Groombridge railway station
Groombridge | |||||
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Groombridge station buidling, 2008 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Groombridge, Wealden, East Sussex England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°06′43″N 0°11′16″E / 51.11194°N 0.18778°E | ||||
| Grid reference | TQ533372 | ||||
| System | Station on heritage railway | ||||
| Owned by | Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways Spa Valley Railway | ||||
| Managed by | London, Brighton and South Coast Railway | ||||
| Platforms | new station 1 (original station 3) | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1 October 1866 | Opened | ||||
| 4 November 1968 | Goods facilities withdrawn | ||||
| 8 July 1985 | Closed to passengers | ||||
| August 1997 | Reopened by Spa Valley Railway | ||||
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Groombridge railway station is a station on the Spa Valley Railway (SVR) in Groombridge, East Sussex, England. 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.