Broadstairs railway station Broadstairs railway station Broadstairs railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the seaside town of Broadstairs, Kent. It is down the line from and is situated between and . The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern. Trains to London can run either way through the station, depending on the route either via Margate or . The station opened on 5 October 1863. A high-speed service to London St Pancras began on 13 December 2009. In 2015, a woman was killed by a train at the station, in what was believed to have
Broadstairs rebuilt in the 1920s, electricity was not installed at the station until well into the 1970s, and the buildings and platforms remained illuminated by gaslight until then. Since 2009 Southeastern have been operating a high speed train service between London St Pancras and Ashford International which runs on to Broadstairs cutting about 40 minutes from what was once a two-hour journey to other termini in London. In 1841, 44 mariners were recorded as resident in Broadstairs; nine of these being specified as fishermen, and of course the residual boat-building activity that remained after the Culmer White yard closed in 1824