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Aylesford railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in Kent,England,serving the village of Aylesford. It is 38 miles 74 chains (62.6 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Strood and is situated between New Hythe and Maidstone Barracks. The station opened on 18 June 1856.
The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
Aylesford was opened by the South Eastern Railway,which merged with local rival London,Chatham &Dover Railway on 1 January 1899 to form the South Eastern &Chatham Railway. The station became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923,and was passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s,the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways. On 21 October 1988,a plaque was unveiled at Aylesford in the presence of the Network SouthEast director,Chris Green,to commemorate completion of the project to restore the station building to its original 1856 condition. [1] The project cost £250,000,£50,000 of which was contributed by the Railway Heritage Trust. [1] During the ceremony,Green announced plans for a £4 million resignalling package for the Medway Valley line to replace the semaphore signals by a multi-aspect colour light system controlled from Maidstone West box. [1]
The ticket office,in a building on the northbound platform,was closed in September 1989 and an Indian restaurant—now incorporating a fried chicken takeaway—was subsequently established in the building. In 2007,a permit to travel ticket machine was installed just inside the entrance to the station,on the northbound platform. [2] In early 2016 the Permit to Travel machine was removed with plans to replace it with a ticket machine.[ citation needed ]
All services at Aylesford are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [3]
A small number of morning,mid afternoon and late evening trains continue beyond Paddock Wood to Tonbridge.
On Sundays,the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.
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The section of the line surrounding Aylesford Station passes through what was part of the Preston Hall Estate,the then home of Edward Betts,the railway contractor who built this part of the Medway Valley Line. Consequently,the station building is much grander than other country stations along the line. The station buildings are gabled and highly decorated,built in Kentish ragstone with Caen stone dressings,in part reflecting a simplified version of the style of Preston Hall. Windows replicate those at Aylesford Priory.
Following restoration and refurbishment,the station building received an Ian Allan award in 2001,commemorated by a plaque in the waiting room/booking office,which is now in use as an Indian Takeaway Restaurant.
Albany Park railway station is in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London. It is 12 miles 68 chains (20.7 km) down the line from Charing Cross. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.
The Medway Valley line is the name given to the railway line linking Strood in the Medway Towns via Maidstone West to Tonbridge. High Speed services also link between Maidstone West,Snodland,Strood and London St Pancras International. The section from Maidstone West to Paddock Wood passes through some of Kent's most picturesque countryside along the narrower sections of the River Medway.
Strood railway station serves the town of Strood in Medway,England. It is on the North Kent Line and is also a terminus of the Medway Valley Line. It is 31 miles 11 chains (50.1 km) down the line from London Charing Cross.
Adisham railway station is a stop on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line;it serves the village of Adisham,Kent,England. It is 67 miles 60 chains (109.0 km) down the line from London Victoria,situated between Bekesbourne and Aylesham. The station and all trains that serve it are operated by Southeastern.
Aylesham railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line;it serves the village of Aylesham,in Kent,England. It is 68 miles 66 chains (110.8 km) down the line from London Victoria,situated between Adisham and Snowdown. The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.
Bat &Ball railway station is on Bat &Ball Road in the suburban town of Sevenoaks in Kent,England. The station is managed by Southeastern although all trains that serve the station are Thameslink. It is 25 miles 51 chains (41.3 km) from London Victoria,although all northbound trains run to London Blackfriars.
Paddock Wood railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line and Medway Valley Line in south-east England,serving the Borough of Tunbridge Wells town of Paddock Wood. The station also serves the villages of Matfield,Brenchley and Horsmonden,which do not have stations of their own. It is 34 miles 67 chains (56.1 km) down the line from London Charing Cross. The station and all trains calling there are operated by Southeastern.
Cuxton railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in Kent,England,and lies well to the east of the village of Cuxton. It is 33 miles 36 chains (53.8 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Strood and is situated between Strood and Halling. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
Maidstone Barracks railway station is one of three railway stations which serve the town of Maidstone in Kent,England. Originally opened as Barracks station,it is named after the nearby Invicta Park Barracks and lies on the Medway Valley Line,42 miles (68 km) from London Charing Cross via Strood between Aylesford and Maidstone West. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.
Halling railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in Kent,England,and lies a little to the north of the village of Halling. It is 35 miles 18 chains (56.7 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Strood and is situated between Cuxton and Snodland. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
New Hythe railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in Kent,England,serving the village of New Hythe. It is 38 miles 3 chains (61.2 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Strood and is situated between Snodland and Aylesford. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
East Farleigh railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in Kent,England,located to the south-west of Maidstone and close to the village of East Farleigh,on the opposite (south) bank of the River Medway,though the station is actually located in Barming parish. It is 42 miles 75 chains (69.1 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Paddock Wood. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
Wateringbury railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in Kent,England,serving the villages of Wateringbury and Nettlestead. It is 39 miles 77 chains (64.3 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Paddock Wood and is situated between Yalding and East Farleigh. The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.
Balcombe railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England,serving the village of Balcombe,West Sussex. It is 33 miles 64 chains (54.4 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill and is situated between Three Bridges and Haywards Heath. It is managed by Southern,but trains calling at the station are operated by Thameslink.
Addlestone railway station serves the town of Addlestone in the Runnymede District of Surrey,England. It is located on the Chertsey Branch Line and is operated by South Western Railway.
Adlington (Cheshire) railway station serves the village of Adlington in Cheshire,England.
Nitshill railway station is situated in Nitshill,a district of Glasgow,Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line,5+3⁄4 miles (9.3 km) southwest of Glasgow Central.
Audley End railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the village of Wendens Ambo and the market town of Saffron Walden in Essex,England. It is 41 miles 55 chains (67.1 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Newport and Great Chesterford stations. Its three-letter station code is AUD.
Chester Road railway station serves the areas of Pype Hayes,Erdington and Wylde Green in north-east Birmingham,in the West Midlands county of England. It is sited on the Cross-City Line between Bromsgrove/Redditch and Lichfield Trent Valley,via Birmingham New Street. Pedestrian access to the station is via Green Lanes,near to the junction with the Chester Road (A452). It is above road level,as the line here is on an embankment.
Alnmouth is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line,which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The station,situated 34 miles 69 chains north of Newcastle,serves the coastal and rural villages of Alnmouth and Lesbury and the market town of Alnwick in Northumberland,England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
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London Charing Cross to Gillingham |
Other alternative routes from London to Dartford via Sidcup and via Bexleyheath. | ||
London Victoria to Ramsgate via Chatham | |||
London Victoria to Dover via Chatham | |||
London Victoria to Ashford via Maidstone East | |||
London St Pancras to Paris & Brussels High Speed 1 | |||
London Charing Cross to Dover via Tonbridge | |||
London Charing Cross to Hastings | |||
London Bridge to Uckfield | |||
Ashford to Ramsgate via Canterbury West | |||
Dover to Margate | |||
Redhill–Tonbridge | |||
Sittingbourne to Sheerness-on-Sea | |||
Ashford to St Leonards Marshlink | |||
Strood to Paddock Wood Medway Valley Line | |||
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East Kent Railway |
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Kent & East Sussex Railway | |||
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway | |||
Spa Valley Railway |