Ramsgate railway station

Ramsgate
General information
Location	Ramsgate, District of Thanet England
Grid reference	TR371657
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	RAM
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	2 July 1926
Passengers
2018/19	1.380 million
Interchange	86,077
2019/20	1.330 million
Interchange	77,482
2020/21	0.417 million
Interchange	22,090
2021/22	1.007 million
Interchange	60,432
2022/23	1.152 million
Interchange	133,508
Listed Building – Grade II
Feature	Ramsgate Station
Designated	4 February 1988 (amended 11 July 2000)
Reference no.	1086060[1]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ramsgate railway station serves the town of

All services at Ramsgate are operated by Southeastern using Class 375, 377 and 395 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[3]

• 1 tph to London St Pancras International via Canterbury West
• 1 tph to London St Pancras International via Dover Priory and Folkestone Central
• 1 tph to London St Pancras International via
  Chatham and Gravesend
• 1 tph to London Victoria via Chatham
• 1 tph to London Charing Cross via Canterbury West and Tonbridge
• 1 tph to Margate

During the peak hours, the station is also served by trains to London Charing Cross and London Cannon Street via Tonbridge.

The station's facilities include waiting rooms, toilets, cafe, a ticket office (2 windows) and a ticket machine.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Terminus		Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Ramsgate Branch		Dumpton Park
Kent Coast Line		Terminus
Minster Limited Service
Thanet Parkway			Southeastern Ashford to Ramsgate Line
Canterbury West		Southeastern High Speed 1		Broadstairs

History

v t e Ramsgate and Margate
Legend
Margate Sands Margate West London Victoria Line closed north and south of Margate Sands Goods in 1926. Margate Sands Goods Margate East Tivoli Broadstairs To Dover Dumpton Park St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay Ramsgate Ramsgate Town Ramsgate Harbour
The arrangement inherited by the Southern Railway in 1923 with the lines and stations closed in 1926 shown in pink (Tivoli had closed c.1867 and St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay had closed in 1916). The dotted line represent the new surface lines and stations. Ramsgate and Dumpton Park both opened in 1926. Margate Sands Goods closed in 1972. The diagram shows the position as of 1926.

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, which, unlike the present-day station, was in the town centre. Later the same year the line opened across Thanet to Margate, to Margate SER (later Margate Sands). Trains from Canterbury to Margate had to reverse at Ramsgate Town; a chord was built bypassing the station, but not often used. St Lawrence station was opened in 1864 just before this chord, but closed in 1916.

The

The depot (51°20′32″N 1°24′06″E / 51.3421°N 1.4018°E / 51.3421; 1.4018 (Ramsgate depot)) was modernised in 2007^[5] and opened in late 2008.^[6]

Connections

The station is situated in the northern Ramsgate parish of St Lawrence, a 10-minute walk away from Ramsgate town centre. The "Loop" bus service operated by Stagecoach South East connects the station with Ramsgate town centre and nearby Thanet settlements, including those not served by rail such as Westwood.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ramsgate railway station.

• Train times and station information for Ramsgate railway station from National Rail
• Glasspool, David. Ramsgate – history of Ramsgate station and railway
• Glasspool, David. Ramsgate MPD – history of Ramsgate rolling stock depot
• Glasspool, David. Ramsgate Maintenance Depot – post 2007 depot description

51°20′27″N 1°24′22″E / 51.3408°N 1.4060°E / 51.3408; 1.4060