Margate railway station

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Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Parameter validation".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for deprecated parameters". Margate railway station serves the town of Margate in Thanet, Kent, England. It is Script error: No such module "convert". down the line from Template:Stn. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.

Trains from the station generally run to Victoria via Chatham or to London St Pancras via Ramsgate, Canterbury West and Ashford International. Peak hour trains run to St Pancras via Chatham and Gravesend and to London Cannon Street.

History

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BR Standard 2-6-2T at Margate in 1958

Template:Ramsgate and Margate RDT Trains first reached Ramsgate in April 1846 when the South Eastern Railway (SER) opened a line from Canterbury. It terminated at Ramsgate SER, later to be called Ramsgate Town.Template:Sfn Later the same year the line opened across Thanet to Margate, to Margate SER, (later Margate Sands). Trains from Canterbury for Margate had to reverse at Ramsgate Town; a chord was built bypassing the station in 1864, costing £13,707.Template:Sfn St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay railway station was opened in 1864 just before this chord but closed in 1916.Template:Sfn

The London Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR) reached Margate from Herne Bay on 5 October 1863.Template:Sfn This called at Margate LC&DR (later Margate West), East Margate (later Margate East), Broadstairs and via a Script error: No such module "convert". tunnel terminated at Ramsgate LC&DR (later Ramsgate Harbour), located near the harbour and beach.Template:Sfn[1]

This arrangement was inherited by Southern Railway on grouping in 1923. To simplify the arrangement in 1926 a new line was opened connecting the SER line from the site of St Lawrence to the LCDR line just south of Broadstairs. The current Ramsgate station and a new station at Dumpton Park were built on this new line. The Ramsgate Harbour station, line through the tunnel, and the Ramsgate Town station and old SER line across to Margate Sands were all closed in July 1926.Template:Sfn Margate West station was renamed Margate in 1926. Margate East closed on 4 May 1953.Template:Sfn

Until 1967 a service operated between Margate and Birkenhead Woodside via Ashford, Redhill, Reading, Oxford, Birmingham Snow Hill and Shrewsbury. The stock was provided on alternate days by successors to the Southern Railway and the Great Western Railway, being the Southern Region and the Western Region under British Rail. At Ashford a portion from Sandwich, Deal and Dover was attached/detached, likewise a Brighton portion at Redhill.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Architecture

The station was rebuilt in 1926 by the Southern Railway's chief assistant architect, Edwin Maxwell Fry. The building is constructed in a monumental classical style from brown brick with a stone dressing and a hipped tiled roof. The booking hall was built in a similar manner, in a distinctive ellipse shape with pendant lighting. It was Grade II listed in 1987.[2]

Cultural references

The station was featured in Only Fools and Horses, in the 1989 episode The Jolly Boys' Outing. Del Boy and Rodney discover the station is closed due to a strike, after being stuck in Margate following their coach blowing up.[3]

Services

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Platform view

All services at Margate are operated by Southeastern using Template:Brc and Template:Brc EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4]

Additional services including trains to and from Template:Stn and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Southeastern
Southeastern
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References

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External links

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