Rochester Common railway station

Rochester Common
Rochester Common
General information
Location	South Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	South Eastern and Chatham Railway
Key dates
20 Jul 1891	Opened as; Rochester
1 Jul 1899	Renamed; Rochester Common
Dec 1901	Renamed; Rochester Central
1 Oct 1911	Closed

Rochester Common was a station on the Chatham Extension from Strood serving the town of

Rochester

.

The station was opened by the

South Eastern Railway which merged with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899. After the merger the SE & CR deemed that the Chatham Extension was an unnecessary duplication of the line and stations that it inherited from the LC & DR, and therefore the Extension and its stations, including Rochester Central (as it was then named), was closed in 1911. The station was demolished soon after closure and the site of the station later became sidings for Rochester Freight Depot until c. 1990.^[when?

]. Since closure the whole area has been redeveloped erasing any trace of the railway.

The track layout was

South Eastern Railway's bridge over the River Medway was used, and that layout is still there in the present day Chatham Main Line

route.

The London, Chatham and Dover Railway's bridge lay unused and then derelict until it was rebuilt in the 1960s to be the eastbound carriageway for a widened A2 road bridge which opened in 1970.

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