Trains to Appledore (Kent) - Station Details and further Information on Appledore (Kent) Train Services
Appledore train station lies well to the east of Appledore in Kent. It is on the Marshlink Line, and train services are provided by Southern. The station is located almost two miles from Appledore village and 8.5 miles south of Ashford. Trains run once every sixty minutes during the day in each direction, north to Ashford and south to Hastings and beyond to/from Brighton via Lewes and Eastbourne.
It is at a junction of a freight branch line running to Dungeness nuclear power station via Lydd. Appledore is also the start of the single track section of the Marshlink line, which runs through to Ore near Hastings with a passing loop at Rye.
There are no ticketing facilities at Appledore, although APTIS was once provided here until the booking office closed in the very early 1990s. The office buildings on the Ashford-bound platform are derelict.
It is one of just a few stations in Kent not to be served by Southeastern. Southern's diesel route to Uckfield and the Marshlink line serve a small number of stations in the County, to be joined from 14/12/08 by Leigh, Penshurst and Edenbridge on the electrified Redhill/Tonbridge route.
Trains serving the station are Southern diesels, used on the non-electrified Ashford/Rye/ Hastings route. A rail track engineering company occupies the yard just south of the station. |
