The South Eastern Railway (SER) commissioned the double-track North Kent Line between the Grand Surrey Canal and Strood in 1849, via Lewisham, Woolwich, Dartford, and Gravesend, passenger traffic commencing on 30th July of that year. "Swanscombe Halt" was commissioned on 2nd November 1908, at about milepost 20½ from Charing Cross via Greenwich. The station comprised a pair of timber platforms and had been brought into use, along with "Stone Crossing Halt". In the 1920s the original "Swanscombe Halt" was closed and replaced by a new station 840-yards to the east. This comprised two 660-foot-long prefabricated concrete platforms, which had been manufactured at the SR's works at Exmouth Junction, Devon, and upon these was a timber waiting shelter of tongue-and-groove construction, each about 30-feet-long. The platforms were each fed by a flight of stairs, which connected to dedicated footpaths emanating from the High Street which crossed over the line at the western end of the station. (1)

Historic England archive material: BF006981 SWANSCOMBE HALT, SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE

<1> David Glasspool, 2017, Kent Rail - Swanscombe (Website). SKE53556.