Strood (1st) railway station

Strood
Location
Place	Strood
Area	Borough of Medway
Operations
Original company	Gravesend and Rochester Railway[1] South Eastern Railway
History
8 February 1845	Opened as Rochester[1]
13 December 1846	Closed
23 August 1847	Reopened
July 1849	Renamed Strood, Rochester and Chatham
June 1852	Renamed Strood
18 Jun 1856	Closed
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Strood (1st) (locally known as and marked on old maps as The Old Terminus) was a terminus of the South Eastern Railway located in Strood and serving also the towns of Chatham and Rochester. It closed for passengers in 1856 when the present Strood station was opened. The site was then used as a sidings yard until around 1990. It is now occupied by housing development and industrial units.

Former Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Higham		South Eastern Railway		Terminus

Maps

1863 Map of Strood and Frindsbury showing Strood's first station (Old Terminus) and second station (Strood Station).

1909 Map of Strood and Frindsbury showing that the site of the Old Terminus had become a sidings yard.

Medway Towns
Legend North Kent Line (& High Speed) to London Bridge & St Pancras Chatham Main Line to Victoria & Blackfriars Medway Valley Line to Maidstone Halling Cuxton Strood Rochester Bridge | Strood (1st) Rochester Bridge Goods station Rochester Common Rochester(2015–) Rochester(1892–2015) Chatham Central River Medway Chatham Gillingham Rainham Chatham Main Line to Faversham, Dover and Ramsgate

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. pp. 198,223. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

Coordinates: 51°23′47″N 0°30′08″E / 51.3965°N 0.5021°E