Allhallows-on-Sea railway station

Allhallows-on-Sea
Location of the station (1995)
Location
Place	Allhallows-on-Sea
Area	Medway
Grid reference	TQ844783
Operations
Post-grouping	Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
16 May 1932	Opened
4 December 1961	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Allhallows-on-Sea station was the railway station for Allhallows-on-Sea from 1932 to 1961.

It was opened partly on the 14 and fully on 16 May 1932. It had an island platform with a run-round loop. Originally the branch from Stoke Junction was single track, but it was doubled in 1935, and singled again in 1957.

The station closed on 4 December 1961 and was demolished in 1975, although the listed water tank remains.^[1]^[2]

History

Opened by the Southern Railway the line passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948 and was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

Preceding station		Following station
Middle Stoke Halt	16-5-1932 to 15-7-1932 SR Hundred of Hoo Railway	Terminus
Stoke Junction Halt	16-7-1932 to 31-12-1947 SR Hundred of Hoo Railway	Terminus
Stoke Junction Halt	1-1-1948 to 3-12-1961 BR(S) Hundred of Hoo Railway	Terminus

References

Sources

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

Allhallows-on-Sea station on 1946 O. S. map

Closed railway stations in Kent

Canterbury and Whitstable Railway	Whitstable Harbour Tankerton South Street Blean and Tyler Hill Canterbury North Lane

Elham Valley Railway	Canterbury South Bridge Bishopsbourne Barham Elham Lyminge Cheriton Halt

Hawkhurst Branch Line	Horsmonden Goudhurst Cranbrook Hawkhurst

Hundred of Hoo Railway	Milton Road Halt Denton halt Milton Range Halt Uralite Halt Cliffe High Halstow Halt Sharnal Street Beluncle Halt Middle Stoke Halt Stoke Junction Halt Allhallows-on-Sea Grain Crossing Halt Grain Port Victoria

Kent and East Sussex Railway	Frittenden Road Biddenden High Halden Road Tenterden St. Michael's

Sheppey Light Railway	Sheerness East East Minster Minster on Sea Brambledown Halt Eastchurch Harty Road Halt Leysdown

East Kent Light Railway	Richboro Port Sandwich Road Roman Road Poison Cross Woodnesborough Eastry Eastry South Knowlton Tilmanstone Colliery Halt Ash Town Staple Wingham Colliery Wingham Town Canterbury Road

Westerham Valley Branch Line	Westerham Brasted Chevening Halt

Gravesend West Line	Gravesend West Rosherville Halt Southfleet Longfield Halt

Sandgate Branch	Hythe Sandgate

South Eastern Main Line	Smeeth Folkestone East Folkestone Warren Halt Shakespeare Cliff Halt

Dover area	Dover Harbour Dover Town Admiralty Pier Dover Marine

Marshlink Line Dungeness branches	Brookland Halt Lydd Town Lydd-on-Sea Halt Greatstone-on-Sea Halt New Romney and Littlestone-on-Sea Dungeness (SER)

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway	Prince of Wales Halt Botolph's Bridge Halt Golden Sands Halt Greatstone Dunes War Department Halt Lade The Pilot (Inn) Britannia Points Halt

SER & LCDR merger remodelling	Ashford (LCDR) Ramsgate Harbour (LCDR Ramsgate) Ramsgate Town (SER Ramsgate) Margate Sands (SER Margate) Rochester Bridge (LCDR Strood) Rochester Common (SER Rochester) Chatham Central (SER Chatham) Strood (1st)

Other lines	Ashford to Margate via Canterbury West Chislet Colliery Halt Grove Ferry and Upstreet Ebbsfleet and Cliffsend Halt St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay Chatham Main Line Stonehall and Lydden Halt Margate East Maidstone East Line Ashford West Hothfield Medway Valley Line Teston Crossing Halt Tovil Sheerness Line Kings Ferry Bridge North Halt Queenborough Pier Sheerness Dockyard

Coordinates: 51°28′20″N 0°39′15″E / 51.47234°N 0.65417°E / 51.47234; 0.65417

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