North Kent Line - Stations

Stations

Train services working the Line today take the following route; the first ten miles (16 km) passes through many tunnels, included on the list:

  • Lewisham
  • Blackheath - here is the junction for the Bexleyheath Line
    • Blackheath Tunnel
    • here is the freight branch to Angerstein Wharf
    • junction for the line from Greenwich and the eastern connection with the London and Greenwich Railway, opened in 1878
  • Charlton
    • Charlton Tunnel
    • Mount Street Tunnel
    • Dockyard Tunnel
  • Woolwich Dockyard
    • Coleman Street Tunnel
    • George IV Tunnel
    • Calderwood Street Tunnel
    • Cross Street Tunnel
  • Woolwich Arsenal
  • Plumstead - here the Royal Arsenal railway system connected with the main line
  • Church Manor Way Halt - closed
  • Abbey Wood
  • Belvedere
  • Erith
  • Slade Green -includes the large carriage-servicing depot
    • here is the triangular junction with the Bexleyheath Line
    • here is the triangular junction with the Dartford Loop Line
  • Dartford
  • Stone Crossing
  • Greenhithe - to which has been added "for Bluewater"
    • Greenhithe Tunnel
  • Swanscombe
  • Northfleet - this station is only 305m or so from Ebbsfleet International as the crow flies, but it is at least a 1km walk between the two stations.
  • Gravesend: was originally named Gravesend Central to differentiate it from the ex-London, Chatham and Dover Railway station at Gravesend West which closed in 1968
  • Milton Road Halt-closed
  • Denton Halt- closed
  • Milton Range Halt-closed
  • Hoo Junction Staff Halt, where the line branches ("The Hundred of Hoo Railway") to Grain. Currently for freight services (not electrified)
  • Higham
    • Higham and Strood tunnel - actually two tunnels with a gap of 100 yards (91 m) between.
  • Strood - the junction for the Medway Valley Line.

The North Kent Line connects with the LCDR Chatham Main Line at Rochester Bridge Junction, about 200 m beyond Strood station. It totals some 30 miles (48 km) in length.

Read more about this topic:  North Kent Line

Famous quotes containing the word stations:

    “I can’t quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world’s problems.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
    —Northrop Frye (b. 1912)

    “mourn

    The majesty and burning of the child’s death.
    I shall not murder
    The mankind of her going with a grave truth
    Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)