Wye Railway Station
History
The first plan for a station near Wye was in 1812, when John Rennie the Elder proposed building a canal to connect the River Medway in North Kent with the River Rother in East Sussex. A tramway would connect Wye to the canal. The proposal was abandoned in favour of through railways.
The station was opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1846, along with the rest of the line from Ashford to Canterbury West. It was a constructed next to a level crossing with the main road, on the grounds that Parliament believed trains would not be frequent. A crane for goods traffic was installed in 1852. The station began serving local gravel goods traffic in 1919. Freight facilities were closed on 10 June 1963.
Racecourse station
On the opposite side of the level crossing a separate station was opened in March 1882 to serve the racecourse. It was closed in May 1974 (with the last horse racing meeting) and subsequently demolished.
Facilities
The platforms were connected by a concrete footbridge in 1960. This was replaced with a 12.5-metre (41 ft) steel footbridge in 2015. The staffed level crossing at the south end of the station required manual operation of the gates and was formerly a local traffic bottleneck but was replaced with automated crossing gates in December 2022.
The station is staffed for part of the day. There is a passenger-operated ticket machine located on the Ashford-bound platform, by the footbridge.
The station buildings on the Ashford-bound platform contain the booking office. There is a shelter on the Canterbury-bound platform.
Services
All services at Wye are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 1 tph to London Charing Cross via Tonbridge
- 1 tph to Ramsgate
Additional services, including trains to and from London Cannon Street and London St Pancras International call at the station during the peak hours.
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References
Citations
- ^ Gray 1990, p. 6.
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 256.
- ^ McCarthy & McCarthy 2007, p. 53.
- ^ Gray 1990, p. 244.
- ^ Gray 1990, p. 248.
- ^ Gray 1998, p. 125.
- ^ McCarthy & McCarthy 2007, p. 128.
- ^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 486
- ^ "Wye Station Footbridge". Nusteel Structures. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Wye level crossing closure to cause diversions and traffic in Ashford". Kent Online. 21 February 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ Castle, Liane (3 January 2023). "Villagers welcome new automated level crossings in Wye and Chartham as traffic reduced". Kent Online. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "Wye". SouthEastern. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Wye". National Rail. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ Table 197, 207 National Rail timetable, December 2023
Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Gray, Adrian (1990). South Eastern Railway. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-85-7.
- Gray, Adrian (1998). South Eastern and Chatham Railway. Middleton Press. ISBN 1-901706-08-7.
- McCarthy, Colin; McCarthy, David (2007). Railway of Britain : Kent and Sussex. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-3222-4.
External links
- Train times and station information for Wye railway station from National Rail