✅ CLEARED: The engineering works at #Pluckley have now finished
🕒 If you've been delayed by 15 minutes or more, please claim delay repay:

⚠️ UPDATE: We have received another update from staff working on site at #Pluckley
🕒 Works have progressed well and although an overrun is still expected, this has now been reduced to 10 minutes and the line should be open by approx. 05:10

⚠️ UPDATE: Overrunning engineering works in #Pluckley
👷 Engineers on site expect the work to be finished by approx. 05:30
🔀 There are alterations to services on the Medway Valley line - please check your journey before you travel

⚠️ NEW: Because of overrunning engineering works in #Pluckley the first trains between Ashford and Tonbridge and on the Medway Valley line (Paddock Wood - Strood) will be disrupted
🚆 04:30 Dover Priory - Cannon Street will divert via Maidstone East after Ashford
ℹ️ More info to follow

Pluckley Village (Kent, England): Often called "Britain's most haunted village," Pluckley boasts a plethora of spectral residents, . Take a stroll through its quaint lanes, but keep an eye out for its ghostly inhabitants! #Pluckley #HauntedVillage #GhostlyEncounters

This is the poster for the Monday 19th January 2026 meeting of the Ashford Archaeological and Historical Society where our speaker Dr Kaye Sowden will speak about 'Sir Edward Dering of Pluckley'. Sir Edward lived in the 17th Century and the poster incorporates a manipulated image of him looking out of an ornate window.

We have our next meeting on Monday 19th January at 7.30pm. Weather permitting, Dr Kaye Sowden will speak about 'Sir Edward Dering of Pluckley'. This event will not be streamed/recorded.

Visitors/non-members £4 cash on the door - EVERYONE WELCOME! #history #ashford #lecture #talk #event #pluckley

✅ CLEARED: Services via #Pluckley and #Headcorn are returning to schedule following a fault with the signalling and a broken down freight train earlier

⚠ UPDATE: The broken down freight train at #Pluckley has been able to move and the signalling issue at #Headcorn is also recified. We will now start getting services back to normal. If delayed 15+ mins, claim delay repay: spkl.io/63326AcHXI

⚠ UPDATE: The broken down freight train at #Pluckley has been able to get on the move, albeit very slowly. The train will proceed to a siding at Headcorn which will unblock the London-bound line.

⚠ NEW: Because of a broken down freight train in the #Pluckley area, and a fault with the signalling system in the Headcorn area, services running between Ashford and Tonbridge are severely disrupted.

⚠️ UPDATE: Tree blocking the line at #Pluckley
👷 Response staff are on site
🕑 We currently expect the line to re-open at approx. 20:45
🚆 Single-line running will continue until that time

⚠️ UPDATE: Tree blocking the railway at #Pluckley
🚆 Trains will be able to run in both directions using the unaffected line
🕑 Delays are likely while trains wait for the line ahead to become clear

⚠️ NEW: Because of a train hitting a tree which fell on the line, trains are unable to run from Ashford to #Pluckley
🚆 Services from Pluckley to Ashford are not affected
ℹ️ More information to follow

Shown here is an early 20th century postcard depicting Lewis & Evenden, drapers and grocers (left) and The Black Horse Pub (right) in Pluckley, Kent [ref. KHLC-IMG/PO/1/PLU/4] Located five miles to the west of Ashford and once home to the aristocratic Dering family, Pluckley found its place in the 1989 Guinness Book of World Records owing to numerous reports of supernatural occurrences. Between 12 and 16 spectres allegedly haunt the village, including an impaled highwayman at Fright Corner; a phantom horse-drawn coach at Maltman's Hill (often heard but not seen); a burnt gypsy lady at Pinnock Bridge; the hanging body of a suicidal schoolmaster; the ghost of Lady Dering in the graveyard of St Nicholas’ Church; and a young Victorian boy at the Black Horse Pub. At the latter, it's claimed that tableware and articles of clothing have been seen moving of their own accord – occasionally disappearing, only to return at a later date. So much for having a quiet drink down at the local!

Fright-seeking residents of Kent need not travel far this #Halloween. Allegedly home to over twelve spectres, the village of #Pluckley near #Ashford is said to be the most haunted in England. Visit at your own peril…

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🎃 See KHLC-IMG/PO/1/PLU/4

Ghosts vs. crowds in England's most haunted town Pluckley claims to be England's most haunted town, with dozens of ghosts. Halloween brings so many tourists, the ghosts may be scared away.

Halloween brings hordes of tourists to Pluckley, called the most haunted town in England. Now locals are worried that the crowds are frightening away their resident ghosts. withoutthecrowds.com/ghosts-vs-cr... #overtourism #travelsky #pluckley #hauntedtowns #hauntedengland #travelenthusiasts

Pluckley Village (Kent, England): Often called "Britain's most haunted village," Pluckley boasts a plethora of spectral residents, . Take a stroll through its quaint lanes, but keep an eye out for its ghostly inhabitants! #Pluckley #HauntedVillage #GhostlyEncounters

Orbs in Dering Wood on an overcast afternoon.
#Pluckley #Paranormal