Gravesend railway station
Gravesend 
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A London St Pancras to Faversham class 395 high speed train arrives at Platform 2 Gravesend
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| Location | |
| Place | Gravesend |
| Local authority | Borough of Gravesham |
| Grid reference | TQ645740 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GRV |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 2.706 million |
| – Interchange |
63,462 |
| 2012/13 |
 2.646 million |
| – Interchange |
65,872 |
| 2013/14 |
2.616 million |
| – Interchange |
70,279 |
| 2014/15 |
2.772 million |
| – Interchange |
71,578 |
| 2015/16 |
2.932 million |
| – Interchange |
88,539 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 30 July 1849 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Gravesend from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Coordinates: 51°26′28.74″N 0°22′0.09″E / 51.4413167°N 0.3666917°E
Gravesend railway station serves the town of Gravesend in north Kent; train services are operated by Southeastern. The station is 24 miles (38 km) from London Charing Cross. As of the Christmas period 2013 a major overhaul of the lines and platforms changed the four line, two platform layout into a three line, three platform layout.
The first railway to arrive in Gravesend was the Gravesend & Rochester Railway (G&RR) who had purchased the Thames and Medway Canal and its tunnel between Strood and Higham. The G&RR ran the first train to the then terminus at Gravesend (adjacent to the Canal Basin) on 10 February 1845. On 30 July 1849 the line was extended to North Kent East Junction on the South Eastern Railway (SER) and thence to London Bridge.
There was a second Gravesend station (later known as Gravesend West) opened by SER's rivals, London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR). It was the end of a branch off the LCDR's main line and it allowed access to Victoria. journey times were uncompetitive and when the two companies merged in 1899, the branch was soon relegated to a secondary line and closed in 1968.
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