Broadstairs railway station

Broadstairs railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the seaside town of Broadstairs, Kent. It is 77 miles 9 chains (124 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Margate and Dumpton Park.

Broadstairs
View of Main Platform
Location
PlaceBroadstairs
Local authorityDistrict of Thanet
Grid referenceTR391679
Operations
Station codeBSR
Managed bySoutheastern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.606 million
2015/16 0.663 million
2016/17 0.710 million
2017/18 0.764 million
2018/19 0.799 million
History
Key datesOpened 5 October 1863 (5 October 1863)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Broadstairs from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
View NNW, towards Margate in 1963. Crampton Tower on the left

The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern. Trains to London can run either way through the station, depending on the route either via Margate or Ramsgate.

History
Broadstairs station under British Rail with two 4 CEPs in 'Jaffa cake' livery in 1990.

The first proposal for a station at Broadstairs was by the South Eastern Railway (SER) in November 1859, who wanted to extend their existing station at Ramsgate towards Broadstairs at an estimated cost of £20,000. However, the scheme was refused permission by the station master at Ramsgate.[1]

Instead, the station was built by the Kent Coast Railway as part of an extension from Margate to Ramsgate Harbour.[2] It opened on 5 October 1863.[3] From the beginning, the line was operated by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR), who bought the Kent Coast Railway on 1 July 1871.[2]

The station was run by the Southern Railway (SR) following the Railways Act 1921. Having inherited lines from the LCDR and SER, the SR decided to simplify services by constructing a new line linking Broadstairs directly to the current Ramsgate station, thus joining the stations together and forming a loop along Kent. This opened on 2 July 1926.[4]

Electric services began at Broadstairs on 15 June 1959.[4] Goods services were withdrawn from the station on 3 June 1963.[5] A high-speed service to London St Pancras began on 13 December 2009.[6]

Incidents

In 2015, a woman was killed by a train at the station.[7]

Services

As of December 2019 the typical off-peak service from the station is:[8][9]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Margate   Southeastern
Chatham Main Line - Ramsgate Branch		   Dumpton Park
Margate   Southeastern
High Speed 1
St Pancras International to St Pancras International Circular		   Ramsgate
Margate   Southeastern
High Speed 1
London-Margate via Ashford		   Ramsgate
Disused railways
Margate East
Line open, station closed		   London, Chatham and Dover Railway
Chatham Main Line - Ramsgate Branch		   Ramsgate Harbour
Line and station closed

References

Citations

  1. Gray 1990, p. 34.
  2. McCarthy & McCarthy 2007, p. 30.
  3. Butt 1995, p. 45.
  4. McCarthy & McCarthy 2007, p. 66.
  5. McCarthy & McCarthy 2007, p. 121.
  6. "High Speed". Southeastern. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  7. Collins, Julia (11 August 2015). "Woman dies at Broadstairs rail station after being hit by train". kentonline.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  8. "December 2019: London - Ashford, Folkestone, Dover and Margate" (PDF). Southeastern. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  9. "Timetable 2 - London to Medway Towns, Sittingbourne, Sheerness-on-Sea, Faversham, Dover and Ramsgate" (PDF). Southeastern. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

Sources

  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Gray, Adrian (1990). South Eastern Railway. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-85-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • McCarthy, Colin; McCarthy, David (2007). Railways of Britain : Kent and Sussex. Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-3222-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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