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Wittersham Road railway station
Wittersham Road is a railway station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway. It is located to the north-east of the level crossing on Maytham Road which links the Kentish villages of Rolvenden and Wittersham. Having served the area for over sixty years, the station closed with the line in 1961 and was later reopened in 1977 by the Kent and East Sussex Railway heritage organisation.
== History ==
Wittersham Road was one of the original stations on the line opened by the Rother Valley Railway between Rolvenden and Robertsbridge in 1900. The remote location of the station meant that there was no particular settlement for it to serve, the village of Wittersham being some away, a distance reflected in the decision to name the station "Wittersham Road".〔Course, E., p. 41.〕 The station consisted of a single platform and two sidings on the Down side facing Tenterden.
As with the station buildings at Bodiam and Northiam, a corrugated iron structure was provided at Wittersham Road, but this time lacking a platform awning. Unlike however all the Rother Valley stations, the station building at Wittersham Road was built at a right-angle to the platform. According to a 1948 timetable, the station was a compulsory stop for all trains from at least 1929 and possibly even earlier.
Between February 1941 and August 1944, a rail-mounted howitzer named ''SM Cleeve'', belonging to the No. 4 (Suffolk) Super-Heavy Railway Battery RA, was stationed at Wittersham Road. Weighing and capable of firing shells, it was only fired once, causing all the windows in the station to break. Three GWR Dean Goods Class locomotives were on hand to move the howitzer.
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