One of the most important advantages of this railway scheme will be that Pembury is connected to the national railway network for the first time. The map above gives an approximate alignment of the railway. This emerges from a tunnel (on the left) and passes underneath the A21 London – Hastings road, followed shortly by another bridge under Tonbridge Road. Two platforms are situated here, with passenger access being from a station building situated adjacent to the road. Beyond this is a further tunnel taking the route towards Five Oak Green.
The proposed station is sited between Pembury’s High Street, the main commercial road in this large village (with a population above 6,000 people, representing one of the largest places in Kent without a station) and the area’s principal hospital, one of the largest workplaces in the town and one with a constant flow of patients and visitors. Journey times from the centre of Tunbridge Wells would be three minutes or so, a great improvement on current bus times.
A combined foot and cycle path could also link the station with the Sandown Park district of Tunbridge Wells (the built up area on the left) and with the Upper Green area of Pembury to the north east.
Although no direct services to London are planned, those wishing to travel there will be able to make an easy connection at Tunbridge Wells or Paddock Wood, both of which have frequent trains to the capital.
Heart Of Kent Line 