Editing Charing (section)

==Transport==
Transport links provided by the A20 London to Dover road, and direct train services to Ashford International and London Victoria via Maidstone East.

There are two bus stops in Charing, with the only bus services running through being the 10X and 124, which runs exclusively as a school bus.

[[Charing railway station]] was opened on 1 July 1884,<ref name=charing>{{cite web
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}}</ref> as part of the [[London, Chatham and Dover Railway]] (LCDR) extension to {{rws|Ashford West}} of the 1874 [[Maidstone East Line|line]] to Maidstone, which itself was a branch off the LCDR's Sevenoaks branch of 1862, which joined the LCDR [[Chatham Main Line|mainline]] of 1840 at Swanley.<ref name=charing/> In the wake of 1955 [[British Rail]] Modernisation plan, the "Kent Coast Electrification" scheme saw the suburban electrification of the previous [[Southern Railway (Great Britain)|Southern Railway]] extended from Maidstone East through to Ashford. Train services are currently operated by [[Southeastern (train operating company)|Southeastern]], with one train in each direction throughout the middle of the day, and an enhanced service during peak periods.