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Monks Lane Halt railway station

railway stop in Oxted, the UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ39060739 ↗
Source-derived summary

Monks Lane Halt was a railway halt about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south of Hurst Green. It was on the Uckfield Branch of the Oxted line beside Monks Lane bridge.

History

The station was opened on 1 June 1907 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) to serve expected development nearby, at the same time as the nearby Hurst Green halt. The halt consisted of two wooden platforms with a corrugated iron shelter on each.

The station closed to passengers on 11 September 1939. The line remains open and is today used by trains on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line, although nothing remains of the station.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Monks Lane Halt railway station” is railway stop in Oxted, the UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Monks, Lane and Halt, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Monks, Lane and Halt is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q39060739. Authority coordinates are 51.220, 0.035. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907 and 1939.

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This entry incorporates text from “Monks Lane Halt railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.