Queenborough railway station
Queenborough 
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| Location | |
| Place | Queenborough |
| Local authority | Swale |
| Grid reference | TQ913721 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | QBR |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.142 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.120 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.119 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.118 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.123 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway London, Chatham and Dover Railway |
| Pre-grouping | South Eastern and Chatham Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| 19 July 1860 | 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 Queenborough from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Queenborough railway station is on the Sheerness Line, on the Isle of Sheppey in North Kent, and serves the town of Queenborough. Train services are provided by Southeastern.
The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour to Sheerness-on-Sea, and two trains per hour to Sittingbourne, for connections to London.
On Platform 2 (Sheerness bound), there is a substantial and historic 2-storey building which contains a ticket office on the ground floor; this is staffed on a part-time basis. There is a self-service ticket machine by the side gate beside the station building to Platform 2. A new train information display with announcements have been installed on each platform replacing the old display on platform 1 which used to show trains in both directions. There are also signals at either end of each platform so if there was a problem with one of the platforms, trains could use the other for services in each direction.
Since January 2015, Southeastern operate two direct services from Sheerness-on-Sea to London Victoria in the morning peak, not stopping at Swale. These services do not stop at Sittingbourne but use the third side of a triangle junction that links the Sheerness Line to the Chatham Mainline. There will also be two return services from London Victoria to Sheerness-on-Sea in the evening peak. This services are formed of Class 465 and Class 466 Networkers working in multiple.
Queenborough was opened on 19 July 1860 by the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway (S&SR), a nominally independent company which had powers to construct a 7.125-mile (11.467-kilometre) branch line from Sittingbourne across the River Swale to a terminus near the entrance of Sheerness Dockyard. The line was worked from the outset by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway which absorbed the S&SR in 1876.
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