Adisham railway station

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General information
Location	City of Canterbury
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ADM
History
Opened	22 July 1861

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 in private occupation, and a wooden shelter on the London-bound platform.

The station is completely unstaffed but a "Permit to Travel" self-service ticket machine is located at the entrance to the Dover-bound platform and caters for all ticketing.

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
Bekesbourne		Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch		Aylesham

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Train times and station information for Adisham railway station from National Rail
• Adisham railway station in the 1866 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain & Ireland