Sandgate Railway Station
The Seabrook-Sandgate boundary looks totally different from the one pictured here nearly 100 years ago in 1921.
Now replaced by a host of new houses in Battery Point, it was once filled by the brick-built and two-platformed Sandgate Railway Station, built in 1874.
Yet its position around the area of Hospital Hill meant it never received a great deal of passengers, and the growing number of bus services meant it simply became too sparse before it closed in April, 1931 – just 57 years after it was opened.
In its prime however, it was the centre of the South Eastern Railway’s Hythe branch from Sandling junction, until it was eventually used as a bus garage and now new housing.
Pictures: Martin Easdown and Linda Sage
Featured: E Gammie
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