Adisham railway station is on the

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branch of the

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in England, and serves the village of

Adisham Adisham (formerly Adesham) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Kent. It is twinned with Campagne-lès-Hesdin in France. Geography The village centre, six miles south-east of Canterbury is on the B2046 road between Wingham a ...

, Kent. It is down the line from and is situated between and . The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by

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. There are brick buildings on the country-bound platform, formerly in railway use but now privately occupied, and a wooden shelter on the London-bound platform. The country-bound platform is accessible by road and the London-bound by public footpath. There is a connecting footbridge. The station is unstaffed. There is a help point on each platform, electronic departure boards were added in May 2016 and a ticket machine (accepting credit/debit cards) in October the same year.

History

The station and the line it serves were built by the

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, and opened on 22 July 1861, becoming part of the Southern Railway during the

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of 1923. The line then passed on to the

Southern Region of British Railways The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s. The region covered south London, southern England and the sout ...

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in 1948 until the

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ways. When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by

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Services

All services at Adisham are operated by

using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to During the peak hours, the service is increased to 2 tph.

References

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External links

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Station on navigable O.S. map
City of Canterbury Railway stations in Kent DfT Category F2 stations Former London, Chatham and Dover Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1861 Railway stations served by Southeastern 1861 establishments in England {{Kent-railstation-stub