Hever railway station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves Hever in Kent. It is 27 miles 27 chains (27.34 miles, 44.00 km) from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern.
Hever | |
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General information | |
Location | Hever, District of Sevenoaks England |
Grid reference | TQ465445 |
Managed by | Southern |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | HEV |
Classification | DfT category F2 |
History | |
Opened | 1 October 1888 |
Passengers | |
2016/17 | 35,800 |
2017/18 | 42,948 |
2018/19 | 45,854 |
2019/20 | 50,654 |
2020/21 | 11,154 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Hever Castle is about a 1 mile (1.6 km) walk from the station.
The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 1 October 1888. It passed onto the Southern Railway in 1923 and to British Railways in 1948. The signal box was built into the station building and remained in use until the line was resignalled in January 1990 when the station was destaffed.
Hever station is unstaffed and tickets must be bought from the self-service ticket machine at the station.
The station has passenger help points and covered seating areas available on both platforms. The station has a small cycle rack located on the Uckfield bound platform.
The Uckfield bound platform is accessible without steps however the London bound platform is only reachable by the stepped footbridge so isn't accessible.[1]
All services at Hever are operated by Southern using Class 171 DMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]
Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.
On Sundays, the northbound service runs as far as Oxted only.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Southern Oxted Line Uckfield Branch |
Railway stations in Kent | |||
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London Charing Cross to Gillingham |
Other alternative routes from London to Dartford via Sidcup and via Bexleyheath. | ||
London Victoria to Ramsgate via Chatham | |||
London Victoria to Dover via Chatham | |||
London Victoria to Ashford via Maidstone East |
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London St Pancras to Paris & Brussels High Speed 1 |
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London Charing Cross to Dover via Tonbridge | |||
London Charing Cross to Hastings | |||
London Bridge to Uckfield | |||
Ashford to Ramsgate via Canterbury West |
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Dover to Margate |
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Redhill–Tonbridge | |||
Sittingbourne to Sheerness-on-Sea | |||
Ashford to St Leonards Marshlink |
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Strood to Paddock Wood Medway Valley Line | |||
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East Kent Railway |
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Kent & East Sussex Railway | |||
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway | |||
Spa Valley Railway |
Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes | |||||
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Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only. | |||||
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