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Aylesford railway station
Railway station in Kent, England
Railway station in Kent, England
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Aylesford | ||
| symbol_location | gb | ||
| symbol | rail | ||
| image | Aylesford railway station in 2009.jpg | ||
| borough | Aylesford, Tonbridge and Malling | ||
| country | England | ||
| coordinates | |||
| grid_name | Grid reference | ||
| grid_position | |||
| manager | Southeastern | ||
| platforms | 2 | ||
| code | AYL | ||
| classification | DfT category F2 | ||
| opened | 18 June 1856 | ||
| <!-- {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2017/18 | passengers= 0.145 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2018/19 | passengers= 0.162 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2019/20 | passengers= 0.166 million}} -- |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2020/21 | passengers= 41,442}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2021/22 | passengers= 0.118 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2022/23 | passengers= 0.109 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2023/24 | passengers= 0.152 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2024/25 | passengers= 0.185 million}} |
| footnotes | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
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Aylesford railway station serves the village of Aylesford, in Kent, England. It is a stop on the Medway Valley Line, 38 mi down the line from London Charing Cross, via ; it is situated between and . The station is operated by Southeastern, along with all trains that serve it.
History
Aylesford was opened by the South Eastern Railway, which merged with local rival London, Chatham & Dover Railway on 1 January 1899 to form the South Eastern & Chatham Railway. The station became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923, and was 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 SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail. On 21 October 1988, a plaque was unveiled at Aylesford in the presence of the Network SouthEast director, Chris Green, to commemorate completion of the project to restore the station building to its original 1856 condition. The project cost £250,000, £50,000 of which was contributed by the Railway Heritage Trust. During the ceremony, Green announced plans for a £4 million resignalling package for the Medway Valley line to replace the semaphore signals by a multi-aspect colour light system controlled from box.
Buildings
The section of the line surrounding Aylesford station passes through what was part of the Preston Hall Estate, the then home of Edward Betts, the railway contractor that built this part of the Medway Valley Line. Consequently, the station building is much grander than other country stations along the line. The station buildings are gabled and highly decorated, built in Kentish ragstone with Caen stone dressings, in part reflecting a simplified version of the style of Preston Hall. Windows replicate those at Aylesford Priory.
Following restoration and refurbishment, the station building received an Ian Allan award in 2001, commemorated by a plaque in the waiting room/booking office. The ticket office, in a building on the northbound platform, was closed in September 1989; an Indian restaurant, incorporating a fried chicken takeaway, was subsequently established in the building. In 2007, a permit to travel ticket machine was installed just inside the entrance to the station, on the northbound platform. In early 2016 the Permit to Travel machine was removed with plans to replace it with a ticket machine.
Services
All services at Aylesford are operated by Southeastern using electric multiple units.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 2 tph to
- 2 tph to , via
A small number of morning, mid afternoon and late evening trains continue beyond Paddock Wood to .
On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.
References
Citations
Bibliography
References
- (January 1989). "Medway Valley". [[Modern Railways]].
- (December 2007). The Journal of the Transport Ticket Society. The Transport Ticket Society
- (15 May 2025). "Timetables". Southeastern Railway.
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