sentences:  The importance to the town of the railway, however, was when the company established its locomotive works here.The railway community had its own shops, schools, pubs and bathhouse, and much of the area retains the look of a "railway town" (like Swindon or Crewe), however the works closed in 1981.Ashford became a junction with a line to Margate that was opened in 1846 and in 1851 the Marshlink Line to Hastings was opened.