A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
KENT (MID) RAILWAY, a railway of two portions, in Kent. The first portion was authorized in 1855, to be constructed from the North Kent branch of the Southeastern at Lewisham, southward to the Farnborough extension of the West London and Crystal Palace, near Sydenham, a distance of 4½ miles, and was opened in Jan. 1857; and an extension of it, 3½ miles long, to Addiscombe, was authorized in 1862; and the whole was to be transferred, by purchase, to the Southeastern. The second portion was authorized in 1856, to be constructed from the preceding, near Bromley, eastward to St. Mary Cray; was opened from Bromley to Southborough Road, a distance of 2½ miles, in July 1858; was subsequently extended into junction with the Sevenoaks railway from Sutton-at-Hone; and was leased, in 1863, to the London, Chatham, and Dover company.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a railway of two portions" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Kent AncC |
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