Chilham railway station Chilham railway station Chilham railway station serves the area around the village of Chilham in Kent, England, including Chilham itself, Shottenden, Old Wives Lees, and Bagham. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Southeastern. The station was opened by the South Eastern Railway (SER) on 6 February 1846, and is on the SER Ashford to Margate line. The platforms are connected by a concrete footbridge - a typical product of the Southern Railway concrete factory at . There are level crossings near both ends of the station. The station is unmanned. A PERTIS passenger-operated ticket machine, issuing
Chilham on the Julliberrie Downs east of the river. Chilham and the surrounding area was one of the locations for much of Powell and Pressburger's 1944 film "A Canterbury Tale". In 1965 it was used for part of the filming of "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders" starring Kim Novak, Leo McKern and Angela Lansbury, and it was also used as a location for the BBC's 2009 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Emma". The village and the castle featured heavily in a fake snow-bound episode of "Agatha Christie's Poirot" called "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" starring David Suchet. The village was made over