Farningham Road railway station

Farningham Road
Viewed from the west
Location
Place	Sutton-at-Hone
Local authority	Sevenoaks
Coordinates	51°24′06″N 0°14′10″E / 51.401575°N 0.236222°E / 51.401575; 0.236222Coordinates: 51°24′06″N 0°14′10″E / 51.401575°N 0.236222°E / 51.401575; 0.236222
Operations
Station code	FNR
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	178,550
2005/06 *	178,361
2006/07 *	197,952
2007/08 *	222,565
History
3 December 1860	Opened
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Farningham Road from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Farningham Road railway station is on the Chatham Main Line, and serves the villages of Sutton-at-Hone and South Darenth in north Kent, in south east England. Train services are provided by Southeastern.

The ticket office, on the 'up' side, is situated in the substantial station building. This is manned only during part of the day; at other times a PERTIS passenger-operated ticket machine issues 'Permits to Travel' - which are exchanged on-train or at manned stations for travel tickets - and is located on the Swanley-bound platform

Farningham Road Station is 20 miles and 14 chains (33.03 km, 20.525 mi) from London Victoria, according to the mileage sign on the footbridge. The railway line was electrified as part of Southern Railway's "Maidstone & Gillingham Electrification" scheme of July 1939 ^{[1] [2]}

Services

The typical Monday to Saturday off-peak service from the station is 1 train per hour to London Victoria via Bromley South and 1 train per hour to Gillingham.

The Sunday service from the station is 1 train per hour to London Victoria via Bromley South and 1 train per hour to Canterbury East.

Crime

The station is the second most vandalised station (2005/06) according to British Transport Police ^{[3] [4]}.

The station is non-smoking, as are all of Southeastern's trains and stations. On 6 August 2008 two youths threw a woman onto the rail tracks after she had asked them to stop smoking ^[5]. Despite CCTV coverage of the station, police initially struggled to identify the assailants; ^[6] however after further analysis two suspect were arrested almost a week later ^[7]. One was released without charge, while another was charged with Grievous bodily harm ^[8] and is now in court ^[9].

References

External links

• Kent Rail's page on Farningham Road