Editing Tonbridge (section)

==Transport==
[[File:TonbridgeSEMLBridge0053.JPG|thumb|The [[South Eastern Main Line]] crossing the [[River Medway]] upstream of the Sports Ground]]
[[Tonbridge railway station]] is one of Kent's busiest with 4.1&nbsp;million passengers <!--reference is the Tonbridge station article--> using it each year. It is an important railway junction with lines to London, [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]], [[Hastings]] and [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]]. The town is also served by the [[A21 road (England)|A21 trunk road]] between London and Hastings and the [[A26 road|A26]] between Maidstone and Brighton. It is also close to the [[M25 motorway]].

Tonbridge is served by numerous bus routes, most of which are run by [[Arriva Southern Counties]].

[[dual carriageway|Dual]]ing of the A21 from Castle Hill to [[Pembury]], where a new regional hospital opened in 2011, has now been completed and opened in 2018.

Before [[World War I]], aviation pioneers Frank Gooden and Richard Johnson tried to establish an airfield to the north of Tonbridge at Cage Green Fields, at the top of the ridge which The Ridgeway ascends, and east of [[A227 road|Shipbourne Road]]. An accident is recorded as having occurred on 24 December 1913 at the airfield, although neither Gooden or Johnson was injured. The scheme was ended by the outbreak of war.<ref name=Tonbridge>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Magnificent-men-flying-machines/article-2150040-detail/article.html |title=Magnificent men in their flying machines |publisher=Courier Group Newspapers |date=14 May 2010 |access-date=16 February 2011}}</ref>