Bradshaw, anyone?

[PeterWillis]

In Riddle of the Sands, 'Carruthers' imples that he leaves London for Flushing from Victoria. One would have expected Liverpool Street and Harwich, but he also mentions the Thames estuary and the Kent Cliffs, so I'm wondering if anyone out there who happens to have a 1901 or thereabouts Bradshaw, could look it up and tell me what port the Flushing boats left from in those days.

 

[FWB]

Dont have a Bradshaw, but via Google I have found this so far http://www.prints4u.co.uk/malroot/parkestone/parkestonpride.htm The Pullman Boat Train "The Flushing Continental" ran from Liverpool St to Parkstone Quay West at Harwich.
Also look here http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Queenborough.html for a Kent connection.

 

[alldownwind]

The remains of the old Flushing Ferry pier lie in the mud on your port side as you enter the Swale at Queenborough. They are a very nasty area of wooden stumps, guarded by two lit dolphins.
You certainly would go from Victoria to get to Queenborough, changing trains at Sittingbourne. I imagine you'd use Liverpool Street to get to Harwich.
Certainly anyone leaving from Queenborough to go to Vlissingen would see plenty of 'Kent cliffs', first of all along the north coast of Sheppey, then, if taking the inshore route to the N.Foreland, there are similar cliffs between Herne Bay and Reculver, and chalk cliffs on Thanet up to and including the Foreland itself.