Ghost stations , Abandoned Stations and Disued stations . Disappeared railway lines in England kent

"Disused railway stations in Kent"
Abandoned railway stations in Kent
Disappeared railway stations in Kent
A
Allhallows-on-Sea railway station
Ash Town railway station
Ashford West railway station
B
Biddenden railway station on the kent and East Sussex Railway
Brasted railway station destroyed railway line for the M25
Brookland Halt railway station
C
Cheriton Halt railway station
Chevening Halt railway station
Cliffe railway station
Cranbrook (Kent) railway station part of the kent and East Sussex Railway
D
Dover Harbour railway station
Dungeness (SER) railway station
E
East Minster railway station
Eastchurch railway station
Eastry railway station
24. Eastry South railway station
25. Elham railway station
26. Folkestone East railway station
27. Folkestone Harbour railway station
28. Folkestone Warren Halt railway station
29. Frittenden Road railway station
30. Golden Sands Halt railway station
31. Goudhurst railway station
32. Grain Crossing Halt railway station
33. Grain railway station
34. Gravesend West railway station
35. Greatstone Dunes railway station
36. Greatstone-on-Sea Halt railway station
37. Grove Ferry and Upstreet railway station
38. Harty Road Halt railway station
39. Hawkhurst railway station
40. Headcorn railway station
41. High Halden Road railway station
42. High Halstow Halt railway station
43. Horsmonden railway station
44. Hythe railway station (SER)
45. Kings Ferry Bridge North Halt railway station
46. Knowlton railway station
47. Lade railway station
48. Leysdown railway station
49. Longfield Halt railway station
50. Lullingstone railway station
51. Lydd Town railway station
52. Lydd-on-Sea Halt railway station
53. Middle Stoke Halt railway station
54. Milton Range Halt railway station
55. Milton Road Halt railway station
56. Minster on Sea railway station
57. New Romney and Littlestone-on-Sea railway station
58. Poison Cross railway station
59. Port Victoria railway station
60. Prince of Wales Halt railway station
61. Ramsgate Harbour railway station
62. Ramsgate Town railway station
63. Richboro Port railway station
64. Rochester Bridge railway station
65. Rochester Common railway station
66. Roman Road railway station (Kent)
67. Rosherville Halt railway station
68. Rosherville Halt railway station
69. Sandgate railway station
70. Sandwich Road railway station
71. Shakespeare Cliff Halt railway station
72. Sheerness East railway station
73. Smeeth railway station
74. Southfleet railway station
75. Staple railway station
76. Stoke Junction Halt railway station
77. Strood (1st) railway station
78. Swanley Junction railway station
79. Tenterden St. Michael's railway station
80. Teston Crossing Halt railway station
81. The Pilot Inn railway station
82. Tilmanstone Colliery Halt railway station
83. Tovil railway station
84. Tunbridge Wells West railway station
85. Uralite Halt railway station
86. War Department Halt railway station
87. Westerham railway station
88. Whitstable Harbour railway station
89. Wingham (Canterbury Road) railway station
90. Wingham Colliery railway station
91. Wingham Town railway station
92. Woodnesborough railway station
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Music: Tucson,Silent Partner; KZbin Audio Library
Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War. Since then, the term has come to be used to describe any disused station on an underground railway line, especially those actively passed through by passenger trains.
An abandoned (or disused) railway station is a building or structure which was constructed to serve as a railway station but has fallen into disuse. There are various circumstances when this may occur - a railway company may fall bankrupt, or the station may be closed due to the failure of economic activitiy such as insufficient passenger numbers, operational reasons such as the diversion or replacement of the line. In some instances, the railway line may continue in operation while the station is closed. Additionally, stations may sometimes be resited along the route of the line to new premises - examples of this include opening a replacement station nearer to the centre of population, or building a larger station on a less restricted site to cope with high passenger numbers.

[@HLKTravels]

I'm from Pakistan and I'm a Railway lover and this video makes me sad, nice video 👍❤

[@behappyynot]

I marked it "Like"out of respect for you all taking the time to record the passing of these stations though sad to see them gone, I lived in Ash in the '50 s had heard of the line but never seen Ash Town station, thanks

[@mutualbeard]

A station without tracks is like a boat marooned on a dry sea.

[@michaelrawson6261]

There's something creepy but really fascinating about these old disused railway stations.

[@dryliner65]

Good video , very interesting locations .

[@philippaine]

If you had a public vote on the most loathed person in England I reckon Mr Breeching would finish quite high!

[@beeble2003]

Despite the fact that he only closed three of the thirty stations mentioned in this video...

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

Also Edwards, thatchers coal mine executioner.

[@Dave.Thatcher1]

Always sad for me to see any rail lines closed, as I was a signalman on B R back in the 60's to early 70's..........Crystal Palace.....Hayes (Kent)..... Leigham Junction (between West Norwood/Tulse Hill/Streatham Hill). Ended my days as a Signalman at Twickenham West Junction. Modernisation of the Signalling in the area, and elsewhere in the Southern region meant many of the old Signal Boxes being redundant + the Signalmen. I believe the plan now (nearly at completion) is for around 12? signalling centres, controlling most of the UK Railways.

[@Crewecabking]

I'm in tears it's so sad to see this kind of stuff :(

[@HLKTravels]

Tom Bayne same feelings bro for this video

[@caseyjones4849]

H L K Travels sort ur life out u mug

[@spgranorthiam123]

I remember Ahallows Station we use to travel by a glorious steam engine /carriages, from Gravesend Station happy days, if only they knew what we had, they threw it all away, and for what?

[@johncourtneidge]

Magnificent, thank-you!

[@chris2903]

7:17 I live in Horsmonden there is a garage called old station garage. Wonder why? Because it was the old station. The old Trainline runs behind my garden. Really wide space of like 100 m or so and steep walls each side. I’ve been down there a couple times and you can get to the track to see it if you dig down beneath the leaves in summer. It’s a really overgrown patch though. You can walk the hole way through for about a mile or 2 before you get to a tunnel heading east. At the other end of this tunnel the mud ditch is about 50 m but very high and steep. There is some cool old trash and that end of the railway. Unfortunately when they built a house there they filled up the rest so you have to dig down 10 m or so to get to the track there

[@polestar696]

Very interesting video. Thanks.

[@jazzman1626]

For those of us who hate these “perilous times”, this is like a horror film.

[@Bassmanfallon]

I got to 20 seconds and stopped.The grim reaper piano music is probably not what Spielberg would have added to this.But as they say, not everyone is Spielberg.You take care and have a really nice day!

[@cheekyaraharya2464]

Folkstone bridge is now a pavement with the tracks remaining

[@patrickstorr2488]

Brilliant video but too many errors with place names. Biddenden (not on KESR, and never was), Cliffe, East Minster, Eastchurch, Folkestone, wrong 4 times), Horsmonden, and Headcorn was never closed, just a side platform. Very busy station today between Tonbridge and Ashford.

[@madisonbaldwin3445]

Great video

[@kayhalliwell4404]

This video makes me feel very sad.

[@normathomas8276]

Some of these could still be reinstated very wrong put the freight on the rails better for the environment

[@retrogamelover2012]

I'm sure Folkstone Harbour could be renovated and preserved. Even if it was as a small, heritage line, of sorts.

[@beeble2003]

@@retrogamelover2012 Folkestone Harbour wouldn't be viable as a heritage line: it was the terminus of a three-quarter-mile branch from the site of the former Folkestone East station. Although that station no longer exists, the line it was on is the main line from Folkestone to Dover. So any heritage line would only be able to run for about two-thirds of a mile from Folkestone Harbour, stop short of the main line, turn around and come back again -- who'd pay for that? You'd also have to factor in the huge maintenance costs of the bridge over Folkestone harbour, and the inconvenience of a level crossing with a main road.

[@awood1604]

Beautifully sad

[@keiga9927]

This is so sad they need to reopen these for tourist attractions old is beautiful

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Dec. 2017---Thanks for the video.....LOTS of ideas for a 1/35th scale zombie/apocalypse diorama settings.

[@paulwhitear4983]

Folkestone harbour station, has since been renovated since video was made.

[@PtolemyJones]

How did you manage to misspell the very first word in the title? Disuesd? And this has been up since 2017? Wow.

[@motelghost477]

Vandals don't always wear hoodies, some of the worst vandals wear tailored suits.

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

Good point.

[@sirjohng1]

Lovely music, well chosen. All that human effort and high hopes now no longer relevant.

[@johncourtneidge]

Yes

[@SuperNevile]

Chopin ~ Funeral March. The amount of infrastructure discarded in just a few years is mind boggling. Just walking one abandoned line reveals massive earthworks (embankments and cuttings) and soil transfer to allow shallow gradients for steam locos even through hilly country , stations, bridges (over and under the track), viaducts, crossing points to allow livestock to pass into fields on either side, tunnels through hills (some miles long). All done with cheap labour, picks and shovels in the early days, through inhospitable countryside in all weathers.

[@ghanshyambarse9095]

Iam from india and i love rail ways but i dont think this thought in my mind also in this word has clodesd railway stations also.😥😕

[@amosmaclin4665]

That's sad to see I love trains

[@donna374able]

Me too😭

[@stuarthall6631]

Wonderfully evocative, thank you! Much of your material is from the Kent and East Sussex Railway and at least much of this has been restored and re-opened, albeit further south from Tenterton.

[@Plysdyret1]

Nature has taken over!

[@richardjenkins8891]

Plysdyret1 QAQ

[@jacksugden8190]

Beeching, the butcher of the railways.

[@beeble2003]

Allhallows on Sea: closed 1961 Ash Town: closed 1948 Biddenden (not "Biddendham" as the video says): closed 1954 Brasted: closed 1961 Brookland Halt: closed 1967 Chevening Halt: closed 1961 Cliffe (not "Cliff"): closed 1961 Cranbrook: closed 1961 Dover Harbour: closed 1927 Dungeness: closed 1937 East Minster (not "Minister"): closed 1950 Eastchurch (not "East Church"): closed 1950 Elham: closed 1940 when the line was taken over by the military Folkestone (not "Folkstone") East: closed 1965 Folkestone Harbour: closed 2001 because the Channel Tunnel killed the ferry traffic the station relied on. Folkestone Warren Halt: closed 1939 Frittenden Road: closed 1954 Goudhurst: closed 1961 Grain Crossing Halt: closed 1951, replaced by Grain station, closed 1961 (not mentioned in the video) Gravesend West: closed 1953 Greatstone Dunes: closed 1983 (and not even a BR station) Greatstone-on-Sea Halt: closed 1967 Harty Road Halt: closed 1950 Hawkhurst: closed 1961 Headcorn: never closed; the branchline platforms closed in 1954 but the mainline platforms are still in use today High Halden Road: closed 1954 High Halstow Halt: closed 1961 Horsmonden (not "Horsemonden"): closed 1961 Hythe: closed 1951 Knowlton: closed 1948 So, of the thirty closures mentioned in the video, one (Headcord) never even happened and one wasn't a BR station (Greatstone Dunes was on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch miniature railway). Beeching was responsible for three of the remaining 28, and one of those (Folkestone East) was, at the time, within two miles of at least three other railway stations.

[@jacksugden8190]

beeble2003 👍👍👍👍

[@snubby4624]

@@beeble2003 Big brain knowledge. Thank you.

[@microbusss]

go out & SAVE the railway stations, tracks & buildings!

[@MrFsandt]

Sad reality.😕😔😢

[@johncourtneidge]

I particularly am fond of the New Romney branch and the Rye Harbour Branch. Are the material shown available in a book?

[@udayanpaul8042]

nice recollection mate! could you please tell me the name of the music track did you play in the background?

[@michaelrawson6261]

Udayan Paul:... I'm pretty sure it's the funeral March!

[@udayanpaul8042]

+Michael Rawson very well! many thanks; mate!

[@davidberlant5096]

F. Chopin - Sonata #2 in B-flat minor. 3rd movement - Marcia Funebre

[@beeble2003]

@@michaelrawson6261 Saying that "it's the funeral march" is like saying "it's the pop song."

[@karenmacdonald6807]

Good photo

[@staffanlindstrom576]

Saddening.

[@anghinetti]

Modes of transport come and go or simply decline. Happened to canals, stagecoaches and mail coaches once railways had taken hold.

[@jazzman1626]

Oh how I’d love to restore Goudhurst Station to live in. I’d even plant some ivy where it used to be. The waiting room could be a cafe.

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

Me too. But at least it didn't get knocked down.

[@marclayne9261]

the greatest crime in Britain after 1945......the destruction of the rail system.....

[@johnstedman5054]

Please get the opening titles right! And check the spelling of Folkestone - these niggles detract from a very interesting set of images...

[@heritagerailwaysofkentande2885]

John Stedman cheers John I love predictably text but must stop using it

[@johnstedman5054]

You obviously don't regard the work as highly as I do. It's really good quality and content, marred only by the spellchecker messing up the titles. As for your comment........

[@conkeroonee]

descovery chanel ???

[@Alex-xh7sg]

STANDARDS must PREVAIL

[@JourneywithSmee]

Headcorn station is still there. Between Staplehurst and Pluckley on the Ashford to London mainline. Unless this was the original one.

[@jeremyslaney5644]

I think that the Headcorn Station that was being referred to, is Headcorn Junction, where the line travelled from Headcorn Junction to Robertsbridge Junction

[@beeble2003]

@@jeremyslaney5644 Yes, but Headcorn Junction wasn't actually a separate station. It was just the branchline platform of Headcorn station. That platform closed in 1954 but the other two platforms are still open to this day.

[@jawadhaider5902]

Why were these Railway lines abandoned. Had the people migrated to other places?

[@nevittwoods1730]

Platform ticket Restless diesles 🎸☕

[@pingpongpung]

"Disuesd"??? "Disued"???

[@beeble2003]

About a third of the station names are misspelled, too...

[@kentcyclist]

The best way to relieve road congestion is to close all railways and make into roads

[@daverees8644]

kentcyclist then you get more congestion as the car population gets bigger!!

[@anghinetti]

kentcyclist: Ridiculous notion...

[@juliandavies7890]

The best way would be to put all the freight back on the trains where it used to be and to open all the branch lines. You can get masses of freight on one train and take hundreds of juggernauts off the roads. Then the freight could be collected from the local railheads like it used to be before BEECHING dessimated the railways. He had no idea about the railways and just slashed and burned just to save money without any thought of the breakdown of infrastructure. If they had kept the railways open and upgraded the trains and the rolling stock we would now have one of the best rail networks in the world.

[@marionhancock-kooijman475]

Bloody Dr Beeching!!!!

[@beeble2003]

Of the thirty stations listed in this video, one never even closed (the branch platforms at Headcorn were closed, but the mainline platforms remain open to this day) and one wasn't a BR station (Greatstone Dunes on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch miniature railway). Beeching was responsible for closing three of the remaining 28, and one of those was Folkestone East, which was within two miles of at least three other railway stations. So, really, Beeching had almost nothing to do with this video.

[@mrslowik]

It 2019 it look better at forkstone harbour today

[@ColinH1973]

Learn to spell.

[@karenmacdonald6807]

Good photo