Penshurst railway station is on the

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and is located approximately two miles north of

Penshurst Penshurst is a historic village and civil parish located in a valley upon the northern slopes of the Kentish Weald, at the confluence of the River Medway and the River Eden, within the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. The village is situ ...

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, in the village of

Chiddingstone Causeway Chiddingstone Causeway is a village west of Tonbridge in Kent, England. It is within the Sevenoaks local government district. It is in the civil parish of Chiddingstone. The village is served by Penshurst Station on the Redhill to Tonbridge Li ...

in England. It is measured from via .

History

Penshurst station was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 26 May 1842.

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, which was in operation from 1916 to 1936, and again from 1940 to 1946 as RAF Penshurst, was within ¼ mile (400 m) of the station. In 1967 the station became unstaffed following which the original station buildings were demolished. In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the to

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service. Prior to electrification a new down platform was constructed opposite the up platform. New signalling was installed when the signal box was closed. In 2007, a PERTIS (Permit to Travel) machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform (since replaced by a modern

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). The station was until December 2008 operated by

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before it transferred to Southern, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

Facilities and Connections

Penshurst station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. Tickets can be purchased from the self-service

at the station and there are passenger help points located on each platforms. There is also a basic shelter located on each platform. The station has step free access available to both platforms. The station is served Monday-Saturday by the Metrobus routes 231 & 233 buses which provide connections to Edenbridge and

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as well as the Autocar route 210 which provides connections to

Tonbridge Tonbridge ( ) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Malling, it had an estimated populat ...

Accidents and incidents

*On 28 July 1845, a light engine was in a rear-end collision with a passenger train near Penshurst. Thirty people were injured. *On 20 January 1846, a bridge over the River Medway between and Penshurst collapsed whilst a freight train was passing over it. The driver was killed.

Services

All services at Penshurst are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to * 1 tph to Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Penshurst Railway Station Buildings and structures in Sevenoaks District Railway stations in Kent DfT Category F1 stations Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1842 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway