Ash Town railway station was a railway station on the

East Kent Light Railway The East Kent Light Railway was part of the H. F. Stephens, Colonel Stephens group of cheaply built rural light railways in England. Holman Fred Stephens was engineer from its inception, subsequently becoming director and manager. The line ...

. The station served the village of Ash, Kent, England.Mitchell & Smith (1989)

History

Opened by the East Kent Light Railway on 16 October 1916, it attracted fleeting interest from the Southern Railway. However this faded and the railway stayed independent until being absorbed into the

Southern Region of British Railways The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s. The region covered south London, southern England and the sout ...

nationalisation Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

in 1948. It closed to passenger traffic after the last train on 30 October that year. The track was removed in May 1954. Today there is no trace of the station or the railway as the site is now landscaped into a field.

References

* *

Sources

External links

East Kent light railway page at the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum websiteSub Brit Page
{{Coord, 51.276160, 1.276221 , format=dms, type:railwaystation_region:GB, display=title Disused railway stations in Kent Former East Kent Light Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1916 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1948 1916 establishments in England 1948 disestablishments in England