Integration
The SE&CR began connecting the two largely separate networks and new services were introduced, reaping the benefits of joint working. A significant step was the construction of a junction in 1902-4 between the SER and LC&DR mainlines where they crossed near Bickley and St Mary Cray, east of Bromley. LC&DR's terminating line via Maidstone to Ashford was connected to the SER station at Ashford. The SER branch from Strood to Chatham alongside the LC&DR's main line to Chatham was closed prior to World War One. Later the overlapping network on the Isle of Thanet (Margate-Broadstairs-Ramsgate) was rationalised by the Southern Railway. Later service cuts under BR saw Gravesend lose its second station.
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