Martin Mill railway station

Coordinates: 51°10′16″N 1°20′53″E / 51.171°N 1.348°E / 51.171; 1.348
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Martin Mill
Dover
England
Grid referenceTR341466
Managed bySoutheastern
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeMTM
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened15 June 1881
Original companyDover and Deal Joint Railway
Pre-groupingDover and Deal Joint Railway
Post-groupingSouthern Railway
Passengers
2018/19Increase 63,248
2019/20Increase 70,648
2020/21Decrease 19,956
2021/22Increase 37,658
2022/23Increase 45,894
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Martin Mill railway station serves the small village of Martin Mill in East Kent. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. The booking office is open only on weekday mornings however a ticket machine (card only) on the Dover-bound platform caters for out-of-hours ticketing. For many years the ticket office acted as a Post Office for the local community.

Services

All services at Martin Mill are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 and 395 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]

Additional services, including trains to and from London Charing Cross via Tonbridge call at the station during the peak hours.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Kent Coast Line

History

The station was opened on 15 June 1881 by the Dover and Deal Joint Railway when it opened the line from an end-on connection at Deal to Buckley Junction near Dover.[2][3] The line was the only one jointly owned by the rival South Eastern Railway and London, Chatham and Dover Railway and remained independent until the Grouping.[4] The line has been described as one of the more spectacular in southern England with Martin Mill at the apex on a 400-foot-high plateau.[5]

The station was built with two platforms either side of a double track, a signal box was located to the south with a goods yard to the south east.[6] The goods yard could handle most types of goods including live stock and it was equipped with a 10-ton crane.[7]

The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939.[8] Two camping coaches were positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1959, then three coaches in 1960 and 1961 then they were replaced by three Pullman camping coaches from 1962 to 1967.[9]

Military history

Main article: Martin Mill military railway

Martin Mill also served as an important station during both the

14 inch guns/cannons nicknamed Winnie (after Winston Churchill) and Pooh (after the fictional bear
). The military railway was also used by three railway guns, Gladiator, Sceneshifter, and Piecemaker which were WW1 railway gun carriages bearing their original gun names but carrying 13.5" naval guns. There were three curved firing spurs on the military railway designed for use by the rail guns. During the war the batteries controlled the Dover Straits, but the larger guns fired into France, mainly at the numerous German gun batteries who were shelling the Dover area from August 1940.

This line also ran down to

Dover Harbour
along a cliff road.

References

  1. ^ Table 207 National Rail timetable, December 2021
  2. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 308. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  3. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6
    .
  4. ISBN 0-7110-0024-7
    .
  5. ISBN 0-946537-77-1
    .
  6. ^ "Martin Mill station on OS 25 inch map Kent LXVIII.3 (East Langdon; St Margarets At Cliffe)". National Library of Scotland. 1898. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  7. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6
    .
  8. ISBN 1-870119-48-7
    .
  9. ISBN 1-870119-53-3
    .
  10. ISBN 0-946537-37-2
    .

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