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Chevening Halt is a now-closed intermediate railway station on the Westerham branch line in
- Nick Catford - Accessed 8 September 2007 It was unmanned and consisted of a platform sufficient to accommodate 2 coaches and small waiting shelter with access via a staircase to the adjacent road bridge. Operations were taken over by the Southern Railway with the 1923 railway grouping and thereafter by the Southern Region ofWesterham branch:the site of Chevening Halt.
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Image:Chevening Halt Station 1.jpg, Site of the Halt
Image:Chevening Halt Station 2.jpg, M25 looking southwards from the Halt site to where the bridge would have been constructed
Chevening Halt is a now-closed intermediate railway station on the Westerham branch line in Kent
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The line was built as single track
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with provision for double track
A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.
Overview
In the earliest days of railways in the United Kingdom, most lin ...
. The station was built by South Eastern and Chatham Railway
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(SECR) and opened on either 16Southern Railway Halts, p41 or 19 April 1906.Subterranea Britannica's page on Chevening Halt railway station- Nick Catford - Accessed 8 September 2007 It was unmanned and consisted of a platform sufficient to accommodate 2 coaches and small waiting shelter with access via a staircase to the adjacent road bridge. Operations were taken over by the Southern Railway with the 1923 railway grouping and thereafter by the Southern Region of
British Rail
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ways which closed the line on 30 October 1961 ostensibly due to low patronage. The line was the subject of a revival/preservation attempt which was scuppered by plans for the M25 which called for the use of much of the route of the line.
The former station site is today a rough piece of overgrown scrubland bordering Junction 5 of the M25; this motorway is infamous as having been responsible for the dashing of any hopes of preserving the Westerham Branch. In 1964, Kent County Council had demanded from the Westerham Valley Railway Association, an association seeking to retain the railway for heritage operations, the sum of £26,215 (approximately £337,000 today) for a bridge to carry the railway line over the M25; failure to pay this sum would lead to the immediate in-filling of the Chevening cutting
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(in which the Halt lay), which is exactly what happened when funds could not be raised. According to one account, the halt platform was buried and remains there to this day./ref>
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*Westerham
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* Dunton Green
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See also
* List of closed railway stations in BritainReferences
Sources
* Disused railway stations in Kent Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1906 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961 1906 establishments in England 1961 disestablishments in England {{Kent-railstation-stub