Headcorn is a stop on the South Eastern Main Line in Kent between Staplehurst and Pluckley.
Southeastern 375 613 arrives at Headcorn
Information
Type:
National Rail
(South Eastern Main Line)
Station code:
HCN
Opened:
1842
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1842 by the South Eastern Railway. In 1905 the Kent & East Sussex Railway made Headcorn it's northern terminus. An extra platform was added for KESR services who called the station Headcorn Junction [1]. The station was partially rebuilt in the late 1920s when two new fast running linmes were added through the station. A new platform was built and footbridge. The KESR between Headcorn and Tenterden closed in 1954. The goods yard was closed in 1962.
The station was rebuilt in 1988, the original SER building was replaced by a new structure. The station is managed by Southeastern with usually two trains per hour in each direction.
View down the platform
Station building
View from the footbridge
Preparing to go
Down the platform
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Redhill to Ashford (Middleton Press, 1990) Fig. 96
