Warren Halt railway station

:"This article is about the former RH&DR station at New Romney in Kent.":"For the former SER station of the same name at Folkestone in Kent, see Folkestone Warren Halt railway station."

Infobox UK disused station
name = Warren Bridge Halt
manager = RHDR
owner =


locale = New Romney
borough = Shepway
gridref =
platforms = 2
years = 16 July 1927
events = Opened
years1 = 1928
events1 = Closed to passengers
years2 = 1946
events2 = Briefly re-opened [Butt, R.V.J. (1995). "The Directory of Railway Stations", Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 241.]

Warren Halt railway station was a station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England. It was also known as Warren Bridge Halt.

Opened on 16 July 1927, this was one of three stations deliberately included in the timetable despite being sited far from a population centre, in the hope that their location near a bridge (Prince of Wales and Warren) or level crossing (Botolphs Bridge Road) would encourage traffic connecting from buses or other road transport. The experiment failed, in all three cases.

Warren Halt closed later in the same year that it had opened (1927) and no longer appeared on timetables, except the immediately post-war timetable of 1946, when the halt was briefly re-opened. The railway company had regained control from the War Office (the line had been a military railway from 1939 to 1945) and concentrated efforts on recovering custom on the main Hythe to New Romney section, of which Warren Halt was a part. However, the experiment with this little station was again deemed a failure.

The station never had any buildings, and today there is nothing to mark the site as trains pass by at speed. The extensive rabbit warren from which both the station and this local area of New Romney take their name, is still very much evident, and large numbers of rabbits may be viewed from the train when passing the location.

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