Place Aylesham Station code AYH DfT category E | Grid reference TR241524 Managed by Southeastern 2011/12 71,352 Number of platforms 2 | |
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Address Aylesham, Canterbury CT3 3AS, United Kingdom Similar Adisham railway station, Bekesbourne railway station, Snowdown railway station, Shepherds Well railway st, Kearsney railway station | ||
Aylesham railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line in England, and serves the village of Aylesham, Kent. It is 68 miles 66 chains (110.8 km) down-line from London Victoria and is situated between Adisham and Snowdown.
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The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.
It was built by the Southern Railway and opened on 1 July 1928 to cater for the considerable increase in passenger traffic brought about by the development of the Kent coalfield. The main station buildings are on the London-bound side of the station.
The station booking office is manned on Mondays to Saturdays mornings and a "Permit to Travel" self-service ticket machine is located on the London-bound platform.
History
Opened by the Southern Railway the station passed to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.
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.