Kearsney railway station

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Kearsney

Location

Place

Kearsney

Local authority

Dover

Operations

Station code

KSN

Managed by

Southeastern.

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

40,001

2005/06 *

41,762

History

Key dates

Opened 1 August 1862

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

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Kearsney railway station serves Kearsney in Kent. It is served by Southeastern.

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 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 practise it was little used for passenger trains, mainly used by freight. Latterly the line was used by coal trains to Richborough power station.

[edit] 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.