Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station (Network Rail)
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Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. 17.06.2015 12766
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking south. 17.06.2015 12771
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking south. 17.06.2015 12770
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking south. 17.06.2015 12769
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking north at the main building on Platform 2. 17.06.2015 12776
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking south. 17.06.2015 12773
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking north. 17.06.2015 12775
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking across to the waiting facilities on Platform 1 (northbound). 17.06.2015 12777
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, showing the new South Eastern signage which makes the station name one word. On old railway maps it is Shepherds Well, which was the name shown on earlier station boards, and which is still on the signal box. Signs for the East Kent Railway also appear. 17.06.2015 12772
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, showing the new South Eastern signage which makes the station name one word. On old railway maps it is Shepherds Well, which was the name shown on earlier station boards, and which is still on the signal box. Signs for the East Kent Railway also appear. 17.06.2015 12767
10 years earlier, Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking south on 06.06.2005. Note the running in sign on Platform 2 which says Welcome to Shepherds Well. At the end of Platform 2 is an old semaphore signal with a white sighting panel behind it, and note the most unusual sight of a telephone kiosk sited on Platform 1. Rural telephone kiosks would normally be outside railway property.
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. looking north from the footbridge on 06.06.2005. Note the refuge siding extending south behind the signal box and along behind Platform 1. On the east side a siding extends almost to the end of Platform 2. The new brickwork there suggests that there was originally a loading dock at the end of the platform, which was subsequently filled in. An old shunting signal between the lines gives access to the east sidings. In the distance an old semaphore signal can be seen controlling entry to the station.
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. looking south on 06.06.2005. The lamp standards are in the old red livery.
The plate on the signal reads SH12, indicating that in 2005 the signal was still controlled by the signal box at Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell). There is a closer view of the refuge siding on the left (since removed) and of the old style shunting signal on the right. Note the short siding on the right leading towards the camera which probably originally served a loading dock. 06.06.2005
More or less the same view in 2015, with the signal box closed and new LED signals carrying EK plates (East Kent). The refuge siding on the left has gone, as has the short siding on the right. New buffers show the amended end of the siding. Entry to the sidings is controlled by a shunt signal attached to EK4454, and both platforms have signals allowing departures to the north. Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. 17.06.2015 12768
The former signal box at Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, equipped with every possible convenience. The chalked signs indicate that the box has been acquired by the East Kent Railway. There is now just the small matter of moving it.... 17.06.2015 11365
The former signal box at Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. The lamp in shot formerly lit the path provided for the signalman. The sign on the box reads Shepherds Well, which is in accordance with most older maps of the railway. 17.06.2015 11381
Old and new. The former signal box at Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, with the modern signal that has replaced it in the foreground. 17.06.2015 11378
A wider view of the sidings north of Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. The East Kent Railway are hoping to acquire these sidings from Network Rail, which might provide indirect rail access from the main line via a shunt movement up the long siding in the distance. The rail link leading into the EKR is easy to reinstate, and goes through the trees to the right of the right-hand Stop board in the distance. 17.06.2015 11374
A longer lens gives a better view of the distant part of the sidings at Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. The long siding has a bad kink (which would need to be repaired) approximately where an old semaphore signal (previously pictured) was removed. The link into the East Kent Railway to the right of the Stop signs is largely hidden by grass, but requires minimal effort to relay a missing track panel. 17.06.2015 11376
A further view of the sidings north of Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. To the left of the red signal is the back of a modern LED shunt signal which controls egress from the sidings. There is extensive rail infrastructure training at the EKR by contractors learning to work on Network Rail, and the roadway across the sidings is assumed to be an infrastructure access. 17.06.2015 11377
A further view of the sidings north of Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail. 17.06.2015 11379
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking south. 17.06.2015 11380
Shepherds Well (or Shepherdswell) Station, Network Rail, looking south. 17.06.2015 12774