Swanley railway station

Swanley
Location
Place	Swanley
Local authority	District of Sevenoaks
Coordinates
Grid reference	TQ509682
Operations
Station code	SAY
Managed by	Southeastern
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	C2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	1.291 million
2005/06	1.278 million
2006/07	1.329 million
2007/08	1.350 million
2008/09	1.314 million
2009/10	1.246 million
2010/11	1.203 million
2011/12	1.211 million
- Interchange	0.132 million
2012/13	1.197 million
- Interchange	0.132 million
2013/14	1.224 million
- Interchange	0.163 million
History
1 July 1862	Opened (Sevenoaks Junction)
1 January 1871	Renamed (Swanley Junction)
16 April 1939	Resited 420m west and renamed (Swanley)
1959	Rebuilt
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Swanley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Swanley railway station is a station in Swanley, Kent. The station is managed by Southeastern. The station has four platforms, platforms 1 and 3 being for services to Central London via Bromley South, platform 2 for services to Sevenoaks and Ashford International and platform 4 for Gillingham.

Swanley Station is 17.4 miles (28.0 km) from London Victoria.

History

The original location of the station was at grid reference TQ513684 at the junction with separate platforms for the main line and the Sevenoaks branch. It was first named Sevenoaks Junction and 1871 was changed to Swanley Junction. On 27 June 1937, there was a collision between two trains near the station, resulting in the deaths of four people and with 37 injured. In 1939 a new station called Swanley was constructed approximately 440 yards (400 m) further west and the original station was closed. The present station was rebuilt in 1959 when the line was widened to four tracks.

Location

The station is located at Station Approach, almost 1 mile (1.6 km) away from Swanley Town Centre.

Buses

Swanley station is served by the following routes.

• 429 to Dartford via Joydens Wood (with limited services to Crockenhill, and Sunday services to Bluewater and to Eynsford)
• 477 to Bluewater via Hextable and to Orpington via Crockenhill
• 478 to West Kingsdown

Services

Services are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink.

The 2015 typical off-peak train service is:

• 3tph to London Victoria via Bromley South
• 2tph to West Hampstead Thameslink via Catford
• 2tph to Sevenoaks via Bat & Ball
• 1tph to Ashford International via Maidstone East
• 1tph to Canterbury West via Maidstone East
• 1tph to Dover Priory via Chatham

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
St Mary Cray		Southeastern Chatham Main Line		Farningham Road
		Southeastern Maidstone East Line		Eynsford
		Thameslink Sevenoaks Line		Eynsford

External links

• Train times and station information for Swanley railway station from National Rail
• Page at SouthernRailway.net with photo taken in 1959 during reconstruction of Swanley station