Folkestone Harbour railway station
Folkestone Harbour station is a railway station built to serve the port of
Folkestone in
Kent, and is one of three stations in the town. The station provided a terminus for the
boat trains from London which connected with the ferry services to
Calais and
Boulogne. However, the opening of the
Channel Tunnel and the
Eurotunnel Shuttle terminal led to the majority of ferry operators move to other ports in the South-East, with the result that only two services per day were arriving at Folkestone Harbour, to connect with the
Hoverspeed SeaCat services. When these were moved to
Ramsgate, Folkestone Harbour became redundant, and so the station closed to ordinary rail traffic in
2001. However, it remains in use between March and November when the
Venice Simplon Orient Express's
British Pullman service terminates there; from Folkestone Harbour, passengers are transferred by coach to the Eurotunnel terminal, where they join a Eurotunnel Shuttle to Calais to pick up the
Orient Express in France.
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Folkestone Central*
Folkestone West*
Train times and
station information for Folkestone Harbour railway station
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Street map and
aerial photo of Folkestone Harbour railway station from
Multimap.com 
