| 词条 | Mid-Kent Railway |
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The Mid Kent & North Kent Junction Railway (usually referred to as the Mid Kent Railway ) was an early railway in Kent England. (Note the name is given both with and without the hyphen in different sources.) OriginsThe Mid Kent Railway was formed on 23 July 1855 to construct a 4.75-mile line between the South Eastern Railway (SER) at Lewisham and the Farnborough Extension of the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway (WEL&CPR) at Beckenham.[1] The intention then was to extend this line to Croydon at a later date.[2] The line opened 1 January 1857 and was operated by the SER under a ten-year agreement. Mid Kent (Bromley & St Mary Cray) RailwayThis project was drawn up in 1856 to construct a four-mile line between Shortlands and St Mary Cray. This line was of strategic importance in providing a link between the East Kent Railway and the WEL&CPR, thereby providing a potential alternative route between London and Dover to the roundabout route used by the South Eastern Railway and so enabling the creation of the London Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR) in 1859. This line was leased to the LC&DR in 1862.[3] Addiscombe LineAlthough the company later abandoned its intention of building a line to Croydon, an extension to Addiscombe Road through Elmers End was completed in 1862 which was also leased to the SER on completion. DissolutionThe remaining interests of the company were taken over by the SER in August 1866.[4] LegacyThe Lewisham – Elmers End and the Shortlands – St Mary Cray sections now form parts of the Hayes line and the Chatham main line, respectively. References1. ^{{cite web | title = Kent Rail: Addiscombe | url = http://www.kentrail.org.uk/addiscombe.htm | accessdate = 7/02/2013}} 2. ^{{cite news | title = Railway Intelligence. Mid-Kent. | newspaper = The Times | location =London | pages =7| date = 1 Mar 1858}} 3. ^{{cite news | title = Railway Intelligence. South-Eastern. | newspaper = The Times | location =London | pages =11| date = 6 Jun 1862}} 4. ^{{cite news | title = Business and Finance: Mid-Kent. | newspaper = The Times | location =London | pages =5| date = 14 Aug 1866}} 6 : Early British railway companies|Railway companies established in 1855|Railway lines opened in 1857|Railway companies disestablished in 1866|1855 establishments in England|British companies established in 1855 |
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