Kearsney railway station
Kearsney  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Kearsney |
| Local authority | District of Dover |
| Grid reference | TR289439 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | KSN |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2004/05 | 40,001 |
| 2005/06 |
 41,762 |
| 2006/07 |
 40,183 |
| 2007/08 |
45,789 |
| 2008/09 |
43,822 |
| 2009/10 |
36,672 |
| 2010/11 |
35,950 |
| 2011/12 |
30,238 |
| 2012/13 |
32,396 |
| 2013/14 |
33,882 |
| History | |
| 1 August 1862 | opened as Ewell[1] |
| March 1869 | renamed Kearsney |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kearsney from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Kearsney railway station serves Kearsney in Kent. It is served by Southeastern. The booking office in the station building on the Dover-bound platform is open only for very limited hours on Mondays to Fridays mornings but a Permit To Travel ticket machine (also on the Dover-bound platform) caters for out-of-hours ticketing.
The station and the line it serves were built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway as the station for Temple Ewell and the parish of River. The community of Kearsney grew around the Railway Bell Hotel which was on the main Dover to London road. The station had a small goods siding, and a siding for passenger trains. The next stop towards the coast was Dover, and there was also a loop that took the railway directly onto the Kent Coast Line towards Margate, bypassing Dover. In the early days of the railway this meant trains did not always have to make the steep climb out of Dover. In practice the loop was little used for passenger trains, mainly used by freight. Latterly the line was used by coal trains to Richborough power station.
Services
The typical off-peak service from the station is one train per hour to London Victoria via Chatham and Bromley South, and one train per hour to Dover Priory.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Shepherds Well | Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch |
Dover Priory | ||
References
- ↑ Southern Region Record by R.H.Clark
External links
- Train times and station information for Kearsney railway station from National Rail
Coordinates: 51°08′56″N 1°16′19″E / 51.149°N 1.272°E