Junction Road Halt railway station

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Coordinates: 50°59′28″N 0°31′23″E / 50.991011°N 0.523085°E / 50.991011; 0.523085
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Not to be confused with Junction Road railway station in London.

Junction Road Halt
Site of halt in August 2011 showing progress made by the Rother Valley Railway.
General information
LocationUdiam nr Bodiam, Rother
England
Grid referenceTQ771243
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyRother Valley Railway
Pre-groupingKent and East Sussex Railway
Post-groupingSouthern Region of British Railways
Key dates
2 April 1900Opened as Junction Road
May 1901Closed
June 1903Reopened
January 1954Closed to regular services
12 June 1961Closed to all traffic

Junction Road Halt, also known as Junction Road (for Hawkhurst), was a halt station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway. It was located on the eastern side of the level crossing across the B2244 Junction Road near the hamlet of Udiam in East Sussex, England. Closed for passengers in 1954 and freight in 1961 with the line, The line through Junction Road Halt may yet be revived as the Rother Valley Railway, a preservation society, is proposing to reopen the line from Robertsbridge to Bodiam.

History

The

guards would be instructed to aid passengers with a hand lamp, the Board of Trade still insisted on lights.[5]

Although it is unclear whether formal authorisation was actually granted, the station began to appear in the railway company's timetables in June 1903.

ground frame situated nearby.[7] The position of the siding meant that trains wishing to shunt here had to be tow-roped.[10][12]

Junction Road, which was convenient for the

Southern Railway.[13] The platform was sufficiently long to accommodate a two-carriage train.[13] The proximity of hop-farms was most likely the main reason for the station's survival.[16]

Regular passenger services ceased in January 1954[1][17] but it continued to be used for special services, particularly hop-pickers' specials as late as September 1957.[18] The last publicly advertised service to pass through the station was a seven-carriage Locomotive Club of Great Britain special, worked by LB&SCR A1 class Nos. 32662 and 32670, which ran on 11 June 1961.[17][19] After closure a preservation group was formed to reopen the line.[20] After many years of negotiations the Ministry of Transport however refused permission for the section of line west of Bodiam, on the basis of difficulties that the reopened level crossings at Junction Road and on the A21 road would pose to road traffic, as well as the possibility that the roads might need to be converted into dual carriageways, in which case the taxpayer would have to bear the expense of bridging the line.[21][22] The track was removed between Bodiam and Robertsbridge in the early 1970s however the section between Bodiam and Tenterden has been reopened. The platform was still in situ in 1987 but was removed a few years later.[23] No trace of the station remained by 1996.[24]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Bodiam   British Railways
Southern Region
KESR 		  Salehurst Halt

Present day

The

0-6-0ST No. 14, LB&SCR A1 class No.3, GWR 0-6-0PT No. 1638 and Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 23,[28] although passengers were not able to alight or board here.[25] There are no plans to reinstate Junction Road Halt and Rother Valley Railway continues its efforts to reinstate the line westwards towards Robertsbridge.[25]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Butt 1995, p. 126.
  2. ^ a b c d Garrett 1999, p. 15.
  3. ^ Course 1976, p. 41.
  4. ^ Hart 2009, p. 51.
  5. ^ a b Hart 2009, p. 57.
  6. ^ Hart 2009, p. 56.
  7. ^ a b c Hart 2009, p. 219.
  8. ^ Oppitz 2003, p. 133.
  9. ^ Butt 1995, p. 116.
  10. ^ a b c Garrett 1999, p. 17.
  11. ^ Mitchell & Smith 1997, fig. 20.
  12. ^ Mitchell & Smith 1997, fig. 21.
  13. ^ a b c Scott-Morgan 2007, p. 21.
  14. ^ Mitchell & Smith 1997, fig. 23.
  15. ^ Garrett 1999, pp. 15–17.
  16. ^ Gough 2004, pp. 78–79.
  17. ^ a b Clinker 1978, p. 68.
  18. ^ Croughton, Kidner & Young 1982, p. 90.
  19. ^ Pallant 1993, p. 4.
  20. ^ Pallant 1993, p. 5.
  21. ^ Mitchell & Smith 1997, fig. 24.
  22. ^ Pallant 1993, p. 112.
  23. ^ White 1987, p. 172.
  24. ^ Gough 2004, p. 79.
  25. ^ a b c d e Courtney 2010, p. 12.
  26. ^ "Groups & Associates: Rother Valley Railway". Tenterden Terrier (109): 13. Summer 2009.
  27. ^ Rother Valley Railway (26 June 2010). "RVR - Udiam Track laying (GC)". Picasa. Retrieved 5 July 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  28. ^ a b Piggott 2011, p. 7.

Sources

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