The Chatham Main Line

The Chatham Main Line links 29 stations, with a top line speed of 95 mph.

See the Chatham Main Line on the live map

The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.

The line in numbers

No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.

Stations on this line

• Faversham1.5 million a year
• Teynham181,476 a year
• Sittingbourne2.3 million a year
• Newington140,788 a year
• Rainham1.7 million a year
• Gillingham2.5 million a year
• Chatham2.4 million a year
• Rochester2.1 million a year
• Strood1.2 million a year
• Sole Street55,630 a year
• Meopham258,728 a year
• Longfield438,942 a year
• Farningham Road131,516 a year
• Swanley1.5 million a year
• St Mary Cray1.3 million a year
• Bickley738,246 a year
• Bromley South6.2 million a year
• Shortlands1.1 million a year
• Beckenham Junction1.7 million a year
• Kent House814,336 a year
• Penge East1.2 million a year
• Sydenham Hill694,346 a year
• West Dulwich864,428 a year
• Herne Hill2.4 million a year
• Brixton804,378 a year
• Clapham High Street1.4 million a year
• Wandsworth Road610,410 a year
• Battersea Park2.2 million a year
• London Victoria53.8 million a year

The busiest station on the line is London Victoria, 53.8 million entries and exits a year and 6th busiest in Britain.

Lines it meets

Balham to Beckenham Junction Line, Brighton Main Line, Catford Loop, Chatham Main Line (Ramsgate Branch), Darent Valley Line, Medway Valley Line, North Kent Line, South London Line.

Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.

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