Kemsley railway station

Not to be confused with Kemsley Down railway station on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway.

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
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.119 million
2005/06	0.125 million
2006/07	0.138 million
2007/08	0.155 million
2008/09	0.158 million
2009/10	0.147 million
2010/11	0.145 million
2011/12	0.136 million
2012/13	0.125 million
2013/14	0.129 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.
UK Railways portal

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.

Services

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 has operated 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 be formed of Class 465s and Class 466s working in multiple.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Sittingbourne		Southeastern Sheerness Line		Swale
Newington Limited Service

Map of the Kemsley Railway Station in relation to other local stations and the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway. The Chatham Main Line runs along the bottom, east to west, while the Sheerness Line branches off northwards, west of Sittingbourne