Adisham railway station

Adisham
Location
Place	Adisham
Local authority	City of Canterbury
Coordinates
Grid reference	TR233539
Operations
Station code	ADM
Managed by	Southeastern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	53,898
2005/06	53,857
2006/07	58,776
2007/08	55,873
2008/09	49,002
2009/10	45,560
2010/11	36,938
2011/12	32,046
2012/13	28,388
2013/14	24,058
History
Key dates	Opened 22 July 1861 (22 July 1861)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Adisham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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.

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

• 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 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain & Ireland