Place Sheerness Station code SSS DfT category E Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference TQ917748 Managed by Southeastern 2011/12 0.474 million | |
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Address Sheerness ME12 1RJ, United Kingdom Similar Sittingbourne railway station, Kemsley railway station, Aylesham railway station, Bekesbourne railway station, Adisham railway station | ||
Sheerness-on-Sea railway station is on the Sheerness Line in north Kent, England, and serves the town of Sheerness. Train services are provided by Southeastern.
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History
For a period up to 1973 hourly direct services to London Victoria left from platform 2. By 1978 direct services ran only in peak hours, the fastest taking 98mins to reach Victoria, slower than the fastest 81mins, and off-peak half-hourly 94 mins to London St Pancras International 35 years later, which require a change.
After the withdrawal of the Class 411 Ceps, services from August 1998 to December 2006 were operated by the Class 508. From the December 2006 timetable change, the two coach Class 466 are used.
Accidents and incidents
Services
The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour to Sittingbourne, for connections to London. Most services use Platform 1.
Since January 2015, Southeastern operates two direct services from Sheerness-on-Sea to London Victoria in the morning peak. These services do not stop at Sittingbourne by using the third side of a triangle junction (Western Junction) that links the Sheerness Line to the west bound Chatham Mainline. There are also two return services from London Victoria to Sheerness-on-Sea in the evening peak.