page_title: Hundred of Hoo Railway
section_title: The Admiralty
hierarchical_section_title: Hundred of Hoo Railway / New freight opportunities / The Admiralty
caption_attribution_description: English: Sidings on Mineral Railway Right sidings go towards the Container Terminal, the left sidings go to Medway Power Station. These are the end of the lines from Hoo Junction. In the background is Medway Power Station.
context_page_description: The Hundred of Hoo Railway is a railway line in Kent, England, following the North Kent Line from Gravesend before diverging at Hoo Junction near Shorne Marshes and continuing in an easterly direction across the Hoo Peninsula, passing near the villages of Cooling, High Halstow, Cliffe and Stoke before reaching the Isle of Grain and the container port on its eastern tip, Thamesport. There used to be a short branch line leading from Stoke Junction to the coastal town of Allhallows but this closed from 4 December 1961, the same date on which the Hundred of Hoo line was closed to passenger services.
context_section_description: The Admiralty had been based near Chattenden since 1891 where there was a School of Military Engineering and barracks. A narrow gauge track was laid between 1873 and 1905 - the Chattenden and Upnor Railway - to transport men and munitions to and from the School. An armament depot was constructed in 1902 in order to supply the fleet and in 1905 the narrow gauge track was extended northwards to connect with the Hundred of Hoo line at Sharnal Street. By the end of the 1920s the line saw regular freight services to and from the depot, a service which continued until the narrow gauge track was lifted in December 1965.
caption: Sidings near Medway Power Station
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