Rainham railway station (Kent)

Rainham railway station is a railway station in Rainham in Kent. The station is in walking distance from the Rainham shopping centre. The station is on the Chatham Main Line.

Rainham
The station in April 2009
Location
Place	Rainham
Local authority	Borough of Medway
Coordinates	51.366411°N 0.611328°E / 51.366411; 0.611328
Grid reference	TQ818662
Operations
Station code	RAI
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms in use	3
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
History
25 Jan 1858[1]	Opened as Rainham and Newington
1 Aug 1862	Renamed Rainham
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Services

Train services at Rainham are run by Southeastern and Thameslink, They use Class 375, 395 and 700 EMUs.

The off-peak service is:^[2]

• 2 trains per hour to London St Pancras International
• 2 trains per hour to London Victoria
• 2 trains per hour to Luton via Dartford and Greenwich
• 1 trains per hour to Faversham
• 1 trains per hour to Dover Priory via Canterbury East
• 2 trains per hour to Ramsgate

Some trains go to and from London Bridge and London Cannon Street at peak hours.

Previous station	National Rail			Next station
Gillingham		Southeastern Chatham Main Line		Newington or Sittingbourne
		Southeastern High Speed 1		Sittingbourne
		Thameslink North Kent Line		Terminus