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Dover Priory railway station is the southern terminus of the South Eastern Main Line. It is the main station serving the town of Dover, in Kent, England; the other is Kearsney, on the outskirts. It is 77 miles 26 chains (124.4 km) down the line from London Victoria. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
Dover Priory in 2007. Opened on 22 July 1861 as Dover Town (Priory) by the LCDR, [1] Dover Priory railway station became a through station on 1 November the same year, upon completion of a tunnel through the Western Heights connecting it to LCDR's new Dover Harbour Station in the Western Docks area.
The Chatham Main Line is a railway line in England that links London Victoria [1] and Dover Priory / Ramsgate, travelling via Medway (of which the town of Chatham is part, hence the name). Services to Cannon Street follow the route as far as St Mary Cray Junction where they diverge onto the South Eastern Main Line near Chislehurst.
South Eastry Station, trackbed narrowed by ploughing to south, 800 metres (870 yd); fence boundary of new housing estate to north, 200 metres (220 yd). Eastry Station. Trackbed to south, 380 metres (420 yd). Embankment to north, including junction, 400 metres (440 yd). to reservoir then hedge boundary, 250 metres (270 yd). Woodnesborough Station.
24 December 2015 - damage to the sea wall between Dover Priory and Folkestone Central led to closure of the line "until further notice", [98] later reported to be until the end of February. [99] In mid-February 2016, it was revealed that the original wooden viaduct which carried the line, and had been subsequently infilled, had rotted.
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.
2 tph to Dover Priory of which 1 continues to Ramsgate; During the peak hours, there are also services to and from London Cannon Street and there is also 1 train per day to London Victoria. Belmond transferred their Orient Express luxury train services to a new facility at Folkestone West from their original location at Folkestone Harbour. [4]
The station was opened on 25 January 1858, when the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) (then known as the East Kent Railway) opened a single line eastwards to Faversham. Two months later (29 March 1858) the link with the North Kent Line at Strood was opened; and the new railway reached Dover Priory in 1861.