Appledore (Kent) railway station
Appledore 
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| Location | |
| Place | Appledore |
| Local authority | Ashford |
| Coordinates | 51°01′59″N 0°48′59″E / 51.0330°N 0.8164°ECoordinates: 51°01′59″N 0°48′59″E / 51.0330°N 0.8164°E |
| Grid reference | TQ975297 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | APD |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 31,346 |
| 2012/13 |
 36,908 |
| 2013/14 |
40,116 |
| 2014/15 |
37,464 |
| 2015/16 |
39,190 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 13 February 1851 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Appledore from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Appledore railway station lies east of Appledore in Kent, England. It is on the Marshlink Line, and train services are provided by Southern. The station is located almost two miles from Appledore village and 8 1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) south of Ashford.
It is at a junction of a freight branch line running to Dungeness nuclear power station via Lydd. Appledore is also the start of the single track section of the Marshlink line, which runs through to Ore near Hastings with a passing loop at Rye.
APTIS was once provided here until the booking office closed in the very early 1990s leaving no ticketing facilities. In 2016 Southern installed a new self-service ticket machine. The office buildings on the Ashford-bound platform are unused.
Trains serving the station are Southern diesel Class 171 Turbostars, used on the non-electrified Ashford-Rye-Hastings (Marshlink) route.
A rail track engineering company occupies the yard just south of the station.
Opened by the South Eastern Railway, which then merged with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
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