Leigh is a stop on the Redhill-Tonbridge Line in Kent between Penshurst and Tonbridge.
Southern 377 327 departs
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Redhill - Tonbridge Line)
Station code:
LIH
Opened:
1911
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1911 by the South Eastern Railway as Leigh Halt though was renamed Lyghe Halt in 1917 [1] (Leigh is pronounced the same as Lye). The station was changed back to Leigh Halt in 1960 and finally just Leigh in 1969. By then it had become an unstaffed station. The line through Leigh was electrified in 1993.
The station has only basic facilities. It is on an embankment with ramps down to road level. The station has a ticket machine and bus shelters. The station is managed by Southern who maintain one train per hour in each direction.
View down the platform
Preparing to depart
Station entrance
Railway bridge
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Redhill to Ashford (Middleton Press, 1990) Fig. 47
