The South Eastern Main Line

The South Eastern Main Line runs for 77.1 miles between Charing Cross and Dover Priory, serving 31 stations, with a top line speed of 100 mph.

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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

Stations on this line

• Charing Cross19.8 million a year
• London Waterloo70.4 million a year
• Waterloo East6.8 million a year
• London Cannon Street7.5 million a year
• London Bridge54.7 million a year
• South Bermondsey632,694 a year
• New Cross3.2 million a year
• St Johns842,382 a year
• Hither Green2.9 million a year
• Grove Park2.3 million a year
• Elmstead Woods927,220 a year
• Chislehurst1.0 million a year
• Petts Wood1.7 million a year
• Orpington5.0 million a year
• Chelsfield593,350 a year
• Knockholt188,588 a year
• Dunton Green195,198 a year
• Sevenoaks3.7 million a year
• Hildenborough352,930 a year
• Tonbridge4.0 million a year
• Paddock Wood1.1 million a year
• Marden485,824 a year
• Staplehurst731,008 a year
• Headcorn578,394 a year
• Pluckley114,656 a year
• Ashford International3.8 million a year
• Westenhanger62,914 a year
• Sandling75,282 a year
• Folkestone West970,078 a year
• Folkestone Central817,324 a year
• Dover Priory1.0 million a year

The busiest station on the line is London Waterloo, 70.4 million entries and exits a year and 2nd busiest in Britain.

Lines it meets

Bexleyheath Line, Bromley North Line, Chatham Main Line (Dover Branch), Darent Valley Line, East London Line, Greenwich Line, Hastings Line, High Speed 1, London Bridge to Windmill Bridge Junction, Medway Valley Line, South West Main 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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