Rochester railway station

This article is about the railway station in the United Kingdom. For the railway station in Victoria, Australia, see Rochester railway station, Victoria.

Rochester
Rochester station building
Location
Place	Rochester
Local authority	Medway
Operations
Station code	RTR
Managed by	Southeastern
Number of platforms	4
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.687 million
2005/06 *	0.705 million
2006/07 *	0.761 million
2007/08 *	0.853 million
2008/09 *	0.927 million
History
Opened 1 March 1892 (1 March 1892)
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rochester from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Rochester railway station serves the town of Rochester in Kent, England. It lies on the Chatham Main Line, with the majority of train services are provided by Southeastern, with a handful of peak services to and from Bedford operated by First Capital Connect.

The station is located approximately 100 metres to the north of Rochester High Street, a short distance to the east of Star Hill. It has four platforms, based on two islands. The tracks are elevated and accessed from a tunnel beneath the islands via stairways or via lifts for disabled access.

Service

Medway Towns
Legend To London Bridge & St Pancras To Victoria & Blackfriars To Maidstone / Strood Rochester Bridge / Strood (1st) Rochester Bridge River Medway Rochester Common Rochester Chatham Central Chatham Gillingham Rainham To Dover and Ramsgate

Typical off-peak services are:

• 2tph to London St Pancras via Ebbsfleet International
• 3tph (trains per hour) to London Victoria via the Medway Towns and Bromley South
• 2tph to London Charing Cross via Dartford and Blackheath
• 3tph to Gillingham (Kent)
• 4tph to Faversham, of which 2tph divide at Faversham with one portion going on to Dover Priory via Canterbury East and the other portion going to Ramsgate via Margate

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Strood		Southeastern North Kent Line		Chatham
Sole Street		Southeastern Chatham Main Line
Strood		Southeastern High Speed 1		Chatham
	Disused railways
Rochester Bridge Line and station closed		London, Chatham and Dover Railway Chatham Main Line		Chatham Line and station open

External links

• Train times and station information for Rochester railway station from National Rail