Station Name: DIXTER HALT

[Source: Nick Catford]


Date opened: 25.5.1981
Location: Unmade road to Great Dixter House
Company on opening: Kent & East Sussex Railway
Date closed to passengers: 27.8.1983
Date closed completely: 27.8.1983
Company on closing: Kent & East Sussex Railway
Present state: Demolished
County: Sussex
OS Grid Ref: TQ815259
Date of visit: Not visited

Notes: Dixter Halt was a short-lived station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway on an unmade road leading to Great Dixter house near Northiam in East Sussex. Dixter Halt was opened before the reopening of the section of the Kent and East Sussex Railway (KESR) between Northiam and Bodiam in 2000. It was located at the point where the grounds of Great Dixter house adjoin the line. The station was ceremonially opened on 25 May 1981, the first train to call being hauled by a Peckett 0-4-0T Marcia and composed of a former District Railway coach and an ex-LNWR brake van. A shuttle service between Bodiam and Dixter Halt operated on Bank Holidays and other special occasions until the August Bank Holiday in 1983, the Thameside Area Group of the KESR using the halt for their Steam at Bodiam Events.

The halt was demolished during construction work of reopening the line between Northiam and Bodiam. The unmade road and occupation level crossing adjacent to the site are still in use by the local farmer


AC Cars railbus No.44 (W79978) at Dixter Halt on the opening day, 25 May 1981.
Photo by Tom Burnham from his Flickr photostream


AC Cars railbus No. 44 at Dixter Halt on the opening day, 25 May 1981. The railbus, which was built in 1958 has now left the K&ESR and can be found on the Colne Valley Railway in Essex.
Photo by Tom Burnham from his Flickr photostream

AC Cars railbus (W79978) at Dixter Halt on the opening day, 25 May 1981.
Photo by Tom Burnham from his Flickr photostream


AC Cars railbus at Dixter Halt in May 1988.
Photo by Brian Halford

Dixter Halt on the opening day, 25 May 1981.
Photo by Rob Sissons

Dixter Halt on the opening day, 25 May 1981.
Photo by Rob Sissons

Dixter Halt on the opening day, 25 May 1981.
Photo by Rob Sissons

The last train to use Dixter Halt ran on August bank holiday Monday 1983. At this time Dixter Halt closed and the site returned to nature until the section of line between Northiam and Bodiam officially opened in 2000.
Photo from John Mann collection



 

 

 

[Source: Nick Catford]




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