Withyham railway station

Withyham was a railway station on on the Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line which closed in 1967, a casualty of the Beeching Axe.^[1] The station building survived the closure and is now a private residence named the "Old Withyham Station"; much of the trackbed as far as Groombridge is part of the Worth Way and Forest Way footpaths, with the section as far as Tunbridge Wells West now reopened by the Spa Valley Railway.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Hartfield		British Rail Southern Region Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line		Groombridge
Hartfield		British Rail Southern Region Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line		Eridge

1 Reopening
2 Gallery
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Reopening

With regard to the possible reopening of the remaining section of the line from Tunbridge Wells to Three Bridges, number of obstacles would appear to stand in the way of such action, most notably:

1)An industrial site currently occupies the former location of Forest Row railway station as well as a small recycling centre to west.

2) The formation has been built across in several places notably in East Grinstead where about one mile of the trackbed from Station Road to the Lewes Road tunnel has been taken over for a relief road (the A22 ironically named "Beechings Way" after Richard Beeching whose recommendations closed the railway line). As there is no feasable alternative route into the station, this road would need to be reconverted back to rail. Any such action would in all likelihood result in a cut in capacity on an already highly congested road network.

3) The site of Grange Road has disappeared under a small parade of shops as well as housing which block 0.64 miles of the formation.