Gravesend railway station

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Location
Gravesend
Place	Gravesend
Local authority	Gravesham
Operations
Station code	GRV
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit 04/05	2.246 million **
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Gravesend railway station serves the town of Gravesend in north Kent; train services are operated by Southeastern. The station is 24 miles (38km) from London Charing Cross. It comprises central through lines; Up and Down loops serve the two platforms.

The first railway to arrive in Gravesend was the Gravesend & Rochester Railway (G&RR) who had purchased the Thames and Medway Canal and its tunnel between Strood and Higham. The G&RR ran the first train to the then terminus at Gravesend on 10 February 1845. On 30 July 1849 the line was extended to North Kent East Junction on the London and Greenwich Railway and thence to London Bridge.

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

2tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross via Dartford, Woolwich Arsenal and Greenwich
2tph to London Charing Cross via Dartford, Sidcup and Lewisham
2tph to Gillingham
2tph to Sittingbourne railway station] (from 2009) Sittingbourne
2tph to St Pancras railway station via CTRL (from 2009). St Pancras International

The station is to form the major part of the proposed and extensive GravesendTransport Quarter. It remains to be seen however, whether or not, the urgent factor of additional platform capacity could materialise - due to the listed status of the present station buildings, which hampered proposed redevelopment by British Rail in the mid 1970s.