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Bearsted railway station serves Bearsted in Kent, England. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. It is 42 miles 59 chains (68.8 km) down the line from London Victoria via Herne Hill.[4]

Bearsted
General information
Location	Bearsted, Maidstone (borough) England
Grid reference	TQ798561
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BSD
Classification	DfT category D
Key dates
1 July 1884	Opened as Bearsted
1 July 1907	Renamed Bearsted & Thurnham[1][2]
12 May 1980	Renamed Bearsted[3]
Passengers
2016/17	0.391 million
2017/18	0.386 million
2018/19	0.392 million
2019/20	0.380 million
2020/21	76,660
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Inside the station building are a manned and self-service ticket sales and a café. A new footbridge was built on the opposite side of the station from the original in 2011.

History

Bearsted station opened on 1 July 1884 as part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway's extension of the line from Maidstone to Ashford West.[5] The goods yard was on the up side. It comprised three sidings, one of which served a goods shed.[6] A 30 cwt-capacity crane was provided.[7] Freight facilities were withdrawn on 7 October 1968. The signal box closed on 14 April 1984.[8] A refuge siding was located on the down side.[7]

Services

Current Services

All services at Bearsted are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 and 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[9]

• 1 tph to London Victoria
• 1 tph to Ramsgate via Ashford International and Canterbury West

During the peak hours and on Saturdays, the station is served by an additional hourly service between London Victoria and Ashford International, increasing the service to 2 tph in each direction. There are also a small number of services to and from London Blackfriars.

Future Services

In December 2019, it was planned that a new Thameslink service between Maidstone East and Cambridge service would start with the first and last trains extended to Ashford International and therefore calling at Bearsted. However the introduction of this service has now been postponed to an unknown date.[10]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Maidstone East		Southeastern Maidstone East Line		Hollingbourne
				Ashford International

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V .J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1995). Swanley to Ashford. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1 873793 45 6.
• Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.

External links

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

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