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Lydd-on-Sea, Lade, RH&DR, Williamson Road level crossing.
©Helmut Zozmann
Sea kale (sometimes known as sea cabbage) can be seen everywhere on the inhospitable stones of the Dungeness beaches. It has large fleshy cabbage-like leaves, produces small white flowers and later on characteristic seed pods. This view is on the beach looking back to Coast Drive at Lade, and leading off this is Williamson Road where the level crossing on The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway can just be seen.
©Ian Yarham
The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway opened in 1927 and the extension to Dungenss from New Romney opened in 1928. This is the view from Williamson Road at Lade. In Lade and Greatstone-on-Sea, bungalows have been built on both sides of the line in many places whereas further south they are only on one side allowing views across the shingle (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2668429 ), and at Dungeness there are clear views on both sides of the line.
©Ian Yarham
Sea kale (sometimes known as sea cabbage) can be seen everywhere on the inhospitable stones of the Dungeness beaches. It has large fleshy cabbage-like leaves, produces small white flowers and later on characteristic seed pods. Here on the beach beyond the end of Williamson Road at Lade, it almost does not go beyond a straight line towards the sea. The bend of the bay round to the buildings of Littlestone-on-Sea can be clearly seen.
©Ian Yarham
The houses on the left are at Greatstone-on-Sea and around the bend of the bay are the buildings of Littlestone-on-Sea. One origin of the two names is that the larger stones carried along by the current coming up the coast were deposited first at Greatstone, whilst the smaller ones were carried further to Littlestone.
©Ian Yarham
Lydd-on-Sea, Lade, RH&DR, Williamson Road level crossing.
©Helmut Zozmann
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking south from the public toilets along a stretch of shingle heading towards Dungeness. The curve to the east gives some idea which way the shingle bank is migrating.
©Simon Carey
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©Chris Whippet
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©Chris Whippet
Dist:0.2km<br/>Lydd-on-Sea, Lade, site of former RH&DR Lade railway station. Lade railway station was a station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England. In common with most stations on the Dungeness line of the railway (as far as The Pilot Inn), Lade station opened for business on 24 May 1928. Despite having full station status, it was never intended to be a major station. It was not even provided with hard platform surfaces, and the only construction on site was a simple, but elegant, Greenly-style waiting shelter. This had a concrete base with wooden construction above. There were glass windows in the two ends, and an open front for access. The roof included simple decoration at the apex, and overhung the front of the shelter to form an awning-type cover for a few feet outside the main building, the overhang being supported by curved wooden supports attached to the front of the shelter.
©Helmut Zozmann
Dist:0.2km<br/>Houses at Lade are half hidden by the ridge of shingle in front of them.
©Simon Carey
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©Chris Whippet
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the view from the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway as it passes through Lade between Greatstone-on-Sea and Lydd-on-Sea. After a stretch with back gardens on either side of the line, the view to the west suddenly opens up to look across the shingle to this terrace of houses.
©Ian Yarham
Dist:0.2km<br/>The shingle provides a protective barrier for the houses behind. Looking southwards towards the end of the Dungeness peninsula.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.2km<br/>The houses straggle along the coast with the Dungeness nuclear power station looming over them.
©Simon Carey

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