Crab and Winkle Way Bridge Over Thanet Way
Crab and Winkle Way Bridge Over Thanet Way
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September 10, 2021
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April 12, 2024
Cycling
railway line which ran between the towns of Canterbury
and Whitstable.
On Monday 3rd May 1830, a clanking passenger locomotive,
the ‘Invicta’ pulled into the platform near Whitstable Harbour
carrying nearly 300 excited passengers from Canterbury. The
‘Crab and Winkle Line’, as it affectionately became known,
had become the ‘first regular steam passenger railway in the
world’ as stated in the Guinness Book of Records.
The locomotive and the line were engineered by the
famous George Stephenson
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Elevation 20 m
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