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Port Victoria railway station

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Place
  
Port Victoria

Grid reference
  
TQ878738

11 September 1882
  
Opened

Platforms in use
  
1

Area
  
Medway

Post-grouping
  
Southern Railway

Original company
  
South Eastern Railway, UK

Port Victoria railway station

Pre-grouping
  
South Eastern and Chatham Railway

Similar
  
Grain Crossing Halt railw, Sharnal Street railway st, Beluncle Halt railway st, Cliffe railway station, East Minster railway st

Port Victoria railway station is a disused station in Kent, United Kingdom which opened on 11 September 1882 and closed in 1951. It was located at the head of a 400-foot (120 m) long timber pier reaching in the River Medway estuary.

The pier was discovered to be in need of repairs in 1896, and had also been damaged by a storm in November of that year. Between 1900–1903, the station was heavily used, as owing to a fire Queenborough pier was unavailable for use. During World War I the Admiralty took over Port Victoria. In 1916, the railway along the pier was shortened to 93 feet (28 m) and a new station building provided, the old one being demolished. By 1931 further deterioration of the pier made it unsafe and a new station was built on the landward side. The train service by this time being just two passenger services per day. In 1941 the pier was demolished and the station closed on 11 June 1951.

References

Port Victoria railway station Wikipedia