Ash Town railway station

Ash Town
Site of the station in 1990
Location
Place	Ash
Area	Dover (district)
Grid reference	TR286581
Operations
Pre-grouping	East Kent Light Railway
Platforms	1
History
16 October 1916	Opened
30 October 1948	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Ash Town railway station was a railway station on the East Kent Light Railway. The station served the village of Ash.^[1]

History

Opened by the East Kent Light Railway on 16 October 1916, it attracted fleeting interest from the Southern Railway. However this faded and the railway stayed independent until being absorbed into the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It closed to passenger traffic on 30 October that year. The track was removed in May 1954. Today there is no trace of the station or the railway as the site is now landscaped into a field.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Woodnesborough		16 October 1916 to 31 December 1947 East Kent Light Railway		Staple
Woodnesborough		1 January 1948 to 30 October 1948 BR(S)		Staple

References

1. East Kent Light Railway

• 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.

Sources

• Vic Mitchell, Keith Smith (1989). The East Kent Light Railway. Midhurst, Sussex, UK: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-61-4.

External links

• East Kent light railway page at the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum website
• Sub Brit Page

Coordinates: 51°16′34″N 1°16′34″E / 51.276160°N 1.276221°E