Canterbury East railway station

Canterbury East
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Location
Place	Canterbury
Local authority	City of Canterbury
Grid reference	TR146572
Operations
Station code	CBE
Managed by	Southeastern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	C1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.410 million
2005/06	0.429 million
2006/07	1.640 million
2007/08	1.632 million
2008/09	1.603 million
2009/10	1.331 million
2010/11	1.158 million
2011/12	1.175 million
- Interchange	22,550
2012/13	1.044 million
- Interchange	15,832
2013/14	0.946 million
- Interchange	15,976
History
Key dates	Opened 9 July 1860 (9 July 1860)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Canterbury East from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Canterbury East railway station is one of two stations in Canterbury in Kent, England. It is south-southwest of the city centre and is served by Southeastern.

The station and its line were built by London, Chatham and Dover Railway, while Canterbury West was built by South Eastern Railway.

Although called Canterbury East the station is about due south of Canterbury West station, and only about to its east.

The framework of the platform canopies were originally installed at the never-opened station at Lullingstone.

The semaphore signals at the station were replaced with coloured lights in December 2011. The elevated signal box remains but is no longer in use, with signalling on the line operated from a control room at Gillingham. The signal box has now been given Grade II listed building status.

Canterbury East did have ticket barriers but they were removed in early 2011, as they were the only ones of the kind in the country and spare parts were no longer easy to get. Coventry and Earlsfield are the only other stations to lose their ticket barriers.

Services

The typical Monday to Saturday off-peak service from the station is:

• 2tph (trains per hour) to Dover Priory (of which 1 train calls at all stations and 1 is fast to Dover Priory)
• 2tph to London Victoria via Faversham and Chatham (of which 1 train calls at Selling and 1 is fast to Faversham)

The typical Sunday service from the station is:

• 1tph to Dover Priory calling at all stations
• 2tph to London Victoria via Faversham and Chatham (of which 1 train is fast between Rochester and Bromley South and 1 train calls at all stops between Faversham and St Mary Cray)

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Selling		Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch		Bekesbourne

Gallery

• Canterbury East Signal Box.JPG

  Canterbury East Signal Box

• Canterbury East Platform View 1.jpg

  View in the direction of trains towards London

• Canterbury East Platform View 2.jpg

  View in the direction of trains towards Dover

• Canterbury East railway station platforms.JPG

  Station platforms in 2012

Fictional reference

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Final Problem, a short story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson hide from Professor Moriarty at a station in Canterbury. The station is unspecified but is likely to have been Canterbury East as Holmes and Watson were making their way to catch a boat on the Continental Express from London Victoria station.

See also

• Canterbury West railway station

External links

• Train times and station information for Canterbury East railway station from National Rail