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Shakespeare Cliff Halt railway station
Shakespeare Cliff Halt is a private halt station on the South Eastern Main Line. It is located to the western end of the dual bore Shakespeare Cliff tunnel on the South Eastern Main Line to Folkestone, England. It never appeared in any public timetable and has been successively used by miners, the military, Channel Tunnel workmen and finally by railway staff.
== History ==
Shakespeare Cliff near Dover was the location of the first attempt to construct a tunnel under the English Channel in the late 1870s, when a diameter Beaumont-English boring machine dug a pilot tunnel from the location. The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns advocating that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences. A further bore was made in 1890 and coal was struck about below the surface; Shakespeare Colliery was opened on the site in 1896 and was producing of coal per day by 1907.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Coalfield Heritage Initiative Kent )〕
In 1913, the South Eastern and Chatham Railway opened a halt primarily for the use of miners at Dover Colliery, who continued to work the mine until its closure in 1915. The station was subsequently used by the Admiralty at least from 1920 as well as by railway staff who lived nearby in railway cottages; the halt was convenient for Shakespeare signal box and siding. The station was never advertised in any public timetable for the reason that members of the public alighting here would find themselves on an isolated wedge of flat land carved into the chalk cliff face.
For some years a watchman was based at the station and a zig-zag path was provided to give access from the side of the cliff.〔 The British Army used the station during the Second World War to serve a nearby military camp, and medical staff are also recorded as having used the halt in the post-war period.〔 Shakespeare Cliff Halt was given a new lease of life when work began on the Channel Tunnel: workmen carrying out preliminary work used the halt between November 1973 and January 1974, and it was used again in the early 1990s during the construction of Channel Tunnel and Samphire Hoe.
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