Pluckley railway station is on the

South Eastern Main Line The South Eastern Main Line is a major long-distance railway route in South East England, UK, one of the three main routes crossing the county of Kent, going via Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Ashford and Folkestone to Dover. The other routes are the ...

in England, serving the village of

Pluckley Pluckley is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The civil parish includes the adjacent hamlet of Pluckley Thorne. Geography The landscape of the area itself is the edge of a well-drained plain, with the lowest ...

, Kent, which is approximately to the north. It is down the line from London Charing Cross. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by

Southeastern The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ...

Facilities

The station features staggered platforms, whereby the 'up' (London-bound) platform is mostly west of the eastbound platform (on which the station buildings are situated). A footbridge links the platforms. The ticket office is manned only part-time; at other times a ticket vending machine is available.

History

The station opened with this section of the line by the South Eastern Railway on 1 December 1842, when the line was extended from to Ashford. The first train passed through the station on this date at 12.05pm to cheers from the local crowd. It was originally built to serve Pluckley Brick & Tile Works to the west of the station, and subsequently used as a freight depot for the Southwark Manure Company, transporting horse manure from London to use on Kent farms. Goods services closed on 20 September 1965, and the signal box was taken out of service on 17 December 1967. The station buildings have mostly survived unaltered from their original construction.

Services

All services at Pluckley are operated by

using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to London Charing Cross * 1 tph to via During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional hourly service between London Charing Cross and Ramsgate via and . There are also additional services to and from London Cannon Street.

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, Staplehurst=y, FCC None=y, SN None=y Railway stations in Kent DfT Category E stations Transport in the Borough of Ashford Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1842 Railway stations served by Southeastern