Hollingbourne railway station serves Hollingbourne

Hollingbourne

Hollingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the southward slope of the North Downs to the east of the county town, Maidstone. The parish population is almost 1000 persons and includes Hollingbourne village as well as Broad...

 in Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

. It was opened in 1884. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Southeastern

Southeastern (train operating company)

London & South Eastern Railway Limited, trading as Southeastern is a train operating company in south-east England. On 1 April 2006 it became the franchisee for the new Integrated Kent Franchise , replacing the publicly owned South Eastern Trains on the former South East Franchise...

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The station is unmanned; a PERTIS

Permit to travel

In the ticketing system of the British rail network, a Permit to Travel provisionally allows passengers to travel on a train when they have not purchased a ticket in advance and the ticket office of the station they are travelling from is closed, without incurring a penalty fare.Since a large...

 'permit to travel' machine is located on the up platform.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is one train per hour to and one train per hour to London Victoria

Victoria station (London)

Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and London Underground complex. It is named after nearby Victoria Street and not Queen Victoria. It is the second busiest railway terminus in London after Waterloo, and includes an air terminal for passengers...

 via Maidstone East

Maidstone East railway station

Maidstone East railway station is one of three stations in the central area of Maidstone, Kent, but currently the only one with a regular direct service to London. The station is on the Maidstone East Line, south-east of London Victoria , and is served by trains operated by...

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There is also a peak hour service via Thameslink across London, serving City Thameslink, Farringdon and St Pancras International before travelling onto Bedford.

See also

• Hollingbourne Rural District
  Hollingbourne Rural District
  Hollingbourne Rural District was a rural district in the county of Kent, England. It was named after the village of Hollingbourne.Following the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the district was merged with Maidstone Rural District to form the Borough of Maidstone.- Civil parishes :At the...
  
  
• Hollingbourne Downs
  Hollingbourne Downs
  Hollingbourne Downs is a stretch of chalk downland north of the village of Hollingbourne, Kent. The hills form part of the North Downs escarpment that runs from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover and was notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1968.-See also:*...
  
  
• Mills on Hollingbourne Stream

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