The North Kent Line is a railway line which runs from Lewisham Vale junction (at the country end of St Johns station) where it splits from the Southeastern Main Line to Rochester Bridge junction (just south of Strood station) where it links up with the Chatham Main Line
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Famous quotes containing the words north and/or line:
“Come see the north wind’s masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.