Opened by South Eastern Railway, the station was a direct competitor to the London Chatham and Dover Railway, also operating in Kent to help people reach France.<\/p>\n
By 1900, about 200,000 passengers were believed to be using Folkestone Harbour each year, and that number had risen to half a million by 1911.<\/p>\n
After the war, the station’s fortunes began to fade. <\/p>\n
“The Channel Tunnel saw the end of the station,” Hill says.<\/p>\n
He added: “It was becoming very, very tired with not a lot of investment.”<\/p>\n
Nowadays, the surrounding Harbour Arm has been repurposed as a site for people to have a drink, a bite to eat and a day out, but the station still remains as a walkway to services across the seafront.<\/p>\n
But despite its changes, its history is still of huge significance to visitors, Hill says.<\/p>\n
He said: “I’m very proud to still be sitting on the edge of the platform. <\/p>\n
“A lot of residents still remember it as it was, but it has been gentrified now – it’s become a very nice place to visit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opened by South Eastern Railway, the station was a direct competitor to the London Chatham and Dover Railway,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}