High Brooms railway station

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High Brooms

Location

Place

Tunbridge Wells

Local authority

Tunbridge Wells

Operations

Station code

HIB

Managed by

Southeastern

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

1.438 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1893

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

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High Brooms railway station is on the Hastings Line and serves High Brooms, a suburb on the northern side of Tunbridge Wells in Kent. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.

High Brooms was originally opened in 1893 as Southborough by the South Eastern Railway; it acquired its present name in 1925. It is situated on a five-mile gradient from the north of the station.^[1] The main station buildings are on the northbound platform. There is a closed waiting room on the southbound platform. Access to the southbound platform is via stairs from a side entrance, and access to the northbound platform is at street level. A subway links the two platforms.

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[edit] Services

The typical services from this station are:

2 trains per hour (tph) to Charing Cross
2 tph to Hastings (one semi-fast, one slow)
4 tph to Tunbridge Wells
1 tph to Horsham (via Redhill)
1 tph to London Bridge (also via Redhill)

There are also some additional services to and from Cannon Street.

Preceding station		Following station
Tonbridge	Southeastern Hastings Line Fast from London, semi fast to Hastings/Ore	Tunbridge Wells
	Southeastern Hastings Line fast from London, stopping to Hastings/Ore	Tunbridge Wells
	Southeastern London Bridge to Tunbridge Wells via Redhill and East Croydon	Tunbridge Wells
Tonbridge	Southeastern London to Tunbridge Wells Stopping services viaSevenoaks	Tunbridge Wells
Tonbridge	Southeastern Horsham to Tunbridge Wells (via Gatwick and Redhill)	Tunbridge Wells
Disused Railways
Tonbridge	British Rail Southern Region Cuckoo Line	Tunbridge Wells
Tonbridge	British Rail Southern Region Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line	Tunbridge Wells