Dumpton Park railway station
General information | |
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Location | Dumpton, District of Thanet England |
Grid reference | TR386663 |
Managed by | Southeastern |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | DMP |
Classification | DfT category F2 |
History | |
Opened | 19 July 1926 |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 27,398 |
2019/20 | 25,760 |
2020/21 | 8,360 |
2021/22 | 23,252 |
2022/23 | 23,618 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Dumpton Park railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the district of Dumpton between the towns of Broadstairs and Ramsgate, Kent. It is 78 miles 26 chains (126.1 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Broadstairs and Ramsgate stations.
The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.
The station has no buildings and just a few parking spaces, a bridge from the south side of the line to an island platform, with a small shelter at the bottom of the steps. Until 1965 the station served as the interchange between the main line and the nearby Tunnel Railway.
History
Following the
The new link opened on 2 July 1926, although Dumpton Park station was not fully open to the public until 19 July 1926. On 2 July 1926, both former Ramsgate stations were closed along with the line through the tunnel to Ramsgate Harbour. The tunnel was sealed and abandoned, and the former Ramsgate Harbour station was sold to Thanet Amusements, which converted the site into a
By 1933, Merrie England, then owned by Ramsgate Olympia, had become extremely popular, and began to lobby the Southern Railway to reopen the line through the tunnel, with a new junction station between Dumpton Park and Broadstairs.
When Dumpton Park Station was first built there was a booking hall at street level, a smaller version of the one currently at Broadstairs station, and the bridge and steps were covered by overhead glass plus a lift to platform level. Glass covering continuing down the steps to The ticket office window and station building , which included waiting room, small office and the toilet block was a separate building just down but adjoined by a overhead glass covering with benches underneath.the platform The building has since been demolished and the covering removed, in the early to mid 1980s. Years ago there was a signal box at the end of the platform (northbound end).[citation needed]
Services
All services at Dumpton Park are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[10]
- 1 tph to Chatham
- 1 tph to Ramsgate
Additional services including trains to and from London Bridge and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Southeastern |
Notes and references
- ^ Mitchell and Smith, § 104
- ^ Harding, p. 6
- ^ Mitchell and Smith, § 105
- ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ Harding, p. 7
- ^ a b "Round the World in Five Minutes! On Ramsgate's underground railway". East Kent Times. Ramsgate. 13 June 1936.
- ^ a b Harding, p. 8
- ^ "Ramsgate's New Underground Railway". East Kent Times. Ramsgate. 5 August 1936.
- ^ The new Dumpton Park station and Broadstairs station were less than a mile apart; a junction station between the two would have meant trains stopping three times within a mile, causing delays and tailbacks, while running trains from the harbour to Dumpton Park or Broadstairs would have caused severe line congestion.
- ^ Table 212 National Rail timetable, December 2021
Bibliography
- Harding, Peter A. (2005). The Ramsgate Tunnel Railway. Woking: Peter A. Harding. ISBN 0-9523458-9-7.
- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1991). Sittingbourne to Ramsgate. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-90-8.
External links
- Train times and station information for Dumpton Park railway station from National Rail