Kearsney railway station

Kearsney
The station in April 2013
General information
Location	Kearsney, District of Dover England
Grid reference	TR289439
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KSN
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
1 August 1862	opened as Ewell[1]
March 1869	renamed Kearsney
Passengers
2018/19	45,878
2019/20	42,752
2020/21	17,124
2021/22	36,656
2022/23	38,056
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kearsney railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line in England, and serves Kearsney and Temple Ewell. It is 75 miles 9 chains (120.9 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Shepherds Well and Dover Priory, the terminus.

The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.

The booking office in the station building on the country-bound platform is open only for very limited hours on Mondays to Fridays mornings but a Permit To Travel ticket machine (also on the country-bound platform) caters for out-of-hours ticketing.

The station and the line it serves were built by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway as the station for Temple Ewell and the parish of River. The community of Kearsney grew around the Railway Bell Hotel which was on the main Dover to London road. The station had a small goods siding, and a siding for passenger trains. The next stop towards the coast was Dover, and there was also a loop that took the railway directly onto the Kent Coast Line towards Margate, bypassing Dover. In the early days of the railway this meant trains did not always have to make the steep climb out of Dover. In practice the loop was little used for passenger trains, and mainly used by freight. Latterly the line was used by coal trains to Richborough power station.