Disused railway lines and closed stations in Kent

148 miles of disused railway
105 closed stations
106 stations open today
31 named lost lines

Kent has 148 miles of disused railway and 105 closed stations, against 106 stations still open today. That is 1.0 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the East Kent Light Railway, with 16 miles of its route inside Kent.

See Kent’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 148 miles of lost railway in Kent break down as 83 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 45 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 20 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Kent

31 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Kent; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
East Kent Light Railway	16
Elham Valley Line	16
Paddock Wood and Hawkhurst Line	11
Lydd Military Railway	10
Sheppey Light Railway	8.6
Kent and East Sussex Light Railway	7.8
Romney Junction to New Romney Line	6.6
Canterbury and Whitstable Line	5.8
Westerham Valley Branch Line	4.2
Ramsgate to Margate Sands Line	3.4
Ashford D Junction to Hastings	3.2
Hythe and Sandgate Branch	2.9
Fawkham Junction to Gravesend West Line	2.3
Guilford Colliery	2.3
Folkestone Harbour Branch	1.8
Allhallows Branch	1.7
Grain to Port Victoria Line	1.7
Chattenden and Upnor Railway	1.6
Appledore Junction to Dungeness	1.5
Bowaters Paper Railway	1.5
Tar Works Branch	1.4
Queensborough Pier Sidings	1.1
Ramsgate Harbour Branch (Ramsgate Tunnels)	0.9
Grove Junction to Birchden Junction Line	0.7
Chatham Dockyard Railway	0.6
Hammill Colliery	0.5
Ramsgate Underground Railway	0.5
South Eastern Main Line	0.5
Faversham to Dover Marine	0.4
Queenborough Pier Branch	0.4
Charing Cross and Dover Western Docks Line	0.3

Closed railway stations in Kent

All 105 closed and former stations in Kent, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Kent

106 stations in Kent still have a train service. The busiest are Dartford (4.8 million a year), Tonbridge (4.0 million a year), Ashford International (3.8 million a year), Sevenoaks (3.7 million a year) and Tunbridge Wells (3.0 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Surrey and West Sussex.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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