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Frittenden Road was a railway station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway which closed in 1954. The wooden station building lay derelict for years and was destroyed by fire in October 2003.

Frittenden Road
The station building's brick base in 2009
General information
Location	Headcorn, Ashford England
Grid reference	TQ842408
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Kent and East Sussex Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Region of British Railways
Key dates
15 May 1905[1]	Station opened
4 January 1954	Station closed

As of 2012 most of the building's brick base still survives, and the general shape of the platform is still evident but much overgrown. The site is used by a joinery business whose premises straddle the trackbed immediately to the north of the old station.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Headcorn Junction		British Railways Southern Region KESR		Biddenden

References

External links

• Frittenden Road station at Disused-Stations.org.uk
• Frittenden Road station on navigable 1940 O. S. map

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