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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 SW 21
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Headcorn Junction Station

Summary

Approximate location of the former Northern terminus of the Kent and East Sussex Light Railway opened in 1905. Following it's absorption in British Rail in 1948, the railway was extended to the former South Eastern Railways station on the London-Dover main line, and the old terminus was closed in 1954.


Grid Reference:TQ 837 439
Map Sheet:TQ84SW
Parish:HEADCORN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Site of Headcorn junction station.

From The National Monuments Record:
Approximate location of the former Northern terminus of the Kent and East Sussex Light Railway opened in 1905. Following it's absorption in British Rail in 1948, the railway was extended to the former South Eastern Railways station on the London-Dover main line, and the old terminus was closed in 1954.

Historic England archive material: BF006503 HEADCORN JUNCTION STATION, HEADCORN

Related records

TQ 84 SW 1Part of: LONDON AND DOVER RAILWAY (Monument)
TQ 84 SW 13Part of: Tenterden to Headcorn branch line (dismantled) (Monument)