Place Appledore Station code APD DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference TQ975297 Managed by Southern 2011/12 31,346 | |
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Address Ashford TN26 2DG, United Kingdom Similar Pluckley railway station, Sandling railway station, Romney Sands railway st, Ham Street railway station, Dungeness railway station | ||
Appledore railway station lies east of Appledore in Kent, England. It is on the Marshlink Line, and train services are provided by Southern. The station is located almost two miles from Appledore village and 8 1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) south of Ashford.
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Description
It is at a junction of a freight branch line running to Dungeness nuclear power station via Lydd. Appledore is also the start of the single track section of the Marshlink line, which runs through to Ore near Hastings with a passing loop at Rye.
There are no ticketing facilities at Appledore, although APTIS was once provided here until the booking office closed in the very early 1990s. The office buildings on the Ashford-bound platform are unused.
Trains serving the station are Southern diesel Class 171 Turbostars, used on the non-electrified Ashford-Rye-Hastings (Marshlink) route.
A rail track engineering company occupies the yard just south of the station.
History
Opened by the South Eastern Railway, which then merged with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network South East until the Privatisation of British Railways.
Name curiosities
According to National Rail, this station's official name is Appledore (Kent), despite the other Appledore station in Devon having closed in 1917. On official documents and railway company websites, the station is referred to as Appledore (Kent), although most locals know it as just 'Appledore'.
Services
Trains run once every sixty minutes during the day in each direction, north to Ashford and south to Hastings and beyond to/from Brighton via Lewes and Eastbourne.