Adisham railway station
Adisham  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Adisham |
| Local authority | City of Canterbury |
| Coordinates | 51°14′27″N 1°11′56″E / 51.2409°N 1.1989°ECoordinates: 51°14′27″N 1°11′56″E / 51.2409°N 1.1989°E |
| Grid reference | TR233539 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ADM |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 36,938 |
| 2011/12 |
32,046 |
| 2012/13 |
28,388 |
| 2013/14 |
24,058 |
| 2014/15 |
22,374 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 22 July 1861 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Adisham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Adisham railway station serves Adisham in the English county of Kent, and is served by Southeastern. There are brick buildings on the Dover-bound platform, formerly in railway use but now privately occupied, and a wooden shelter on the London-bound platform. The Dover-bound platform is accessible by road and the London-bound by public footpath. There is a connecting footbridge.
The station is completely unstaffed. There is a help point on each platform, electronic departure boards were added in May 2016 and a ticket machine (accepting credit/debit cards) in October the same year.
History
The station and the line it serves (Faversham to Dover) were built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, and opened on 22 July 1861. Becoming part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948 until the privatisation of British Railways.
When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast.
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.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Bekesbourne | Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch |
Aylesham | ||
References
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
- Station on navigable O.S. map
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adisham railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Adisham railway station from National Rail
- Adisham railway station in the 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain & Ireland