Margate

CRS Code	MAR
Collected date	18/01/14

Inspired by Eliot's ability to connect nothing with nothing, I took a day trip to Margate and apart from finding a fascinating place with a mysterious shell grotto and modern art museum, I collected its station, served by HS1 trains to St. Pancras. The station frontage:

Looking along the station frontage from its western end:

The central arch:

The canopy under the central arch:

The front is decorated with roundels:

Inside the ticket hall:

A close up of the clock:

The station building backs on to platform 1. On platform 1 looking westwards:

On platform 1, looking east at platforms 1 and 2:

At the western end of platform 1, looking along the line:

Looking behind a railing on platform 1, a disused platform and canopy can be seen:

Back round the front of the station building, the disused canopy can be seen behind railings:

Peeking through the twigs, the disused platform edge can be seen:

Under the canopy on platform 1, looking east:

At the eastern end of the station is an old water tower:

A subway connects the two outside platforms to the island. Here are the steps down to said subway:

On platform 4, looking west with the island platform 3 on the right:

The building on platform 4:

Under the canopy on platform 4 looking west:

On the opposite side of platform 4 is another disused platform:

All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001