Hever railway station

Hever railway station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves Hever in Kent. It is 27 miles 27 chains (44.00 km) from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern.

Hever
Location
PlaceHever
Local authorityDistrict of Sevenoaks
Grid referenceTQ465445
Operations
Station codeHEV
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 37,846
2015/16 40,026
2016/17 35,800
2017/18 42,948
2018/19 45,854
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 Hever from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Hever Castle is about a 1 mile (1.6 km) walk from the station.

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 signal box was built into the station building and remained in use until the line was resignalled in January 1990 when the station was destaffed.

Facilities

Hever 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 both platforms. The station has a small cycle rack located on the Uckfield bound platform.

The Uckfield bound platform is accessible without steps however the London bound platform is only reachable by the stepped footbridge so isn't accessible.[1]

Services

All services at Hever 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

References
  1. "Hever Station Information". Southern, July 2020.
  2. "Timetable 29: Uckfield and East Grinstead to London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.

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