Hello and welcome to a very short stay at Pluckley station on the Southeastern Mainline where we see services purely from Southeastern. I only spent an hour here seeing as there was no freight coming through to break things up, it's a nice enough little station but there is nothing to do.
The station was opened in 1842 by the South Eastern Railway when this section of the line was extended to Headcorn and Ashford, the first train passed through the station on December 1st of that year. The station was initially built to serve the Pluckley Brick and Tile Works that were located towards the west of the station, but it was then eventually used as a freight depot for Southwark Manure Company. This was to get manure out from London to serve the farms around Kent.
The station was closed to goods in 1965 and the signal box that served the station was closed in 1967. The station building hasn't changed since it was first built.
My next station will be Headcorn just a few miles up the line.
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