Kearsney railway station

Kearsney
Kearsney
	The station in April 2013
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
	Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	34,326
2015/16	38,128
2016/17	36,174
2017/18	41,544
2018/19	45,878
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.;

Kearsney railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line in England, and serves Kearsney, Kent. It is 75 miles 9 chains (120.9 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Shepherds Well and Dover Priory, the terminus.

The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.

The booking office in the station building on the country-bound platform is open only for very limited hours on Mondays to Fridays mornings but a Permit To Travel ticket machine (also on the country-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, and 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.

References

Southern Region Record by R.H.Clark

External links

Train times and station information for Kearsney railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Shepherds Well		Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch		Dover Priory

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[1] Southern Region Record by R.H.Clark