Shoreham railway station serves Shoreham in

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. It is down the line from and is situated between and . Train services are provided by

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History

Shoreham Station was opened by the

London, Chatham and Dover Railway The London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR or LC&DR) was a railway company in south-eastern England created on 1 August 1859, when the East Kent Railway was given parliamentary approval to change its name. Its lines ran through London and nor ...

on 2 June 1862, the same day as the

Swanley Swanley is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, southeast of central London, adjacent to the Greater London boundary and within the M25 motorway periphery. The population at the 2011 census was 16,226. History I ...

to Sevenoaks Bat & Ball opened. The line was initially single track - the second track opened in 1863. The line through Shoreham between and was electrified in 1935 and electric services began calling at Shoreham in the same year. The ticket office here was closed in 1992, having been staffed only during part of the day; these days, a

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passenger-operated ticket machine issues 'Permits to Travel' - which are exchanged on-train or at staffed stations for travel tickets - and is located on the Ashford-bound platform. This has since been replaced by a modern ticket machine. The platforms are connected by a concrete footbridge - a typical product of the Southern Railway concrete factory at

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Facilities

There are shelters with benches on both platforms as well as a ticket machine and modern help point. There is step free access to the Sevenoaks bound platform but the London bound platform is only accessible via the stepped footbridge. There is a small (free) car park at the station entrance. The station is unstaffed.

Services

All services at Shoreham are operated by

using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to London Blackfriars via * 2 tph to During the peak hours, the service to London Blackfriars is extended to and from via .

Connections

The station is served on Monday-Saturday by the route 2 bus to

and

Sevenoaks Sevenoaks is a town in Kent with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London, England. Also classified as a civil parishes in England, civil parish, Sevenoaks is served by a commuter South Eastern Main Line, main line railway into Lon ...

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