Margate railway station

Margate
Location
Place	Margate
Local authority	Thanet
Operations
Station code	MAR
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms in use	4
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.585 million
2005/06 *	0.595 million
2006/07 *	0.660 million
2007/08 *	0.672 million
History
Opened 5 October 1863 (5 October 1863)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Margate from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Margate railway station serves the town of Margate in Thanet in Kent, England. Train services are provided by Southeastern.

Trains from the station run to London Victoria and London Charing Cross via Chatham and Bromley South, or via Ramsgate, Canterbury West or Dover Priory and Ashford International.

Architecture

Margate railway station is a grade II listed building,^[1] constructed in 1926 by Edwin Maxwell Fry^[2].

In the Media

The station was featured in Only Fools and Horses, in the 1989 episode The Jolly Boys' Outing.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 2tph (trains per hour) to London Victoria via Faversham, Chatham and Bromley South
• 1tph to London St Pancras via Canterbury West, Ashford International and Ebbsfleet International
• 2tph to Ramsgate

Since 13 December 2009 this station has been served by fast trains travelling over High Speed 1 reaching London St Pancras in 20 minutes,:^[3] compared with the off-peak service from London Charing Cross which at the beginning of 2009 takes 56 minutes.^[3] The planned off-peak service to St Pancras is two trains per hour and six arriving during the peak hours between 07:00 and 09:59.^[3]

History

Ramsgate and Margate
Margate Sands Margate West Margate East Broadstairs St Lawrence Ramsgate Town Ramsgate Harbour The arrangement inherited by Southern Railways in 1923 with the lines and stations closed in 1926 shown.

Trains first reached Ramsgate in April 1846 when the South Eastern Railway (SER) opened a line from Canterbury. It terminated at Ramsgate SER, later to be called Ramsgate Town. Later the same year the line opened across Thanet to Margate, to Margate SER, (later Margate Sands). Trains from Canterbury for Margate had to reverse at Ramsgate Town; a chord was built bypassing the station, but not often used. St Lawrence station was opened in 1864 just before this chord but closed in 1916.

The London Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) reached Margate from Herne Bay in in 1863. This called at Margate C&D (later Margate West), East Margate (later Margate East), Broadstairs and via a 1630 yd tunnel terminated at Ramsgate C&D (later Ramsgate Harbour), located near the harbour and beach.

This arrangement was inherited by Southern Railway on grouping in 1923. To simplify the arrangement in 1926 a new line was opened connecting the SER line from east of Ramsgate Town to the LCDR line just south of Broadstairs. The current Ramsgate station and a new station at Dumpton Park were built on this new line. The Ramsgate Harbour station, line through the tunnel, and the Ramsgate Town station and old SER line across to Margate Sands were all closed in July 1926. Margate East closed in 1953.

References

Coordinates: 51°23′7.04″N 1°22′19.85″E / 51.3852889°N 1.3721806°E / 51.3852889; 1.3721806

External links

• Train times and station information for Margate railway station from National Rail

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