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Marden railway station

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Place
  
Marden

Station code
  
MRN

DfT category
  
E

Number of platforms
  
2

Grid reference
  
TQ743447

Managed by
  
Southeastern

2011/12
  
0.400 million

Local authority
  
Borough of Maidstone

Marden railway station

Address
  
Marden, Tonbridge TN12 9HN, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Staplehurst railway station, Headcorn railway station, Pluckley railway station, Westenhanger railway station, Paddock Wood railway st

Marden railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving Marden in the in the borough of Maidstone, Kent. It is 39 miles 31 chains (63.4 km) down-line from London Charing Cross and is situated between Paddock Wood and Staplehurst. The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.

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The ticket office, staffed for part of the day, is located in a modern building on the London-bound platform 1. A PERTIS permit-to-travel ticket machine used to be located by the ticket office/platform entrance, but as of late 2015 there is a customer self-service ticket machine.

Accidents and incidents

  • At 20:42 on 4 January 1969 there was a collision between a down electric passenger train (formed of 2 x 4CEP units) and a down parcels train to the west of Marden station. Four people were killed. The cause was the driver of the passenger train missing a signal in fog and passing it at danger. Local farmer David Winch of Brook Farm, along with his employees, worked for fourteen hours assisting in the rescue operation. They used their tractors and trailers to ferry the injured across muddy fields from the crash site to waiting ambulances. The ambulance officer in charge at the time, Stanley Skinner, was awarded a BEM in recognition of his role.
  • At 17:56 on 5 September 2012, an up passenger train caught fire at Marden.

    • Services

    As of May 2010 typical off peak services from this station are:

  • 2tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross
  • 1tph to Dover Priory and Canterbury West (dividing at Ashford International)
  • 1tph to Ramsgate via Dover and Canterbury, dividing at Ashford

    • References

    Marden railway station Wikipedia
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