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.

Freight on this line, hour by hour

Freight is booked over the Chatham Main Line on 1,241 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 213 paths on the Wednesday, 126 paths on the Saturday and 52 paths on the Sunday. 65 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 27 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

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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