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Birchington-on-Sea railway station
Railway station in Kent, England
Railway station in Kent, England
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Birchington-on-Sea | ||
| symbol_location | gb | ||
| symbol | rail | ||
| image | platform 1 at Birchington-on-Sea station - geograph.org.uk - 1216344.jpg | ||
| borough | Birchington-on-Sea, District of Thanet | ||
| country | England | ||
| coordinates | |||
| grid_name | Grid reference | ||
| grid_position | |||
| manager | Southeastern | ||
| platforms | 2 | ||
| code | BCH | ||
| classification | DfT category E | ||
| original | Kent Coast Railway | ||
| pregroup | South Eastern & Chatham Railway | ||
| postgroup | Southern Railway | ||
| years | |||
| events | Opened as Birchington | ||
| years1 | October 1878 | ||
| events1 | Renamed Birchington-on-Sea | ||
| <!--{{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2017/18 | passengers= 0.414 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2018/19 | passengers= 0.411 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2019/20 | passengers= 0.406 million}}-- |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2020/21 | passengers= 0.122 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2021/22 | passengers= 0.283 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2022/23 | passengers= 0.308 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2023/24 | passengers= 0.341 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2024/25 | passengers= 0.350 million}} |
| footnotes | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
-- Birchington-on-Sea railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the village of Birchington-on-Sea, Kent. It is 70 mi down the line from and is situated between and .
The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
The station is located at one end of the high street and a short distance from the village square. Buses operate from the station to Minnis Bay and Margate on weekdays during peak hours; at other times buses can be caught from the village square.
History
The station was opened on 5 October 1863 by the Kent Coast Railway (KCR). The KCR was operated by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR), which absorbed the KCR on 1 July 1871, and the station was renamed Birchington-on-Sea by the LCDR in October 1878.
A small goods yard was situated on the Up London bound side of the station which closed in the 1970s and operated by the signalbox located midway on the down platform closed about the same time during a resignalling programme. The wire and rod cutout can still be seen within the brick face of the down platform. The 2007 Budget plan of Network Rail allows for the removal of the remaining manual turnround and it is believed short residual siding occasionally used for storing tamping track maintenance units, 'tampers'.
A junction existed to the west of the station to serve RAF Manston until the 1930s operated from a Ground Frame Birchington B located some 440 yd upside of the station - a plan of which can be seen in the RAF Manston Museum.
Services
All services at Birchington-on-Sea are operated by Southeastern using and EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 1 tph to London St Pancras International
- 1 tph to
- 2 tph to
Additional services, including trains to and from and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.
References
References
- Butt, R.V.J.. (1995). "The Directory of Railway Stations". Patrick Stephens Ltd.
- Awdry, Christopher. (1990). "Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies". Guild Publishing.
- McRae, Andrew. (1998). "British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s". Foxline.
- (October 2007). "Railways of Britain: Kent and Sussex". [[Ian Allan Publishing]].
- {{NRtimes. May 2025. 187, 188
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