Re #135:
Richard, nice to meet you at the Dover Forever event and to learn that you are another steam buff. We have been saying on here for donkeys years that we would love to see a rail link re-established to the Marine Station. What better way could there be to join a cruise ship than to travel down from London in a rake of gleaming Pullman coaches hauled by an immaculately turned out Bulleid Pacific? We feel that this would be an additional experience adding glamour and excitement to the start or end of a cruise that the cruise operators and DHB have both missed.
The Marine Station has, of course, been rebuilt into Cruise Terminal 1. All the track has been removed and the spaces between the platforms filled in and used for carparking. All the trackwork in the station throat has also been taken up and tarmacced over for lorry parking. It would not seem too difficult or outrageously expensive to lay a single track from the mainline, embedded in the tarmac, around to a platform constructed along the seaward side of the Marine Station. Passengers could then alight and pass through the Cruise Terminal facilities to join their vessel on the other side of the terminal.