Headcorn train station

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Headcorn
Headcorn station geograph-3626165-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
abbreviation HCN
Price range D.
opening August 31, 1842
location
Place / district Headcorn
county Kent
Part of the country England
Country United Kingdom
Coordinates 51 ° 9 '57 "  N , 0 ° 37' 38"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '57 "  N , 0 ° 37' 38"  E
Railway lines
List of train stations in the United Kingdom
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Headcorn station is on the South Eastern Main Line , until 1954 it was the northern terminus of the Kent and East Sussex Railway . The station and train connections are all operated by Southeastern .

history

A Railway Clearing House card from 1914

Headcorn Station opened in August 1842 as part of the extension of the South Eastern Main Line of the South Eastern Railway from Tonbridge . Like other SER stations outside of Greater London, Headcorn station was built with side platforms and a single-storey wooden station building. The South Eastern Main Line opened to Ashford in December 1842 , Folkestone in December 1843, and Dover in February 1844. A bridge between Headcorn and Staplehurst was the site of an accident in 1865.

In 1905 the station became the northern terminus of the Kent and East Sussex Railway , with a connecting track on the Ashford side of the station. The KESR had its own platform, and a corrugated iron building was moved here from Tenterden . The station, known as Headcorn Junction at KESR, was rebuilt by the Southern Railway between 1924 and 1930 , and two new through tracks were built. To this end, the platform systems were also rebuilt, including a new concrete platform in the west for KESR.

0-6-0 in front of a freight train in 1954

With the renovation, an overpass and a new signal box for the main line were built. A connecting track was also built between the station section of the KESR and the line towards London, the KESR facilities now consisted of two loops and a siding.

After the decline in passenger and freight transport, the KESR between Headcorn and Tenterden was completely closed in 1954. In 1962, the goods loading facilities were shut down and the freight yard became a parking lot. However, the original SER buildings survived until 1988, when they were demolished by British Rail as part of a modernization. A new red brick station building was officially inaugurated on May 11, 1989 by Ann Widdecombe , then Maidstone's lower house; Weather shelters were built on the platforms. In 1994 a new freight train loop was built for freight train connections in the Channel Tunnel .

Connections (as of December 2016)

Outside of rush hour trains usually run like this:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HP White: A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Southern England (Volume 2) , David St. John Thomas, Nairn, 1992, ISBN 978-0-946537-77-8 , pp. 28-30
  2. ^ Edwin Course: The Railways of Southern England: The Main Lines , BT Batsford, London, 1973, ISBN 0-7134-0490-6 , p. 38
  3. ^ Stephen Garrett, The Kent & East Sussex Light Railway , The Oakwood Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-85361-516-3 , p. 33
  4. ^ HP White: Forgotten Railways: South-East England (Forgotten Railways Series) , David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1987, ISBN 978-0-946537-37-2 , p. 43
  5. ^ John Scott-Morgan: An Illustrated History of the Kent and East Sussex Railway , OPC Railprint, Hersham, 2007, ISBN 978-0-86093-608-4 , p. 59
  6. ↑ Vic Mitchell, Keith Smith: Branch Line to Tenterden , Middleton Press, Midhurst, 1988, ISBN 978-0-906520-21-5
  7. ^ HP White, 1987, p. 43.
  8. ↑ CR Clinker: Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830–1977 , Avon-Anglia Publications & Services, Bristol, October 1978, ISBN 0-905466-19-5 , p. 61
  9. ^ Kent Rail, Headcorn .
  10. ↑ Network Rail timetable board 207

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