Cowden railway station

Cowden railway station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves Cowden in Kent. It is 29 miles 26 chains (47.19 km) from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern.

Cowden
Location
PlaceCowden
Local authorityDistrict of Sevenoaks
Grid referenceTQ476417
Operations
Station codeCWN
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms1
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 52,100
2015/16 51,066
2016/17 48,072
2017/18 53,896
2018/19 54,354
History
Key datesOpened 1 October 1888 (1 October 1888)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cowden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
Platform view (1987)

History

The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 1 October 1888. It passed onto the Southern Railway in 1923 and to British Railways in 1948.

The station was destaffed in the 1990s. When the line was singled in 1990 the "up" platform was taken out of use and all trains now use the former "down" platform. The track is not electrified, so only diesel or steam trains can run.

In 1994 a serious accident occurred just south of the station.

Facilities

Cowden station is unstaffed and tickets must be bought from the self-service ticket machine at the station.

The station has passenger help points and covered seating areas available on its platform. The station also has a small car park and cycle rack at the station entrance.

Step free access is available to the platform at Cowden.[1]

Services

All services at Cowden are operated by Southern using Class 171 DMUs. The current off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]

Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the northbound service runs as far as Oxted only.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Southern
Oxted Line
Uckfield Branch
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References
  1. "Cowden Station Information". Southern, July 2020.
  2. "Timetable 29: Uckfield and East Grinstead to London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.

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