Margate Railway Station
Margate Railway Station is a railway station in Thanet District, Kent, England. Margate Railway Station is situated nearby to the food court The Sun Deck, as well as near Nayland Rock Hotel.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Margate railway station and Dreamland Margate.
Margate railway station
Railway station
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Margate railway station serves the town of Margate in Thanet, Kent, England. It is 73 miles 69 chains down the line from London Victoria. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
Dreamland Margate
Theme park
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Dreamland Margate is an amusement park and entertainment centre based on a traditional English seaside funfair located in Margate, Kent, England. The site of the park was first used for amusement rides in 1880, although the Dreamland name was not used until 1920 when the park's Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden rollercoaster was opened. Dreamland Margate is situated 1,300 feet east of Margate Railway Station.
Scenic Railway
Roller coaster
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The Scenic Railway was a wooden roller coaster located at the Dreamland Amusement Park in Margate, United Kingdom. First opened in 1920, the ride was distinctive compared to modern-day roller coasters, as a brakeman was required to travel with the train to control its speed, manually applying brakes when needed. Scenic Railway is situated 1,300 feet east of Margate Railway Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westbrook and Margate.
Westbrook
Suburb
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Westbrook is a Victorian seaside resort on the Thanet peninsula in the southeast corner of England. It is the westernmost part of Margate and is part of the ribbon development of the north Kent coast. Westgate-on-Sea lies to the west.
Margate
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Margate is a seaside resort on the north Kent coast, with a population in 2021 of more than 64,000. It's suffered the usual decline of English seaside towns but its beach is still thronged on warm summer weekends, and there are several places of interest for cold wet days.
Garlinge
Suburb
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garlinge is a village and suburb of Margate, in the Thanet district, in Kent, England, situated 2 miles southwest of the centre of the town.
Margate Railway Station
- Type: Railway station
- Roof shape: flat
- Categories: building and transportation
- Location: Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3854° or 51° 23′ 8″ northLongitude
1.37198° or 1° 22′ 19″ eastLevels
1Open location code
9F3399PC+5QOpenStreetMap ID
way 170129302OpenStreetMap feature
building=train_stationOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=flat
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