Teynham railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the village of

Teynham Teynham ( ) is a large village and civil parish in the borough of Swale in Kent, England. The parish lies between the towns of Sittingbourne and Faversham, immediately north of the A2 road, and includes the hamlet of Conyer on an inlet of the ...

, Kent. It is down the line from and is situated between and . The station and all trains that call 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 ...

. On the London-bound platform, there is a staffed booking office which is open only at certain times, as well as a passenger-operated self-service ticket machine issuing permits to travel.

History

The section of the

East Kent Railway The East Kent Railway (EKR) was an early railway operating between Strood and Faversham in Kent, England, during 1858 and 1859. In the latter year it changed its name to the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to reflect its ambitions to build a ...

between and opened on 25 January 1858, and Teynham station opened with the line. The original two-storey brick built station was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by the prefabricated buildings popular at the time. A manually operated crossing to allow access to Station Row to the north of the line was finally replaced with automatic gates during the upgrading of signalling in December 2011.

Accidents and incidents

*In December 1861, a passenger train was derailed due to elongation of the gap at a rail joint during cold weather.

Services

All services at Teynham are operated by

using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to * 1 tph to via Additional services including trains to and from and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.

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Railway stations in Swale DfT Category E stations Former London, Chatham and Dover Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858 Railway stations served by Southeastern {{Kent-railstation-stub