Brick Kiln Lane Bridge, Horsmonden

About 1km  (0.7 miles) south of the station site there was another plate girder bridge that crossed the road on an embankment. This was on Brick Kiln Road and adjacent to Nevergood Farm. Sadly this has now been dismantled but in this case at least the bricks seem to have been removed and not left to blight an adjacent field.

                                                 Above: A poor image of the bridge circa 1955.

                                         
                                   Looking east towards the site of the bridge today. You can tell that there are farm trails to the left and right which now run over the site of the track. The track was still dropping from Horsmonden tunnel at 1 in 117 (or 1 in 110)

                                    This is looking north, the site of Old Nevergood Farm.

                                              Looking south towards Goudhurst Station.

I would very much have liked to have taken a closer look down here to see if there is anything left but it is obviously very private and the gate is padlocked so I continue on.

Seen from the west the embankment graduating the drop down into the Teise Valley still exists. Trains were delayed for some time near here in the October of the first year of operation, It appears that there was several days of heavy rain and because the grasses had not colonised the embankment properly much of the embankment subsequently collapsed.

Above a view of Goudhurst village from Brick Kiln Lane. It would have been quite impossible to run a railway up there, so they were forced to cite the station 1 mile away from the village.