TQ5337 : Station House, Groombridge Station
taken 4 years ago, near to Groombridge, East Sussex, England
Groombridge station is on the Spa Valley Railway (SVR) in Groombridge. Once a busy station serving four directions, it closed in 1985 to British Rail services. A new station the other side of Station Road bridge was opened by the SVR in 1997 as part of a standard gauge heritage railway to Tunbridge Wells West.
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The Spa Valley Railway is a heritage railway opened in 1996. Running for 4 miles from Tunbridge Wells to Eridge, with Groombridge and High Rocks stations mid point. The line originally connected to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway lines until it finally closed in May 1985 but in March 2011 the line was reconnected to Eridge and the main line to London.
Some of the original station buildings have now been converted to other uses, Tunbridge Wells a restaurant and Groombridge to offices.
Groombridge is a village, which straddles the border between Kent and East Sussex.
The main part of the village ("New Groombridge") lies in East Sussex. Across the county boundary lies the much smaller and older part of the village ("Old Groombridge").
New Groombridge has a primary school, a general store, a bakery, a post office, a hairdresser, a car dealership and the Junction Inn public house. Old Groombridge has the church of St John. It also has the Crown Inn public house, but no shops.
Groombridge Place a moated house also lies within the village.
The Spa Valley Railway has a station in the village.