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carried out maintenance works. Just after this it was purchased from
British Rail by Kent County Council under the terms of compulsory purchase; the Council demolished the road bridge at Chevening in order to build the A21 Sevenoaks Bypass. Whilst the Council was happy to lease the line to the Association this was on condition that the Association had to raise the required funds to construct an overbridge for the now widened A21 at
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covers the footprint of the former station site and goods yard and is named after this locomotive, and backs on to original railway cottages. There is no plaque to commemorate the station's history, the only reminder of it being the base of the goods yard crane which is situated on a grass verge near
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1096:New Romney and Littlestone-on-Sea
544:Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
275:South Eastern and Chatham Railway
16:Former railway station in England
1412:Disused railway stations in Kent
1221:Rochester Common (SER Rochester)
1206:Ramsgate Harbour (LCDR Ramsgate)
239:Westerham Valley Railway Company
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1432:1881 establishments in England
1216:Rochester Bridge (LCDR Strood)
366:The "Westerham Flyer" was the
293:upon nationalisation in 1948.
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265:as an ambitious extension to
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1263:Ebbsfleet and Cliffsend Halt
1211:Ramsgate Town (SER Ramsgate)
915:Westerham Valley branch line
746:Kent and East Sussex Railway
379:and into nearby allotments.
243:Westerham Valley Branch Line
206:to parallel what is now the
1268:St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay
1201:Margate Sands (SER Margate)
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1179:Isle of Thanet remodelling.
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880:Tilmanstone Colliery Halt
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216:Redhill to Tonbridge Line
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368:Class H 0-4-4T No. 31518
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999:South Eastern Main Line
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774:Tenterden St. Michael's
247:South Eastern Main Line
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1022:Shakespeare Cliff Halt
1017:Folkestone Warren Halt
663:Hundred of Hoo Railway
182:served the village of
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630:Hawkhurst branch line
572:Canterbury North Lane
271:South Eastern Railway
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1323:Maidstone East line
1246:via Canterbury West
1244:Ashford to Ramsgate
1139:War Department Halt
943:Gravesend West Line
726:Grain Crossing Halt
716:Stoke Junction Halt
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269:was envisaged. The
261:with provision for
230:, c) the "pull" of
44:General information
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552:Whitstable Harbour
326:Following station
314:Preceding station
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754:Headcorn Junction
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711:Middle Stoke Halt
696:High Halstow Halt
681:Milton Range Halt
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372:industrial estate
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362:Present day
138:3 July 1881
1406:Categories
1046:Dover Town
961:Southfleet
850:Roman Road
812:Eastchurch
638:Horsmonden
478:51°16′13″N
417:References
377:embankment
241:built the
224:Limpsfield
1437:Westerham
1332:Hothfield
1081:Lydd Town
923:Westerham
764:Biddenden
653:Hawkhurst
648:Cranbrook
643:Goudhurst
557:Tankerton
481:0°04′28″E
331:Terminus
299:Chevening
245:from the
200:Sevenoaks
184:Westerham
133:Key dates
79:Platforms
57:Sevenoaks
53:Westerham
27:Westerham
989:Sandgate
885:Ash Town
875:Knowlton
822:Leysdown
405:See also
228:Nutfield
220:Godstone
210:and the
208:A25 road
72:TQ448544
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194:History
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865:Eastry
691:Cliffe
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595:Bridge
232:London
149:Closed
141:Opened
92:Status
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731:Grain
610:Elham
267:Oxted
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