Broadstairs railway station is on the

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in England, serving the seaside town of

Broadstairs Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St Peter's, and had a population in 2011 o ...

, 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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. Trains to London can run either way through the station, depending on the route either via Margate or .

History

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The first proposal for a station at Broadstairs was by the South Eastern Railway (SER) in November 1859, who wanted to extend their existing station at

Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. In 2011, according to the Census, there was a populati ...

towards Broadstairs at an estimated cost of £20,000. However, the scheme was refused permission by the station master at Ramsgate. Instead, the station was built by the Kent Coast Railway as part of an extension from Margate to . It opened on 5 October 1863. From the beginning, the line was operated by the

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(LCDR), who bought the Kent Coast Railway on 1 July 1871. The station was run by the Southern Railway (SR) following the

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. Having inherited lines from the LCDR and SER, the SR decided to simplify services by constructing a new line linking Broadstairs directly to the current Ramsgate station, thus joining the stations together and forming a loop along Kent. This opened on 2 July 1926. Electric services began at Broadstairs on 15 June 1959. Goods services were withdrawn from the station on 3 June 1963. A high-speed service to

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began on 13 December 2009.

Incidents

In 2015, a woman was killed by a train at the station.

Services

All services at Broadstairs are operated by

using and

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to London St Pancras International via and * 1 tph to London St Pancras International via and * 1 tph to via Chatham * 1 tph to * 2 tph to Additional services including trains to and from and

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call at the station in the peak hours.

References

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