Ramsgate railway station

Ramsgate
Location
Place	Ramsgate
Local authority	Thanet
Operations
Station code	RAM
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms in use	4
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.799 million
2005/06 *	0.859 million
2006/07 *	0.937 million
2007/08 *	1.014 million
History
Opened 2 July 1926 (2 July 1926)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ramsgate from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Ramsgate railway station serves the town of Ramsgate in Thanet in Kent, England. The station lies on the Chatham Main Line 127 km (79¼ miles) east of London Victoria, Kent Coast Line and the Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line. Train services are provided by Southeastern.

Architecture

Ramsgate railway station is "possibly the finest New Classical railway station in southern England"^[1]. It was built between 1924-1926 by Edwin Maxwell Fry and is a Grade II listed building.

Facilities

• Waiting rooms
• Toilets
• Cafe
• Ticket office (2 windows)
• Ticket machine

Services

Trains from the station run to London Charing Cross, London Victoria and London St Pancras

A typical off peak service:

• 1 tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross via Canterbury West, Ashford and Tonbridge
• 1 tph to London Charing Cross via Dover Priory, Ashford and Tonbridge
• 1 tph to London St Pancras via Canterbury West
• 2 tph to London Victoria via Faversham and the Medway Towns
• 1 tph to Margate

Ramsgate railway station from the Newington Road bridge

A 1945 Ordnance Survey of Ramsgate showing the location of the Dumpton Park and Ramsgate stations

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

1. ^ Ramsgate Station at Historic Railway Buildings

External links

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

Coordinates: 51°20′27.58″N 1°24′21.92″E / 51.3409944°N 1.4060889°E / 51.3409944; 1.4060889