Chartham_railway_station
Chartham railway station
Railway station in Kent, England
Chartham railway station is in Chartham, Kent, on the Ashford to Ramsgate line. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Southeastern.
Chartham  | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Chartham, Canterbury England |
| Grid reference | TR107552 |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | CRT |
| Classification | DfT category F2 |
| History | |
| Opened | September 1850 |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  73,888 |
| 2019/20 | 79,206 |
| 2020/21 |  21,736 |
| 2021/22 | 64,192 |
| 2022/23 | 79,814 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
The station is to the north of Chartham village and south of the A28 road which runs parallel from Ashford to Canterbury. It is unstaffed, but has electronic indicator boards and a ticket machine. There are two platforms, connected by a footbridge. A level crossing at the south end of the station, by the signal box, was formerly manually operated but was replaced with automated crossing gates in December 2022.[1][2][3]
The station was opened by the South Eastern Railway (SER) in September 1850, some time after the line from Ashford to Canterbury was completed.[4][lower-alpha 1] In common with several other stations on the line, there was a level crossing as the SER did not believe the line would attract sufficient traffic for bridges.[7]
Goods services were withdrawn from the station on 19 November 1962.[6]
At around 06:45 on 9 October 1894, a wagon of hop-pickers on their way to work at Horton Chapel Farm was struck by the delayed 04:15 down Ashford to Canterbury West goods train. Canterbury West goods train. Five hop-pickers were killed instantly, with a further two dying from their injuries later. The investigation found that the wagon driver had left the opening of the gates to children in poor visibility, and had failed to stop before crossing. The train crew whistled at least three times while approaching the crossing. The inspecting officer, Charles Scrope Hutchinson, criticised the South Eastern Railway for the excessively long rostered hours of the train crew.[8] Ultimately, blame was assigned to the wagon driver and the SER was exonerated.[9]
All services at Chartham are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[10]
- 1 tph to London Charing Cross via Tonbridge
- 1 tph to Ramsgate
During the peak hours, the station is also served by trains to London Cannon Street.
The station is also served by a single early morning service to London St Pancras International, operated by a Class 395 EMU.
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern | ||||
Notes
Citations
- Castle, Liane (3 January 2023). "Villagers welcome new automated level crossings in Wye and Chartham as traffic reduced". Kent Online. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- "Chartham". Network Rail. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- "Chartham Level Crossing". The ABC railway Guide. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- McCarthy & McCarthy 2007, p. 122.
- Hutchinson, Charles Scrope (29 October 1894). Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Chartham on 9th October 1894. Board of Trade (Report). Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- Table 197, 207 National Rail timetable, December 2022
Sources
- 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.
- Gray, Adrian (1990). South Eastern Railway. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-85-7.
- McCarthy, Colin; McCarthy, David (2007). Railway of Britain : Kent and Sussex. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-3222-4.
- Train times and station information for Chartham railway station from National Rail