Original sentence: Rochester Common was a station on the Chatham Extension serving the town of Rochester.The station was owned by the South Eastern Railway and closed in 1911
Edited sentence: After the merger the SE & CR deemed that the Chatham Extension was an unnecessary duplication of the line and stations that it inherited from the LC & DR, and therefore the Extension and its stations, including Rochester Central (as it was then named), was closed in 1911.Rochester Common was a station on the Chatham Extension from Strood serving the town of Rochester.The station was opened by the South Eastern Railway which merged with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899