{"id":543,"date":"2006-07-31T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:15:40","slug":"disused-station-folkestone-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/disused-station-folkestone-harbour\/","title":{"rendered":"Disused station: Folkestone Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Folkestone Harbour station, Kent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/folkestone-harbour-04.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think it would be possible to stumble upon a derelict station untouched by graffiti and looking like something just closed by Beeching in the 60s, but as disused stations go, Folkestone Harbour is a beaut!<\/p>\n<p>The signal box is still there in immaculate condition, the canopies have lost their glass, there&#8217;s a weighing machine without an arm, there&#8217;s still one pair of heavily rusted tracks running into the station and there&#8217;s even a signal pointlessly stuck on red after the track has been lifted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/folkestone-harbour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Folkestone Harbour station: photo report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Folkestone Harbour station, Kent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/folkestone-harbour-16.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think it would be possible to stumble upon a derelict station untouched by graffiti and looking like something just closed by Beeching in the 60s, but as disused &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/folkestone-harbour-04.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-8L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31594,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/31594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}