Guess the Place

[johnfilmer]

I’ve just driven home via the bridge over the line at Lenham, and thought that it could be the answer.


Street view from that very spot, but too late!


Is the graveyard scene visible on google? I did one of Chilham and because a major footpath ran through it you get GSV in the churchyard itself.

[grandarog]

Wow ,Thanks I didn't expect that. I new there was a loop line at Lenham nothing else to connect to your pic.
Next one .Here's a view but where.

[John Walker]

I am plumping for Lenham Station. Probably wrong but it is a guess.

And a damn good guess it is.  
The goods shed was used by Morrell Cherries Ltd and a meat company.
Over to you Grandarog...

[grandarog]

I am plumping for Lenham Station. Probably wrong but it is a guess.

[John Walker]

Not the line from Victoria that passes through the Medway towns, Try a different London Station. Shoot999

[shoot999]

Victoria to Dover line?

[John Walker]

Close to two rail lines, a motorway and an 'A' road.

[John Walker]

One of the down sidings served a goods shed that was used by two food companies.

[John Walker]

A village station. The village is along a busy 'A' Road.

[John Walker]

On the Chatham  to Ramsgate part of the mainline?

Not that line...

[shoot999]

On the Chatham  to Ramsgate part of the mainline?

[John Walker]

Still in regular use (mainline?)?

Still in use and a mainline. Used to be sidings both sides. The one in the photo was a siding but was changed to a loop.

[CAT]

Still in regular use (mainline?)?

[John Walker]

Thanks JohnFilmer - I never knew about these brickworks before this GTP.  Looks like it is destined for housing now.


Next - which station?

[grandarog]

I should have known the stables at Grove End Farm were floored with their Blue hatched bricks.
Bit of info for interest .
"
A brickworks next to Pluckley Railway Station was opened in 1879 by the Kent Brick & Tile Company who are listed in Kelly’s 1882 edition with John Porter as manager. The works first produced their bricks in Scotch & Staffordshire kilns, but by the early 1880’s a 14 chamber Hoffman kiln had been built which was capable of holding 350,000 bricks. By 1891 this works was owned by the Pluckley Brick & Tile Co.
The Pluckley Brick & Tile Co. are listed in Kelly’s 1891 & 1903 editions at Pluckley, Ashford with W. J. Moody as secretary & manager. A web article reveals that Pluckley Brick & Tile Co’s. 25 foot deep clay pit contained several types of clay suitable for producing both red & blue bricks. Fireclay was also available to produce low quality fire bricks suitable for lining brick kilns & lime kilns. Pluckley B & T Co. mainly produced red bricks & blue vitrified stable & paver bricks of various patterns. Their blue & brindle bricks were of such unsurpassed quality that they rivalled those made in Staffordshire. Kelly’s 1913 edition records new owners at the works & the entry is Pluckley Clay Works, proprietors, East Kent Contract & Financial Co. Ltd. Pluckley, Ashford. At a later date & up to when this works closed, possibly in the 1970’s/80’s it was owned by Redland.  Photos and info by Martyn Fretwell."
Source https://www.brocross.com/Bricks