Place Kearsney Station code KSN DfT category E Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference TR289439 Managed by Southeastern 2011/12 30,238 | |
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Address Temple Ewell, Dover CT17 0RN, United Kingdom Similar Shepherds Well railway st, Aylesham railway station, Adisham railway station, Bekesbourne railway station, Snowdown railway station | ||
Kearsney railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line in England, and serves Kearsney, Kent. It is 75 miles 9 chains (120.9 km) down-line from London Victoria and is situated between Shepherds Well and Dover Priory, the terminus.
The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.
The booking office in the station building on the country-bound platform is open only for very limited hours on Mondays to Fridays mornings but a Permit To Travel ticket machine (also on the country-bound platform) caters for out-of-hours ticketing.
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 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 practice the loop was little used for passenger trains, and mainly used by freight. Latterly the line was used by coal trains to Richborough power station.
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.