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The Bexleyheath Line is last of the three rail routes created between the outskirts of London and Dartford station is a railway station at Dartford in North-West Kent, on the North Kent line. ...Dartford in This article is about the English county of Kent. ...Kent. It leaves the North Kent Line immediately on the Down side of Blackheath railway station is situated in the heart of Blackheath village in London. ...Blackheath railway station and travels due east for 8 miles (13km) to a junction with the same line south of Slade Green. There was a line to the south (the Dartford Loop Line) but, in spite of public pressure in the 1880s, the The London and Greenwich Railway (LGR), together with the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (CWR) in East Kent were the earliest railways to serve the then county of Kent: eventually both became parts of the South Eastern Railway (SER). ...South Eastern Railway (SER) refused to build a line to serve the area between the two lines.
It was therefore another company _ the Bexley Heath Railway (BHR), led by railway engineer Alfred Bean (owner of Danson House) - who put forward a scheme for this line, securing the necessary In Westminster System parliaments, an Act of Parliament is a part of the law passed by the Parliament. ...Act of Parliament in Events January January 16 _ The United States Civil service, is passed January 19 _ The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service (Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas Edison. ...1883. But it took a further twelve years for the scheme to be realised, and it was not until 1 May 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...1895 that the Bexleyheath Line was finally opened. The BHR soon went into bankruptcy, and the SER were forced to take over the line.
There were originally six stations on the line; one was added subsequently with the growth of the suburban area served by the line. The stations are/were:
- Blackheath railway station is situated in the heart of Blackheath village in London. ...Blackheath
- junction with the North Kent Line east of Blackheath
- Kidbrooke Tunnel [c400 yds (360m)]
- Kidbrooke
- Well Hall: subsequently renamed Eltham Well Hall [1.]
- Shooters Hill & Eltham Park: subsequently renamed Eltham Park [1.]
- Falconwood opened in 1936
- Welling
- Bexleyheath
- Barnehurst
- here there is a triangular junction with the North Kent Line linking trains with Slade Green carriage sidings and Dartford
- Dartford station is a railway station at Dartford in North-West Kent, on the North Kent line. ...Dartford
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