Marden railway station

Marden
Marden station
Location
Place	Marden
Local authority	Borough of Maidstone
Coordinates	51°10′30″N 0°29′35″E / 51.175°N 0.493°ECoordinates: 51°10′30″N 0°29′35″E / 51.175°N 0.493°E
Grid reference	TQ743447
Operations
Station code	MRN
Managed by	Southeastern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.226 million
2005/06	0.237 million
2006/07	0.233 million
2007/08	0.273 million
2008/09	0.279 million
2009/10	0.284 million
2010/11	0.357 million
2011/12	0.400 million
2012/13	0.443 million
2013/14	0.459 million
2014/15	0.480 million
History
31 August 1842	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Marden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Marden, 1951
Legend to Paddock Wood Pattenden Lane (single slip) B2079 to Maidstone To Staplehurst Legend Running line Sidings

Marden railway station is located in Marden, Kent, England which lies in the Maidstone Borough Council administrative area. Southeastern is responsible for the station, and all trains serving it.

The ticket office, staffed for part of the day, is located in a modern building on London-bound platform 1. A PERTIS permit-to-travel ticket machine used to be located by the ticket office/platform entrance, but as of late 2015 there is a customer self-service ticket machine.

Accidents and incidents

• At 20:42 on 4 January 1969 there was a collision between a down electric passenger train (formed of 2 x 4CEP units) and a down parcels train to the west of Marden station. Four people were killed. The cause was the driver of the passenger train missing a signal in fog and passing it at danger. Local farmer David Winch of Brook Farm, along with his employees, worked for fourteen hours assisting in the rescue operation. They used their tractors and trailers to ferry the injured across muddy fields from the crash site to waiting ambulances. The ambulance officer in charge at the time, Stanley Skinner, was awarded a BEM in recognition of his role.^[1][2]
• At 17:56 on 5 September 2012, an up passenger train caught fire at Marden.^[3]

Services

As of May 2010 typical off peak services from this station are:

• 2tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross
• 1tph to Dover Priory and Canterbury West (dividing at Ashford International)
• 1tph to Ramsgate via Dover and Canterbury, dividing at Ashford^[4]

References

1. Glover, John (2001). Southern Electric. Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan. pp. 137–38. ISBN 0-7110-2807-9.
2. Marden History
3. "Marden train evacuated after wheel bearings catch fire". BBC News Online. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
4. Network Rail Timetable May 2010: Table 207

External links

Media related to Marden railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Eyewitness account of the 1969 train crash.
• Signal box diagram, 1951
• Marden on navigable 1940 OS map