Frittenden Road railway station

Frittenden Road was a railway station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway which closed in 1954. The wooden station building lay derelict for years and was destroyed by fire in October 2003.

Frittenden Road
The station building's brick base in 2009
LocationHeadcorn, Ashford
England
Grid referenceTQ842408
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingKent and East Sussex Railway
Post-groupingSouthern Region of British Railways
Key dates
15 May 1905[1]Station opened
4 January 1954Station closed

As of 2012 most of the building's brick base still survives, and the general shape of the platform is still evident but much overgrown. The site is used by a joinery business whose premises straddle the trackbed immediately to the north of the old station.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Headcorn Junction   British Railways
Southern Region

KESR
  Biddenden

References

  1. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.


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