Ramsgate railway station
Ramsgate 
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| Location | |
| Place | Ramsgate |
| Local authority | District of Thanet |
| Grid reference | TR371657 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | RAM |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| 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 |
 1.108 million |
| – Interchange |
0.163 million |
| 2012/13 |
 1.063 million |
| – Interchange |
0.130 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.080 million |
| – Interchange |
0.120 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.136 million |
| – Interchange |
0.128 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.203 million |
| – Interchange |
79,750 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 2 July 1926 |
| Listed status | |
| Listed feature | Ramsgate Station |
| Listing grade | II (since 11 July 2000) |
| Entry number | 1086060 |
| Added to list | 4 February 1988 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ramsgate from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Ramsgate railway station serves the town of Ramsgate in Thanet in Kent, England, and is at least 10 minutes' walk from the town centre. The station lies on the Chatham Main Line, 79 miles 21 chains (127.6 km) down-line from London Victoria, the Kent Coast Line, and the Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line. The station is managed by Southeastern, which operates all trains serving it.
Ramsgate railway station is a 1920s brick-built station thought to have been designed by James Robb Scott and Edwin Maxwell Fry, and built between 1924-6. Margate station and the demolished Dumpton Park station are of a similar design. The building is Grade II listed.
Trains from Ramsgate run to London Charing Cross, London Victoria and London St Pancras.
The station's facilities include waiting rooms, toilets, cafe, a ticket office (2 windows) and a ticket machine.
The arrangement inherited by the Southern Railway in 1923 with the lines and stations closed in 1926 shown in pink (St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay had closed in 1916). The dotted line represents the new surface line and stations. Ramsgate and Dumpton Park both opened in 1926.
Trains first reached Ramsgate in April 1846 when the South Eastern Railway (SER) opened a line from Canterbury. It terminated at Ramsgate SER, later to be called Ramsgate Town, which, unlike the present-day station, was in the town centre. Later the same year the line opened across Thanet to Margate, to Margate SER (later Margate Sands). Trains from Canterbury to Margate had to reverse at Ramsgate Town; a chord was built bypassing the station, but not often used. St Lawrence station was opened in 1864 just before this chord, but closed in 1916.
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