Appledore (Kent) railway station
Appledore  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Appledore |
| Local authority | Ashford |
| Coordinates | 51°01′59″N 0°48′59″E / 51.0330°N 0.8164°ECoordinates: 51°01′59″N 0°48′59″E / 51.0330°N 0.8164°E |
| Grid reference | TQ975297 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | APD |
| Managed by | Southern |
| 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 |
 34,182 |
| 2011/12 |
 31,346 |
| 2012/13 |
36,908 |
| 2013/14 |
40,116 |
| 2014/15 |
37,464 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 13 February 1851 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Appledore from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Appledore railway station lies east of Appledore in Kent, England. It is on the Marshlink Line, and train services are provided by Southern. The station is located almost two miles from Appledore village and 8 1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) south of Ashford.
Description
It is at a junction of a freight branch line running to Dungeness nuclear power station via Lydd. Appledore is also the start of the single track section of the Marshlink line, which runs through to Ore near Hastings with a passing loop at Rye.
There are no ticketing facilities at Appledore, although APTIS was once provided here until the booking office closed in the very early 1990s. The office buildings on the Ashford-bound platform are unused.
Trains serving the station are Southern diesel Class 171 Turbostars, used on the non-electrified Ashford-Rye-Hastings (Marshlink) route.
A rail track engineering company occupies the yard just south of the station.
History
Opened by the South Eastern Railway, which then merged with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network South East until the Privatisation of British Railways.
Name curiosities
According to National Rail, this station's official name is Appledore (Kent), despite the other Appledore station in Devon having closed in 1917. On official documents and railway company websites, the station is referred to as Appledore (Kent), although most locals know it as just 'Appledore'.
Services
Trains run once every sixty minutes during the day in each direction, north to Ashford and south to Hastings and beyond to/from Brighton via Lewes and Eastbourne.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rye | Southern Marshlink Line |
Ham Street | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Terminus | BR Southern Region Marshlink - Dungeness branch |
Brookland Halt Line and station closed | ||
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.
- Station on navigable O.S. map.
External links
- Train times and station information for Appledore (Kent) railway station from National Rail
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