Kemsley | |
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Location | |
Place | Kemsley |
Local authority | Swale |
Grid reference | TQ905660 |
Operations | |
Station code | KML |
Managed by | Southeastern |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | F2 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2011/12 | 0.136 million |
2012/13 | 0.125 million |
2013/14 | 0.129 million |
2014/15 | 0.141 million |
2015/16 | 0.146 million |
History | |
1 January 1927 | Opened |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kemsley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
Kemsley railway station is on the Sheerness Line in north Kent, England, and serves the village of Kemsley. Train services are provided by Southeastern. There are 2 platforms but no station building at this unstaffed location. Access between the two platforms is via a footbridge or the road bridge (for step-free access) to the north of the station. A PERTIS self-service ticket machine was provided on the Sittingbourne-bound platform in 2008. Services towards Swale, Queenborough and Sheerness-on-Sea depart from platform 1. Services to Sittingbourne depart from platform 2.
The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour to Sheerness-on-Sea and two trains per hour to Sittingbourne, for connections to London.
Since January 2015, Southeastern operate two direct services from Sheerness-on-Sea to London Victoria in the morning peak. These services do not stop at Sittingbourne by using the third side of a triangle junction that links the Sheerness Line to the Chatham Mainline. There are also two return services from London Victoria to Sheerness-on-Sea in the evening peak. These services are formed of Class 465s and Class 466s working in multiple.