page_title: Tonbridge railway station
section_title: Tonbridge yard and sidings
hierarchical_section_title: Tonbridge railway station / Tonbridge yard and sidings
caption_attribution_description: 73207 in Tonbridge West Yard
context_page_description: Tonbridge railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the town of Tonbridge, Kent. It is 29 miles 46 chains from London Charing Cross via Sevenoaks. Trains calling at the station are operated by Southeastern and Southern.
  Tonbridge is at a junction between two important commuter routes: the South Eastern Main Line and the Hastings Line to Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, the South Eastern main line from London to Dover and the Redhill–Tonbridge line. There are four platforms. Platform 4 is a terminating platform.
context_section_description: There are extensive yards and storage sidings (tracks) on both the east and west sides of the station.
  
  To the east of the station are Tonbridge East Sidings, four sidings and a two-track shed used by Network Rail for maintenance equipment storage and materials delivery. These occupy part of the site of the former engine shed. 
  Further down the line towards Paddock Wood, there is the now disused Tonbridge Postal Siding. This was opened in 1995 with a new down "slow" line to handle mail and parcels traffic for the nearby Royal Mail sorting office. Its use was short-lived owing to the loss of most mail traffic to road haulage.
  To the west, between the Redhill line and the West Yard, the four electrified 'Jubilee' sidings are used to stable trains. The adjacent West Yard, operated by GB Railfreight, has sixteen non-electrified tracks and is now mainly used for stabling engineers' trains. The West Yard was built in 1941 as part of the improvements needed for freight train traffic during World War Two, and is spanned by a long footbridge carrying a public footpath between Douglas Road and Clare Avenue.
  Tonbridge Power (signal) Box stands at the eastern entrance to the Jubilee sidings and West Yard. Built in 1962, it is still in limited operational use.
  Adjacent to the main London line there are two short electrified sidings (Tonbridge Down Main sidings).
caption: BR Class 73 in Tonbridge West Yard
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