Chatham Central was the terminus of the Chatham Extension from Strood serving the towns of Chatham and

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. The station was opened by the South Eastern Railway which merged with the

London, Chatham and Dover Railway The London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR or LC&DR) was a railway company in south-eastern England created on 1 August 1859, when the East Kent Railway was given parliamentary approval to change its name. Its lines ran through London and no ...

to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899. After the merger the SE & CR deemed that the Chatham Extension was an unnecessary duplication of the line and stations that it inherited from the LC & DR, and therefore the Extension and its stations, including Chatham Central, was closed in 1911. Apart from the present railway bridge (part of

Rochester Bridge Rochester Bridge in Rochester, Medway was for centuries the lowest fixed crossing of the River Medway in South East England. There have been several generations of bridge at this spot, and the current "bridge" is in fact four separate bridges ...

), no trace of the station or the Chatham Extension is evident today. Houses on Doust Way have been built over the site of the station.http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=7602.15

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Disused railway stations in Kent Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1892 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1911 Chatham, Kent 1892 establishments in England 1911 disestablishments in England {{Kent-railstation-stub