Rainham railway station (Kent)

Rainham National Rail
Location
Place Rainham
Local authority Borough of Medway
Coordinates 51°21′59″N 0°36′41″E / 51.366411°N 0.611328°E / 51.366411; 0.611328Coordinates: 51°21′59″N 0°36′41″E / 51.366411°N 0.611328°E / 51.366411; 0.611328
Grid reference TQ818662
Operations
Station code RAI
Managed by Southeastern
Number of platforms 3
DfT category C2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 1.693 million
2013/14 Increase 1.716 million
2014/15 Increase 1.722 million
2015/16 Increase 1.776 million
2016/17 Increase 1.821 million
History
25 Jan 1858[1] Opened as Rainham and Newington
1 Aug 1862 Renamed Rainham
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rainham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Medway Towns
North Kent Line (& High Speed)
to London Bridge & St Pancras
Chatham Main Line
to Victoria & Blackfriars
Medway Valley Line
to Maidstone
Halling
Cuxton
Strood
Rochester Bridge | Strood (1st)
Rochester Bridge
Goods station
Rochester Common
Rochester(2015–)
Rochester(1892–2015)
Chatham Central
River Medway
Chatham
Gillingham
 Rainham
Chatham Main Line
to Faversham, Dover and Ramsgate

Rainham railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in south-east England, serving the town of Rainham, Kent. It is 38 miles 74 chains (62.6 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Gillingham and Newington.

The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern. The station has three platforms.[2]. Platform 0 is an "up" bay platform, used mainly by Thameslink Services. Platform 1 is an up through towards London, and platform 2 is a "down" through heading towards Ramsgate and Dover Priory.

It is sometimes shown as Rainham (Kent) in order to distinguish it from the station of the same name in Essex.

Services

Typical off-peak services are:

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Gillingham   Southeastern
Chatham Main Line		   Newington
  Southeastern
High Speed 1		   Sittingbourne
  Southeastern
Chatham Main Line		   Terminus
  Thameslink
Chatham Main Line		   Terminus

In connection with the rebuild of Rochester Station, a new bay platform has been added on the south side (facing towards London).[3]
Trains are now able to use this new platform as the East Kent Resignalling Project has been completed. At present, only a couple of trains use it in the evening rush hour, but from May 2018, Thameslink will be 2 trains per hour starting from here to Luton, via Gravesend, Dartford and Greenwich. This will replace the Gillingham to Charing Cross services, meaning passengers will have to change at Dartford for Charing Cross or Cannon Street.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  2. ↑ "Planning permission for new Rochester station". Southeastern Railway. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "Network Rail unveils plans for new railway station in Rochester, UK". Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Boyden, Katie (23 November 2017). "A new train service which was set to revolutionise travel for some people in Kent has been delayed". kentlive.news. Retrieved 7 April 2018.

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