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in 1948. It closed to passenger traffic after the last train on 30 October that year. The track was removed in May 1954. Today there is no trace of the station or the railway as the site is now landscaped into a field.
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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Opened by the East Kent Light Railway on 16 October 1916, it attracted fleeting interest from the
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East Kent light railway page at the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum website
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Index


Ash
Dover (district)
Grid reference
TR286581
East Kent Light Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
East Kent Light Railway
Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
nationalisation
Woodnesborough
Staple
BR(S)
"Disused Stations: Ash Town Station"
Butt, R. V. J.
The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
Sparkford
ISBN
978-1-85260-508-7
OCLC
60251199
OL
11956311M
ISBN
978-0-906899-99-1
OCLC
228266687
ISBN
0-906520-61-4

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