Chestfield & Swalecliffe railway station

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Chestfield & Swalecliffe

Location

Place

Swalecliffe

Local authority

City of Canterbury

Operations

Station code

CSW

Managed by

Southeastern.

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.142 million

2005/06 *

0.146 million

History

Key dates

Opened 6 July 1930^[1]

National Rail - UK railway stations

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chestfield & Swalecliffe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

UK Railways Portal

Chestfield & Swalecliffe railway station, initially is a UK railway station on the Chatham Main Line in north Kent, and serves Chestfield and Swalecliffe, villages which are now part of the built-up area between Whitstable and Herne Bay. Train services are provided by Southeastern.

The station was originally opened as "Swalecliffe Halt" halt on 6 July 1930 by Southern Railway.^[1] It was latter renamed "Chestfield & Swalecliffe Halt", shortened to Chestfield in 1987 and reverted back to "Chestfield & Swalecliffe" in 1989. Although the train station itself actually lies in the village of Swalecliffe the station still refers to Chestfield for people exploring the area, without prior knowledge of the location of Chestfield.^[1]

There are waiting shelters and an Up side booking office, which is open for a few hours each morning; the platforms are built of rails and sleepers. The "down" ticket office was burnt down by vandals in 1991.^[1]

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is one train per hour to London Victoria via the Medway Towns and Bromley South, and one train per hour to Ramsgate via Margate.