Romney Sands railway station

Between 1929 and 1951, Romney Sands was a junction, with a branch line curving away inland from south of the station. This line was constructed at the request of the War Office and provided a train service to a secret military installation working on acoustic aircraft detection at Denge.^[1] Their work was highly successful, but almost immediately replaced by the superior invention known as radar. The War Department operated their own locomotive, which was stabled at Hythe engine shed, and for which they had running rights for the full length of the railway. This is the only independently owned locomotive to have seen long-term service on the railway. After the war the War Department Branch Line saw a further six years of service (freight only) by the RHDR, which transported large quantities of uncrushed shingle by train to Hythe, where a ramp system was used to transfer the cargo to road haulage. This freight service ended in 1951, and the line was lifted at the end of that year.

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  No.2 Northern Chief waiting to leave the station for Dungeness
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  No. 9 Winston Churchill arriving from Romney

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Dungeness Terminus		Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway Main line		New Romney towards Hythe
Former service
Lade Line open, station closed towards Dungeness		Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway Main line		Greatstone Dunes Line open, station closed towards Hythe
Disused railways
War Department Halt Line and station closed Terminus		Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway War Department Branch Line		Terminus

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