Bekesbourne railway station

Bekesbourne

Location
Place	Bekesbourne
Local authority	City of Canterbury
Grid reference	TR189560
Operations
Station code	BKS
Managed by	Southeastern
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	35,386
2005/06	39,140
2006/07	49,045
2007/08	48,737
2008/09	56,896
2009/10	45,970
2010/11	38,450
2011/12	38,398
2012/13	32,966
History
Key dates	Opened 22 July 1861 (22 July 1861)
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bekesbourne from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bekesbourne railway station serves the villages of Bekesbourne, Bishopsbourne, Littlebourne and Patrixbourne in Kent, England, and is located between Canterbury East and Dover Priory. It is served by Southeastern.

The station has no booking office but a "Permit to Travel" self-service ticket machine is located on the London-bound platform and caters for all ticketing.

The station and the line it serves were built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and opened on 22 July 1861. The platforms are linked by a footbridge. Nearby is a viaduct over the Nailbourne Stream, a tributary of the River Stour.

Bekesbourne Station in 1963

Services

Off-peak the station services one train per hour to London Victoria via Chatham and Bromley South, and one train per hour to Dover Priory.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Canterbury East		Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch		Adisham

External links

Train times and station information for Bekesbourne railway station from National Rail

Railway stations in Kent

London Charing Cross to Gillingham:

Other alternative routes from London to Dartford via Sidcup and via Bexleyheath.

London Victoria to Ramsgate
via Chatham:

London Victoria to Dover
via Chatham:

London Victoria to Ashford
via Maidstone East:

Eynsford
Shoreham
Otford
branch line to Sevenoaks via Bat and Ball
Kemsing
Borough Green and Wrotham
West Malling
East Malling
Barming
Maidstone East
Bearsted
Hollingbourne
Harrietsham
Lenham
Charing
Ashford International

London St Pancras to Paris and Brussels:
High Speed 1

Ebbsfleet International
Ashford International
Also London to Faversham via Ebbsfleet and Chatham, and to Dover and Ramsgate via Ashford

London Charing Cross to Dover
via Tonbridge:

London Charing Cross to Hastings:

London Bridge to Uckfield:

Ashford to Ramsgate
via Canterbury West:

Dover to Margate:

Redhill to Tonbridge:

Sittingbourne to Sheerness-on-Sea:

Ashford to St Leonards:
Marshlink

Strood to Paddock Wood
Medway Valley Line:

Heritage Railways

East Kent Railway

Shepherdswell (EKR) (Adjacent to Shepherds Well)
Eythorne

Kent and East Sussex Railway:

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway:

Spa Valley Railway:

Tunbridge Wells West

Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes

Thameslink and Great Northern routes serving this station

None

Southern routes serving this station

None

Southeastern routes serving this station

Mainline via Chatham	London Victoria Bromley South London Cannon Street London Bridge St Mary Cray Swanley Farningham Road Longfield Meopham Sole Street Rochester Chatham Gillingham (Kent) Rainham (Kent) Newington Sittingbourne Teynham Faversham Selling Canterbury East Bekesbourne Adisham Aylesham Snowdown Shepherds Well Kearsney Dover Priory Whitstable Chestfield & Swalecliffe Herne Bay Birchington-on-Sea Westgate-on-Sea Margate Broadstairs Dumpton Park Ramsgate

Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.

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Coordinates: 51°15′40″N 1°08′13″E / 51.261°N 1.137°E / 51.261; 1.137