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2 days ago · The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), now called High Speed 1, runs 69 miles (111 km) from St Pancras railway station in London to the tunnel portal at Folkestone in Kent. It cost £5.8 billion. On 16 September 2003 the prime minister, Tony Blair, opened the first section of High Speed 1, from Folkestone to north Kent.
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1 day ago · FOLKESTONE. THE parish of Folkestone, which gives name to this hundred, was antiently bounded towards the south by the sea, but now by the town and liberty of Folkestone, which has long since been made a corporation , and exempt from the jurisdiction of the hundred.
May 11, 2024 · A Channel Tunnel train departing from Folkestone, England. Channel Tunnel, rail tunnel between England and France that runs beneath the English Channel. The Channel Tunnel, 50 km (31 miles) long, consists of three tunnels: two for rail traffic and a central tunnel for services and security.
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2 days ago · There are oil refineries on the Isle of Grain and railway workshops at Ashford. Folkestone. Harbour of Folkestone, Kent, England. The suburbs of London continue to encroach on the farmlands of northwestern Kent, and such towns as Sevenoaks and Tonbridge lie well within the commuter belt of the capital.
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4 days ago · The Folkestone Harbour Branch was one of the steepest lines on the British Rail network used by passenger services, with a gradient of 1 in 30 (the famous Lickey Incline is 1 in 37). The steepness can be judged from the change in angle of the roofline of the carriages. In the foreground is a girder of the swinging portion of the bridge giving ...
4 days ago · Footnotes. ALIEN HOUSES. 70. THE PRIORY OF FOLKESTONE. Eadbald, king of Kent (616-40), is said to have built here for his daughter Eanswith a monastery dedicated to St. Peter. Nothing is known of the history of this house, but it would seem to have been the earliest nunnery in England, with the possible exception of Barking.
May 10, 2024 · William Brown, 7, was pronounced dead at the scene in Folkestone, Kent, in December. Kent A variety of local issues featured on the BBC News website, BBC Radio Kent and BBC South East Today.
