Dover Priory railway station

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Dover Priory

Dover Priory railway station, looking south

Location

Place

Dover

Local authority

Dover

Operations

Station code

DVP

Managed by

Southeastern

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.902 million

2005/06 *

0.860 million

History

Key dates

Opened 22 July 1861

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dover Priory from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Main station building.

Dover Priory railway station is the main station in Dover in Kent, with the other station being Kearsney situated on the outskirts of Dover. (see this list for the others). All train services are provided by Southeastern. It is located in the southeastern corner of the UK rail network.

1 Services
2 History
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

2tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross via Folkestone Central and Sevenoaks
2tph to London Victoria via Canterbury East and Chatham
1tph to Ramsgate via Deal

From December 2009, High Speed 1 will see Class 395 run via Folkestone and Ashford to CTRL to access Ebbsfleet, Stratford and St Pancras ^[1]. Special dispensation had to be sought to allow the service to reach Dover as the tunnels to the south are too narrow for emergency exits for rolling stock without end doors ^[2].

Preceding station		Following station
Folkestone Central	Southeastern South Eastern Main Line	Terminus
Folkestone Central	Southeastern Kent Coast Line	Martin Mill
Kearsney	Southeastern Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch	Terminus
Folkestone Central	Southeastern High Speed 1 London-Dover (not yet operational)	Terminus
Disused Railways
Kearsney	British Rail Southern Region Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch	Dover Marine
Kearsney	British Rail Southern Region Chatham Main Line - Dover Branch	Dover Harbour

[edit] History

A 1945 Ordnance Survey of Dover showing the location of Dover Priory and Dover Marine

Dover Priory opened on 22 July 1861^[3] as the temporary terminus of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR). It became a through station on 1 November 1861 with the completion of a tunnel though the Western Heights to gain access to the Western Docks area, where LCDR created the Dover Harbour station^[4]. Initially the station was known as Dover Town but was renamed in July 1863 (leading to rival SER to adopt the name for one of its Dover stations)^[5]. Southern consolidated passenger services at Priory in 1927 and modernised the station in 1932^[6]. The Chatham Main Line into Priory was electrified in 1959 as part of Stage 1 of Kent Coast Electrification, under the 1955 BR modernisation plan^[7]. The line up to Ramsgate, via Deal was subsequently electrified under stage two of Kent Coast electrification in January 1961^[8]. The line from Folkestone into Priory was electrifed in June 1961^[9].