Besides Dover Priory, there have been five other stations in Dover, all of which are now closed.
Dover Harbour The name
Dover Harbour has been used for two separate stations. The first was opened by the LCDR on 1 November 1861; this was closed in June 1863 when it was replaced by a new station named
Dover Town and Harbour. This was renamed
Dover Harbour on 1 July 1899 and closed on 10 July 1927. Although the platforms have been demolished as in March 2017 the station buildings still survive as offices.
Dover Town The SER's original station opened on 7 February 1844 as
Dover, After closure for passengers the track/platforms were in use for freight/engineers use until the 1990s. After the track was removed the area was used for car parking and some sections of platforms still survive.
Admiralty Pier In 1860 SER started running trains on to the pier, the LCDR following in 1864. This exposed halt was extended and replaced by Dover Marine in 1909. The SER station at
Dover Admiralty Pier opened on 30 August 1864 and closed in August 1914. It was renamed again to
Dover Western Docks on 14 May 1979, and was closed by
British Rail on 26 September 1994 Work on the new train ferry pier at the station suffered damage worth £300,000 during the
Great storm of 1987.
Regie voor Maritiem Transport used to run ferries until 1994 from here to
Oostende railway station which connected into
Belgian railway line 50A run by
NMBS. There was a fast ferry service using the
Jetfoil as well as conventional ferries. The
Southern Railway opened a large
locomotive depot at the site in 1928. This was closed in 1961 and demolished. == See also ==