- Marden railway station
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Marden 
Marden station Location Place Marden Local authority Maidstone Coordinates 51°10′30″N 0°29′35″E / 51.175°N 0.493°ECoordinates: 51°10′30″N 0°29′35″E / 51.175°N 0.493°E Operations Station code MRN Managed by Southeastern Number of platforms 2 Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail EnquiriesAnnual rail passenger usage 2004/05 * 0.226 million 2005/06 * 
0.237 million2006/07 * 
0.233 million2007/08 * 0.273 million2008/09 * 0.286 millionHistory 31 August 1842 Opened National Rail - UK railway stations A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Marden from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year. Marden, 1951 Legend
to Paddock Wood 
Pattenden Lane 
(single slip) 
B2079 to Maidstone 
To Staplehurst Legend 
Running line Sidings Marden railway station is located in Marden, Kent, England which lies in the Maidstone Borough Council administrative area. Southeastern is responsible for the station, and all trains serving it.
The ticket office, staffed for part of the day, is located in a modern building on London-bound platform 1. A PERTIS permit-to-travel ticket machine is located by the ticket office/platform entrance.
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Accident
At 20:42 on 4 January 1969 there was a collision between a down electric passenger train (formed of 2 x 4CEP units) and a down parcels train to the west of Marden station. Four people were killed. The cause was the driver of the passenger train missing a signal in fog and passing it at danger. Local farmer David Winch of Brook Farm, along with his employees, worked for fourteen hours assisting in the rescue operation. They used their tractors and trailers to ferry the injured across muddy fields from the crash site to waiting ambulances. The ambulance officer in charge at the time, Stanley Skinner, was awarded a BEM in recognition of his role.[1][2]
Services
As of May 2010 typical off peak services from this station are:
- 2tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross
- 1tph to Dover Priory and Canterbury West (dividing at Ashford International)
- 1tph to Ramsgate via Dover and Canterbury, dividing at Ashford[3]
Preceding station 
National RailFollowing station Paddock Wood Southeastern
South Eastern Main LineStaplehurst References
- ^ Glover, John (2001). Southern Electric. Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan. pp. 137–38. ISBN 0 7110 2708 9.
- ^ Marden History
- ^ Network Rail Timetable May 2010: Table 207
External links
Media related to Marden railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Eyewitness account of the 1969 train crash.
- Signal box diagram, 1951
- Marden on navigable 1940 OS map
Marden Locations in the
parish of MardenBuildings Church · Marden Mill · Marden stationBusinesses Kent Air AmbulanceEvents Farman Goliath crash · Train crashMilitary People Nicholas Amhurst · Helen Grant · William Hartnell · Sidney Highwood · William Punshon · Stephen Southon1. Located mostly within Staplehurst, but partly in Marden Categories:- Maidstone (borough)
- Railway stations in Kent
- Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations
- Railway stations opened in 1842
- Railway stations served by Southeastern
- DfT Category E stations
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