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