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Maidstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the event, in 1842, the South Eastern Railway, in its haste to reach the Channel ports of Folkestone and Dover, put its main line through Tonbridge and Ashford, some six miles to the south. |
 | | A station named Maidstone Road was built in an isolated spot called Paddock Wood, from where coaches were run to the county town. |
 | | Two years later a branch line was built to Maidstone. |
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