Longfield railway station

Longfield
Location
Place	Longfield
Local authority	Borough of Dartford
Grid reference	TQ601688
Operations
Station code	LGF
Managed by	Southeastern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.467 million
2005/06	0.468 million
2006/07	0.483 million
2007/08	0.520 million
2008/09	0.512 million
2009/10	0.465 million
2010/11	0.475 million
2011/12	0.501 million
2012/13	0.532 million
History
Key dates	Opened June 1872
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Longfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Longfield railway station is on the Chatham Main Line, and serves the villages of Longfield and Hartley in north Kent, England. Train services are provided by Southeastern.

History

Although situated in Longfield, the station opened as Fawkham station in June 1872. The name of a nearby village was chosen as a local land owner had offered land and cash for provision of a station.

The original station was destroyed by fire around 1900, but rebuilt in the same location. The railway line through Fawkham station was electrified in 1939 with electric trains operating between Victoria and Gillingham. Steam trains continued to pass through the station on their way to/from the Kent Coast until June 1959 when those services were then also turned over to electric operation.

With the start of summer timetable in 1961, the true location of the station was recognised when it was renamed 'Longfield for Fawkham & Hartley' from 12 June. By the end of the 1960s the cumbersome appendences were dropped in favour of plain Longfield, although the longer name survived on some signs and tickets well into the next decade.

The station building built following the fire of 1900 was demolished in 1971 and replaced by the contemporary CLASP prefabricated design favoured by British Rail.^[1]

Usage of the station has grown considerably in the last thirty years, as it rests within a large catchment area of residential development. The frequency of services and journey times to and from London also attracts commuters away from the slower North Kent Line services provided at Gravesend, Northfleet and Swanscombe stations.

Service

The typical Monday to Saturday off-peak service is 3 trains per hour to London Victoria, 2 trains per hour to Dover Priory and 1 trains per hour to Ramsgate.

The Sunday service from the station is 1 train per hour to London Victoria via Bromley South and 1 train per hour to Canterbury East.

References

1. "Longfield". Kent Rail website. David Glasspool. 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

External links

• Train times and station information for Longfield railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 51°23′45.87″N 0°18′1.76″E / 51.3960750°N 0.3004889°E