Allhallows-on-Sea railway station

Allhallows-on-Sea
SECR H Class at station in 1958.
Location	Allhallows-on-Sea, Medway England
Grid reference	TQ844783
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Post-grouping	Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways
Key dates
16 May 1932	Opened
4 December 1961	Closed

Allhallows-on-Sea station was the railway station for Allhallows-on-Sea, Kent 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.

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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links[]

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

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