Botolph's Bridge Halt railway station

Botolph's Bridge Halt
A works train passing the site of the halt
Location
Place	Romney Marsh
Area	Shepway
Operations
Pre-grouping	RHDR
Platforms	2
History
1927	Opened
1939	Station closed to passengers
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Botolphs Bridge Halt railway station was a little-used station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England.

Botolphs Bridge or Botolph's Bridge is a hamlet on the Romney Marsh, consisting of a small group of family homes and a public house. Although the railway passes some distance from the settlement, the long road from the hamlet to the coast is called "Botolphs Bridge Road", and intersects the railway at a level crossing. Here a small halt was provided when the line opened in 1927, with a single wooden waiting shelter for the convenience of passengers.

The halt was closed in 1939 due to very low traffic figures. The manner of its closure was somewhat spectacular, and well reported locally at the time. Captain Howey, the railway's founder and principal shareholder, declared the station closed, instructed train drivers not to stop there, and then set fire to the wooden shelter. With no public warning of the impending closure, the flames and smoke prompted an emergency call to the Fire Brigade, who turned out an appliance and crew. The firemen were very surprised to arrive on scene and discover the burning building's owner with a box of matches.^[1]

Gallery

No. 5 Hercules heading for Hythe
No. 9 Winston Churchill crossing the level crossing

References

↑ This story is reported in full in at least 15 published sources, for example, see page 19 of "Historical Guide to the RH&DLR" by C S Wolfe, published 1976 by RHDRAssoc.

	Heritage railways
Prince of Wales Halt		RHDR		Burmarsh Road

Coordinates: 51°03′22″N 1°01′50″E / 51.05610°N 1.03049°E / 51.05610; 1.03049

Stations of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

Open stations	Hythe Burmarsh Road Dymchurch St Mary's Bay Warren Halt New Romney Romney Sands Dungeness

Closed stations	Prince of Wales Halt Botolph's Bridge Halt Golden Sands Halt Greatstone Dunes War Department Halt Lade The Pilot Inn Britannia Points Halt

Proposed stations	Sandling Junction Sandling Park Hythe (Red Lion Square) Nickolls Quarry

Closed railway stations in Kent

Canterbury and Whitstable Railway	Whitstable Harbour Tankerton South Street Blean and Tyler Hill Canterbury North Lane

Elham Valley Railway	Canterbury South Bridge Bishopsbourne Barham Elham Lyminge Cheriton Halt

Hawkhurst Branch Line	Horsmonden Goudhurst Cranbrook Hawkhurst

Hundred of Hoo Railway	Milton Road Halt Denton halt Milton Range Halt Uralite Halt Cliffe High Halstow Halt Sharnal Street Beluncle Halt Middle Stoke Halt Stoke Junction Halt Allhallows-on-Sea Grain Crossing Halt Grain Port Victoria

Kent and East Sussex Railway	Frittenden Road Biddenden High Halden Road Tenterden St. Michael's

Sheppey Light Railway	Sheerness East East Minster Minster on Sea Brambledown Halt Eastchurch Harty Road Halt Leysdown

East Kent Light Railway	Richboro Port Sandwich Road Roman Road Poison Cross Woodnesborough Eastry Eastry South Knowlton Tilmanstone Colliery Halt Ash Town Staple Wingham Colliery Wingham Town Canterbury Road

Westerham Valley Branch Line	Westerham Brasted Chevening Halt

Gravesend West Line	Gravesend West Rosherville Halt Southfleet Longfield Halt

Sandgate Branch	Hythe Sandgate

South Eastern Main Line	Smeeth Folkestone East Folkestone Warren Halt Shakespeare Cliff Halt

Dover area	Dover Harbour Dover Town Admiralty Pier Dover Marine

Marshlink Line Dungeness branches	Brookland Halt Lydd Town Lydd-on-Sea Halt Greatstone-on-Sea Halt New Romney and Littlestone-on-Sea Dungeness (SER)

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway	Prince of Wales Halt Botolph's Bridge Halt Golden Sands Halt Greatstone Dunes War Department Halt Lade The Pilot (Inn) Britannia Points Halt

SER & LCDR merger remodelling	Ashford (LCDR) Ramsgate Harbour (LCDR Ramsgate) Ramsgate Town (SER Ramsgate) Margate Sands (SER Margate) Rochester Bridge (LCDR Strood) Rochester Common (SER Rochester) Chatham Central (SER Chatham) Strood (1st)

Other lines	Ashford to Margate via Canterbury West Chislet Colliery Halt Grove Ferry and Upstreet Ebbsfleet and Cliffsend Halt St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay Chatham Main Line Stonehall and Lydden Halt Margate East Maidstone East Line Ashford West Hothfield Medway Valley Line Teston Crossing Halt Tovil Sheerness Line Kings Ferry Bridge North Halt Queenborough Pier Sheerness Dockyard

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