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 The Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet is Craig Mackinlay of the Conservative Party. He has been the constituency's MP since the United Kingdom 2015 general election. Broadstairs and St Peter's have been twinned with Wattignies in northern France since the early 1980s. The town lies above a harbour with cliffs on either side. It has seven bays of golden sand, which are (from south to north) Dumpton Gap, Louisa Bay, Viking Bay, Stone Bay, Joss Bay, Kingsgate Bay and Botany Bay. North Foreland rises between Stone Bay and Joss Bay. On the cliffs above Kingsgate Bay is Kingsgate