Date: 11/03/2022

The £63M rail upgrade and restoration scheme is part of a wider £170M investment in the Hoo Peninsula from the government's Housing Infrastructure Fund to ...

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The £63M rail upgrade and restoration scheme is part of a wider £170M investment in the Hoo Peninsula from the governments Housing Infrastructure Fund to

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View west to the site of Grain station from BP 'B' Gate Level Crossing, Isle of Grain.
Location: Grain
Company: Hundred of Hoo Railway (South Eastern Railway)
29/08/2019 Rod Crawford

UK Railtours' excursion behind 66151 just arrived at Grain, terminus of the freight only branch from Gravesend, looking back towards the latter on 17th November 2018. This closed to passengers in December 1961; until 1951 the line had continued to Port Victoria. After this truncation, the intermediate Grain Crossing Halt was replaced by a new island platform station called simply Grain but this lasted only 10 years and was demolished. The grass between the tracks marks the site of its short-lived island platform.
Location: Grain
Company: Hundred of Hoo Railway (South Eastern Railway)
17/11/2018 David Bosher

UK Railtours' excursion to the Grain freight branch passing Grain Crossing Halt as it runs into the terminus at Grain, on 29th December 2016. The line beyond to Port Victoria closed in 1951 and, at the same time, Grain Crossing Halt was replaced by a new station just to the east called simply Grain. However, this only lasted ten years until all services on the line, and the branch to Allhallows-on-Sea that had only opened in 1932, were withdrawn in December 1961. In 1974, a campaign to restore passenger services on the line was started but met with little enthusiasm and was quickly forgotten. However, in the April 2021 edition of Todays Railways, a report states that Medway Council has opened a public consultation into a proposal to again restore passenger services but only on part of the line. This envisages a new station called Hoo, near the site of the former Sharnal Street station, as a new terminus. There are no plans to reopen through to Grain nor to reopen the Allhallows branch.
Location: Grain Crossing Halt
Company: Hundred of Hoo Railway (South Eastern Railway)
29/12/2016 David Bosher

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