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LMGLM:1994.178

Summary: map, photocopy of map showing proposed railway line from Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, to Keyhaven, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, possibly about 1900s-10sIdentification note: In 1934, the Keyhaven Syndicate developed the idea of replacing the Lymington ferry with a new service from Keyhaven. There were advantages to this, not least to stop the need for dredging the...

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Summary: map, photocopy of map showing proposed railway line from Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, to Keyhaven, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, possibly about 1900s-10s

Identification note: In 1934, the Keyhaven Syndicate developed the idea of replacing the Lymington ferry with a new service from Keyhaven. There were advantages to this, not least to stop the need for dredging the Lymington river at considerable cost. Southern Railway would take care of the construction of the railway, and a new ferry company would be formed, through the issue of public shares. The railway would follow the same route devised for the tunnel, from the Lymington branch, through Mount Pleasant and Pennington, but a road would be built running parallel to it. Part of the roadway site was cleared in the vicinity of Crewkerne Cottage on the Lymington side of Efford Hill. There were no engineering difficulties on this part of the route, because the ground was gravel, but further south the engineers had to deal with marsh land. At Keyhaven a long pier would need to be constructed, because the water was no more than 8 feet deep for about three quarters of a mile out to sea. The pier was to be T-shaped, so that the ferries could dock against the wind. Modern ferries were to be used, where ‘private motor cars, charabancs and six-wheelers could drive straight on to the ferry, instead of being dumped on to a barge and towed by a tug’, as on the Lymington crossing. The crossing would be cut from 4.5 to two miles, and would take about 10 minutes. There were also plans to lay a magnetic cable on the sea bed, so the ferries could navigate in foggy weather.

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