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Packet Service IV London Chatham & Dover Railway Company and the Samphire Accident

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Lorraine

The London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company (LCDR) won the potential lucrative packet contract for carrying mails, both official and private, across the Channel from Dover to Calais in 1863. Two years earlier the Company’s railway lines reached the town … Continue reading →

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