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Margate railway station serves the town of
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 in 1864, costing £13,707. St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay railway station was opened in 1864 just before this chord but closed in 1916.
The London Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR) reached Margate from Herne Bay on 5 October 1863. This called at Margate LC&DR (later Margate West), East Margate (later Margate East), Broadstairs and via a tunnel terminated at Ramsgate LC&DR (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 the site of St Lawrence 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 West station was renamed Margate in 1926. Margate East closed on 4 May 1953.
Until 1967 a service operated between Margate and
All services at Margate are operated by Southeastern using and
Margate
Margate is a seaside resort, seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is located on the north coast of Kent and covers an area of long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay, UK, Palm Bay and W ...
in Thanet Thanet may refer to:
* Isle of Thanet, a former island, now a peninsula, at the most easterly point of Kent, England
* Thanet District, a local government district containing the island
*Thanet College, former name of East Kent College
* Thanet Ca ...
, Kent
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, England. It is down the line from . The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
Trains from the station generally run to Victoria via or to via Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a seaside resort, seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet District, Thanet in eastern Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2021 it had a population of 42,027. Ramsgate' ...
, Canterbury West and Ashford International. Peak hour trains run to St Pancras via Chatham and Gravesend and to .
History
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 in 1864, costing £13,707. St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay railway station was opened in 1864 just before this chord but closed in 1916.
The London Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR) reached Margate from Herne Bay on 5 October 1863. This called at Margate LC&DR (later Margate West), East Margate (later Margate East), Broadstairs and via a tunnel terminated at Ramsgate LC&DR (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 the site of St Lawrence 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 West station was renamed Margate in 1926. Margate East closed on 4 May 1953.
Until 1967 a service operated between Margate and Birkenhead Woodside
Birkenhead Woodside was a railway station located at Woodside, in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire. It served both local services within Cheshire and long-distance services to southern England, including London.
Background
Birke ...
via Ashford, Redhill, Reading
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For educators and researchers, reading is a multifacete ...
, Oxford
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The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...
, Birmingham Snow Hill and Shrewsbury
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. The stock was provided on alternate days by successors to the Southern Railway and the Great Western Railway
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, being the Southern Region and the Western Region under British Rail
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. At Ashford a portion from Sandwich
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, Deal
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and Dover
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was attached/detached, likewise a Brighton
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Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
portion at Redhill.
Architecture
The station was rebuilt in 1926 by the Southern Railway's chief assistant architect, Edwin Maxwell Fry. The building is constructed in a monumental classical style from brown brick with a stone dressing and a hipped tiled roof. The booking hall was built in a similar manner, in a distinctive ellipse shape with pendant lighting. It wasGrade II listed
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in 1987.
Cultural references
The station was featured in ''Only Fools and Horses
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'', in the 1989 episode ''The Jolly Boys' Outing
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''. Del Boy and Rodney discover the station is closed due to a strike, after being stuck in Margate following their coach blowing up.
Services
All services at Margate are operated by Southeastern using and EMUs
Emus may refer to:
* Emu
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.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
* 1 tph to London St Pancras International via and
* 1 tph to London St Pancras International via and
* 1 tph to via Chatham
* 2 tph to
Additional services including trains to and from and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.
References
Citations Sources * *External links
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