Snodland railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in

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, England, serving the town of

Snodland Snodland is a town in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. It lies on the River Medway, between Rochester, Kent, Rochester and Maidstone, and from central London. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 10,211. History ...

which lies some way to the west. It is down the line from London Charing Cross via and is situated between and . The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by

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History

The station was built in 1856, for the South Eastern Railway. It is a Grade II

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, with two storeys: the lower floors were for the station offices and public rooms and the upper floors designed as the station master's flat. The station is located just to the north of the High Street, with a passenger footbridge and a level crossing over the railway. The former Queen's Head Hotel adjacent to the station was built to serve railway passengers: it closed in 1991 is now a residential care facility. Snodland was once equipped with a goods shed and sidings located behind platform 2 of which the remaining supports the platform 2 canopy. To the immediate north of the station a pair of goods loops, remnants of which can be seen. The late 19th century signal box alongside the station has been closed and is now a listed building. The ticket office was originally closed around 1990, and in 2007, a

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(Permit to Travel) ticket machine was installed just outside the entrance to the northbound platform. The ticket office was reopened in September 2016.

Services

All services at Snodland are operated by

using and

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to * 2 tph to via A small number of morning, mid afternoon and late evening trains continue beyond Paddock Wood to . The station is also served by two peak hour high speed services in each direction between

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and Maidstone West. On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.

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Railway stations in Kent DfT Category F2 stations Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations served by Southeastern Snodland {{Kent-railstation-stub