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Brasted railway station

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The line was the subject of a revival/preservation attempt which was unsuccessful as the Association could not raise the required funds to rebuild a bridge at Chevening which had been demolished to widen the A21 Sevenoaks Bypass. The track was lifted by 1967 and the station demolished in 1977 during
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The station approach to Brasted is now a works road leading on to the M25, with the actual accessway covering the site of the former booking hall. Just beyond that area is the former station goods yard, formerly occupied by a local
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The station was built by the Westerham Valley Railway (WVR) opened on 3 July 1881. The WVR was taken over by the
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which closed the Westerham Branch on 30 October 1961 due to low patronage.
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in 1923 and thereafter on nationalisation of the railways to the
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that was constructed along the route of the disused railway.
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Brasted railway station, 1896 on an Ordnance Survey map
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Brasted
Sevenoaks
51°16′59″N 0°06′18″E / 51.283°N 0.105°E / 51.283; 0.105
Grid reference
TQ467558
South Eastern Railway
SECR
Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Brasted
Kent
Westerham Valley branch line
M25 motorway
South Eastern Railway
South Eastern and Chatham Railway
Southern Railway
railway grouping
Southern Region
British Railways


Westerham branch
coal merchant
Westerham
Chevening Halt
Dunton Green


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