Ham Street railway station

Ham Street railway station is a Grade II listed stop on the Marshlink line in the village of Hamstreet, Kent, between Ashford International and Hastings. Services are provided by Southern.

Ham Street
Location
PlaceHamstreet
Local authorityAshford
Grid referenceTR000337
Operations
Station codeHMT
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 97,164
2015/16 0.102 million
2016/17 91,940
2017/18 87,772
2018/19 98,590
History
Key datesOpened 13 February 1851 (13 February 1851)
Listed status
Listed featureRailway station
Listing gradeGrade II
Entry number1391381[1]
Added to list9 May 2005
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ham Street from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Location

The station is on a dual-track section of the unelectrified Marshlink Line. Train services are provided by Southern and operated by Class 171 Turbostar diesel trains.[2]

The booking office - open on Mondays to Saturdays mornings - is located in the main station building on the Ashford-bound platform. The two PERTIS passenger-operated self-service ticket machines - one on each platform - have now been removed and replaced with Ticket Vending machines on each platform,[3] which allows a ticket to be purchased from any origin, as opposed to just from Ham Street. The PERTIS passenger-operated self-service machines were installed in connection with a Penalty Fares Scheme in 2008.

History

The station was built by the South Eastern Railway as one of four original stops on the line from Ashford to Hastings (the others being Appledore, Rye and Winchelsea). It opened on 13 February 1851. A goods station was added later in the year.[4]

The original name was Ham Street. It was renamed to Ham Street & Orlestone on 1 February 1897, and then reverted to Ham Street in 1976.[5] It was Grade II listed in 2005.[1]

Along with several other stations on the line, Ham Street opened with staggered platforms, allowing a crossing across the railway from one to the other.[6] After several accidents and near misses, a temporary footbridge was provided in 2014, replacing the previous flat crossing of the railway.[7] It was replaced by a permanent bridge in 2017.[8]

Services

The typical service is:

  • 1 train per hour (tph) to Ashford International. Since December 2009 this has provided an indirect connection to St. Pancras International on High Speed 1 with a journey time of 37 minutes from Ashford.[9]
  • 1 train per hour to Eastbourne, calling at Appledore (Kent), Rye, Winchelsea or Three Oaks, Hastings, St Leonards Warrior Square, Bexhill, Collington, Cooden Beach, Normans Bay, Pevensey & Westham and Hampden Park
  • At peak times an additional shuttle service runs hourly between Ashford International and Rye giving two trains an hour in each direction.

Trains previously ran to Brighton, but the service was withdrawn in May 2018.[10]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Appledore (Kent)   Southern
Marshlink Line		   Ashford International

References

Citations

  1. Historic England. "Hamstreet and Orlestone Railway Station (1391381)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  2. "Network Rail Route Plan A 2010" (PDF). Network Rail. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  3. "New ticket buying options". Southern News East Coastway. Spring 2011. p. 3. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  4. Gray 1990, pp. 210-11.
  5. Butt 1995, p. 113.
  6. Mitchell & Smith 1987, 110.
  7. "Temporary footbridge for Ham Street station after level crossing incidents". Network Rail Media Centre. Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  8. "Work to improve access for all at Ham Street station in Kent gets under way". Network Rail Media Centre. Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Plans to axe unpopular two-carriage Eastbourne train service". Eastbourne Herald. 4 July 2017. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.

Sources

  • 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.
  • Gray, Adrian (1990). South Eastern Railway. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-85-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1987). South Coast Railways - Hastings to Ashford and the New Romney Branch. Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-37-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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