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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 97 SW 51
Type of record:	Building
Name:	Site of Sheerness East station

Summary

Disused station on Sheppey Light Railway, opened in 1901 and closed in 1950.

Grid Reference:	TQ 93007 73430
Map Sheet:	TQ97SW
Parish:	SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

RAILWAY STATION (RAILWAY STATION, Modern - 1901 AD to 1950 AD)

Full description

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Sheerness East Station on the Sheppey Light Railway at Halfway Houses now demolished apart from section of concrete platform on N side of line. Built 1901, closed 1950. Single pitched roof timber structure with corruagted cladding and small platform canopy (1,2). Additional site photographs of Sheerness East station (3-5).

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

Historic England archive material: BF007130 SHEERNESS EAST STATION, SITTINGBOURNE

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Site visit by D Eve May 1996 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, P Harding Sheppey Light Railway (author 1984) (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9499.

<4> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9647.

<5> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9795.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>XY	Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Site visit by D Eve May 1996. [Mapped feature: #70052 Railway station, ]
<2>XY	Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. P Harding Sheppey Light Railway (author 1984). [Mapped feature: #70052 Railway station, ]
<3>	Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3062. print.
<4>	Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4465. print.
<5>	Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3009. print.

Related records

TQ 97 SE 1071

Part of: Queenborough and Leysdown Light Railway (Monument)