Wingham Colliery railway station
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England
Wingham Colliery | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Wingham, Dover (district) England | ||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||
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| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | East Kent Light Railway | ||||
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| 16 October 1916 | Opened | ||||
| 1 November 1948 | Closed | ||||
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Wingham Colliery railway station was a railway station on the East Kent Light Railway in southeast England. It was intended to serve Wingham Colliery, a short distance to the south, but the mine was aborted without producing any coal. The railway then tried to develop a passenger business, extending the line towards Wingham Town with the long-term aim of reaching Canterbury, but ran out of money before they did so.
Today there is little trace of the station or the railway, other than a line of trees that follow the course of the old trackbed and define the edge of a field. The station buildings consisted of two small wooden structures on the north side of the track that were moved to Wingham Town when it was built; the site has now been landscaped into the field.