Headcorn railway station
Headcorn 
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| Location | |
| Place | Headcorn |
| Local authority | Borough of Maidstone |
| Grid reference | TQ837439 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HCN |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Number of platforms | 2 (formerly 3) |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.597 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.595 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.607 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.612 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.610 million |
| History | |
| 31 August 1842 | Opened |
| 19 May 1905 | Opening of the KESR |
| 1924–1930 | Remodelled |
| 4 January 1954 | Closure of the KESR |
| 2 April 1962 | Goods services withdrawn |
| 1988–1989 | Rebuilt |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Headcorn from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Headcorn railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the village of Headcorn, Kent. It is 45 miles 20 chains (72.8 km) down-line from London Charing Cross and is situated between Staplehurst and Pluckley. The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.
Headcorn was, until 1954, the northern terminus of the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
Headcorn station was opened in August 1842 as part of the extension of the South Eastern Railway's (SER) main line from Tonbridge. In common with other SER stations outside the London area, staggered platforms and a simple single-storey wooden clapboard station building were provided at Headcorn. The SER's line was opened to Ashford by December 1842, to Folkestone by December 1843 and finally to Dover by February 1844. A bridge between Headcorn and Staplehurst was the scene of an accident in 1865 involving Charles Dickens; a rail had been removed by a ganger mistaken as to the day, and the Staplehurst rail crash resulted.
In 1905, the station became the northern terminus of Colonel Stephens' Kent and East Sussex Railway, the KESR's tracks entering Headcorn via a siding on the Ashford side of the station. The KESR had its own long platform to the rear of the Up main line platform, and a corrugated iron building was moved here from the KESR's Tenterden Town station. The station, known as Headcorn Junction by the KESR, was remodelled between 1924 and 1930 by the Southern Railway (SR), with the addition of two new fast lines through the station. This involved the demolition of the main line Up platform, its reconstruction opposite the Down platform, and the moving of the KESR's connection to the main line to the west side of the station. A new concrete KESR platform was provided here facing on a curved alignment.
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