to attend a Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress. He arrived in Folkestone on the ss Biarritz on 12 September. His visit to Britain, during the fight for India’s independence, marked the signing of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, in which the British Government agreed to free all political prisoners in return for the suspension of the civil disobedience campaign.

During the Dunkerque evacuation, in May–June 1940, every boat in Folkestone took part, bringing troops back to trains that were waiting at the harbour station. Over a nine-day ­period an estimated 35,000 troops and 9,000 refugees were landed, and 64 trains left the ­station.

During the course of wwii over 2,000 long-range shells fell on Folkestone. The Admiralty used part of the harbour for loading landing ships and as a result, part of the structure was demolished and the materials used to form a landing stage. It was repaired with concrete after the war ended.

Cross-channel passenger traffic resumed in 1946, with services to Boulogne and Calais, but traffic gradually declined over the next 50 years. The introduction of larger vessels on the cross-channel routes over the years exposed the limitations imposed by the restricted water depth at Folkestone, and there was little investment by the owners. With developments elsewhere in roll-on roll-off ferries, Folkestone Harbour did not acquire its own link-span bridge until 1972: the remains of the concrete ‘Dolphins’ that carried the ramp are still visible, the ramp and mechanism having long been dismantled.

Folkestone Harbour was sold in the 1980s, together with the ferry company Sealink, as part of the Government’s privatization programme. Sea Containers purchased the port together with the ferry operation. The ferries were subsequently sold to Stena Line, which then concentrated its operations at Dover. Although catamarans ( SeaCats ) were introduced on the Folkestone–Boulogne route, these were ­finally withdrawn in 2000, following the abolition of duty free shopping and a consequent drop in passenger numbers, and heavy competition from other ferry routes and the Channel Tunnel.


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