Place Rochester Grid reference TQ739690 Platforms in use 2 | Area Borough of Medway 3 Dec 1860 Opened as Strood | |
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Pre-grouping South Eastern and Chatham Railway 1 Apr 1861 Renamed Rochester Bridge Original company London, Chatham and Dover Railway Similar East Minster railway st, Longfield Halt railway st, Teston Crossing Halt railw, Smeeth railway station, Golden Sands Halt railway st | ||
Rochester Bridge railway station served Rochester and Strood in Kent, England.
It was opened as Strood by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway in 1860. After several name changes and the merger of the LC&DR into the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, it closed as Rochester Bridge in 1917. It lay derelict until it was demolished in the late 1960s in preparation for widening of the A2 road, which opened in 1970, its bridge of the River Medway using the piers of the southern span of the railway bridge.
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