Broadstairs railway station been a suicide. the typical off-peak service from the station is: 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
Bleak House, Broadstairs the house held a special attraction for Dickens, and was the residence he "most desired" in his most favourite of watering places, Broadstairs. In the novel "Sophy Laurie", published in 1865, William Carew Hazlitt writes: "It is at Broadstairs they are staying; in the big, bleak house that stands alone on a peak of the chalk cliff, as if it were some sentinel set over the rovers up and down the sea." For much of the 20th century, Bleak House was in two quite distinct parts, serving as both a private residence and a Dickens memorial museum. In 2012 the