Dover Priory Railway Station

Dover Priory
	Dover Railway Station, looking north
Data
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	3
abbreviation	DVP
Price range	D.
opening	July 22, 1861
location
City / municipality	Dover
county	Kent
Part of the country	England
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51 ° 7 '35 " N , 1 ° 18' 18" E Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '35 " N , 1 ° 18' 18" E
Railway lines
	Chatham Main Line; Kent Coast Line; South Eastern Main Line;
List of train stations in the United Kingdom

Reception building

Class 71 SR electric locomotive in 1959

A 1945 Ordnance Survey Map of Dover showing Dover Priory and Dover Marine Station

A Railway Clearing House map of Dovers from 1908

The Dover Priory Station ( English for Priory ) is now only station of the city of Dover in Kent . The connections are all operated by Southeastern . The station is located in the southeast of the UK rail network and is the southern terminus of the South Eastern Main Line .

Connections (as of December 2016)

Outside of rush hour trains usually run like this:

one train an hour to London St Pancras on High Speed One
one train per hour to London Charing Cross via Sevenoaks
two trains per hour to London Victoria via Canterbury and Chatham
one train an hour to Ramsgate via Deal

There has been no bus connection to the port of Dover since 2014.

history

Dover Priory Station opened on July 22, 1861, as the temporary terminus for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR). On November 1, 1861, the end station became a through station with the completion of a tunnel to the Westhafen, where the LCDR built Dover Harbor station. Initially, the Dover Town (station was city ) called, but in July 1863 he was renamed ( "leading to rival SER to adopt the name for one of its Dover stations"). In 1927, passenger traffic to Priory station was merged, followed by modernization in 1932. The Chatham Main Line after Priory Station was electrified in 1959 as part of the first phase of electrification of the Kenter coastline under the BR-1955 modernization program. The route to Ramsgate via Deal was then electrified as part of the second phase of the electrification plan in January 1961. In June 1961 the line to Folkestone was electrified. The high-speed link to London-St Pancras started in 2009.

Assassination of the station master in 1868

In 1868 the station master Edward Walsh (e) was murdered by 18-year-old Thomas Wells, a porter from the LCDR, after he had reprimanded him for his work. Wells was convicted and hanged.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c National Rail timetable board 207
↑ National Rail timetable board 212
↑ [1]
↑ ^a ^b ^c Dover Priory Station . Dover - Lock and Key of the Kingdom. 2007. Archived from the original on February 7, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 10, 2007. @1@ 2

^ David Glasspool: Dover Priory . Kent Rail. 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2007.

↑ ^a ^b ^c Electric Railways . 'Stendec Systems'. 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 1, 2007. @1@ 2

^ Dover gets high-speed CTRL trains , BBC News . July 14, 2006.

↑ Charles Hindley: Curiosities of street literature, comprising “cocks”, or “catch pennies”: a large and curious assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories, comic tales in prose and verse, broadsides on the royal family, political litanies, dialogues, catechisms, acts of Parliament, street ... political papers . Reeves and Turner, 1871, p. 239.

↑ Steve Fielding: Hangman's Record 1868-1899 , Volume 1. Chancery House, 1994, ISBN 0-900246-65-0 , p. 2.

Web links

Commons : Dover Priory Station - collection of images

Departure plan and station information

←		→
Folkestone Central	Southeastern High Speed 1 London Sandwich	The End
Folkestone Central	Southeastern South Eastern Main Line	The End
Folkestone Central	Southeastern Kent Coast Line	Martin Mill
Beginning	Southeastern Chatham Main Line	Kearsney
Beginning	Southeastern Chatham Main Line	Canterbury East

[Ft207-1] National Rail timetable board 207

[2] National Rail timetable board 212

[3] [1]

[Dover_Priory_Station-4] Dover Priory Station . Dover - Lock and Key of the Kingdom. 2007. Archived from the original on February 7, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 10, 2007. @1@ 2

[5] David Glasspool: Dover Priory . Kent Rail. 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2007.

[Electric_Railways-6] Electric Railways . 'Stendec Systems'. 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 1, 2007. @1@ 2

[7] Dover gets high-speed CTRL trains , BBC News . July 14, 2006.

[8] Charles Hindley: Curiosities of street literature, comprising “cocks”, or “catch pennies”: a large and curious assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories, comic tales in prose and verse, broadsides on the royal family, political litanies, dialogues, catechisms, acts of Parliament, street ... political papers . Reeves and Turner, 1871, p. 239.

[9] Steve Fielding: Hangman's Record 1868-1899 , Volume 1. Chancery House, 1994, ISBN 0-900246-65-0 , p. 2.