Paddock Wood Railway Station

Paddock Wood
Data
Location in the network	Separation station
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	3
abbreviation	PDW
Price range	C2
opening	August 31, 1842
location
City / municipality	Paddock Wood
county	Kent
Part of the country	England
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51 ° 10 '56 "  N , 0 ° 23' 20"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '56 "  N , 0 ° 23' 20"  E
Railway lines
South Eastern Main Line Medway Valley Line formerly Hawkhurst Branch
List of train stations in the United Kingdom

Paddock Wood
Legend to Tonbridge siding B2160 Maidstone Road Medway Valley Line to Maidstone Hawkhurst Branch Line to Marden

The English station Paddock Wood is at the junction of the Medway Valley Line from the South Eastern Main Line . The station and connections are operated by Southeastern . The station has three platforms.

history

The South Eastern Railway opened a route from Redhill via Ashford to Dover in 1842 . This route circumvented Maidstone . A station called Maidstone Road was opened on August 31, 1842 in a rural location eight miles north of the city. The village of Paddock Wood expanded rapidly around the station area. When the branch line to Maidstone West was opened in 1844 , the station was renamed Paddock Wood . Another branch line - the Hawkhurst Branch - to the village of Hawkhurst existed between 1892 and 1961.

The station has two tracks with outside platforms and two through tracks in between. There is also a head platform for the Medway Valley Line . Another head platform existed on the other side while the Hawkhurst Branch was in operation. The station building stands on the side for trains going north; There are long roofs on both platforms. The platforms are connected by an overpass.

Accidents

At 3:40 a.m. on May 5, 1919, a freight train from Bricklayers Arms to Margate ran over stopping signals and hit another freight train a little west of Paddock Wood. The train to Margate was pulled by the C-Class 721. It had 50 freight cars including three brake cars . The other train was hauled by the C-Class 61. The stoker on this train died in the accident. Although the main reason for the accident was that the driver of the train to Margate did not follow the signals, the dispatcher at the signal box in the east of Tonbridge was also reprimanded. The reason for this was that he did not give the driver sufficient warning that the route was not clear, even though the train had already been accepted by the dispatcher in Paddock Wood. The dispatcher in Paddock Wood had accepted the train with regulation 5 - "Section free, but station or branch blocked".

When a freight train rolled back in Paddock Wood station on December 8, 1961 at 2:02 a.m., a freight train passing through to Tonbridge ran over signals indicating stopping and collided with it. The debris from the accident piled under the bridge of the B2160 Maidstone Road. The route was blocked for over twelve hours.

Connections (as of December 2016)

Outside of rush hour trains usually run like this:

• three trains per hour to Tonbridge , two of which continue to London Charing Cross .
• one train an hour to Dover Priory
• one train an hour to Ramsgate via Canterbury West
• one train an hour to Strood via Maidstone West and the Medway Valley Line .

bus connections

Bus routes 6, 203, 205 and 296 leave from near the train station.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Body, Geoffrey. PSL Field Guide - Railways of the Southern Region (1984), p. 142. Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge. ISBN 0-85059-664-5
2. ^ Body, page 143.
3. ^ Alan Earnshaw: Trains in Trouble, Volume Eight . Atlantic, Penryn 1993, ISBN 0-906899-52-4 , pp. 8-9.
4. ^ Rail Crash: Inquiry begins . In: Tonbridge Free Press , December 15, 1961. 
5. ^ Train crash at Paddock Wood , British Pathé. December 1961. Retrieved November 20, 2012. 
6. ↑ ^{a b} National Rail timetable 207
7. ↑ National Rail timetable board 208

Web links

Commons : Paddock Wood Railway Station  - collection of images

• Information on kentrail.org (English)
• Paddock Wood Railway Station on a scrolling map from 1940
• Departure times and station information

←	Lines			→
Tonbridge		South Eastern Main Line Southeastern		Marden
Tonbridge		Medway Valley Line Southeastern		Contribution