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Monument details

HER Number:TR 07 SW 18
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Leysdown station

Summary

Dis station on Sheppey Light Railway.


Grid Reference:TR 03310 70705
Map Sheet:TR07SW
Parish:LEYSDOWN, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

Full description

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Leysdown Station at eastern end of the Sheppey Light railway, opened 1901, closed 1950. A simple timber and corrugated tin clad station building with small platform canopy and single platform. Noe demolished and site used as car park (1)

From The National Monuments Record:
Site of terminal station on the Sheppey Light Railway, opened in 1901 but closed in 1950.

Historic England archive material: BF006923 LEYSDOWN STATION, LEYSDOWN


1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9450.

1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9450.

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Peter Harding The Sheppey Light Railway (author 1984) (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3003. print.
<1>XYMiscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Peter Harding The Sheppey Light Railway (author 1984). [Mapped feature: #69255 Railway station, ]

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