Martin Mill railway station serves the small village of Martin Mill in East Kent. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. The booking office is open only on weekday mornings however a ticket machine (card only) on the Dover-bound platform caters for out-of-hours ticketing. For many years the ticket office acted as a Post Office for the local community. Services All services at Martin Mill are operated by Southeastern using and EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: 1 tph to London St Pancras International 1 tph to During the peak hours, the station is also served by a number of services between Ramsgate and London Charing Cross via . History The station was opened on 15 June 1881 by the Dover and Deal Joint Railway when it opened the line from an end-on connection at to Buckley Junction near Dover. The line was the only one jointly owned by the rival South Eastern Railway and London, Chatham and Dover Railway and remained independent until the Grouping. The line has been described as one of the more spectacular in southern England with Martin Mill at the apex on a 400-foot-high plateau. The station was built with two platforms either side of a double track, a signal box was located to the south with a goods yard to the south east. The goods yard could handle most types of goods including live stock and it was equipped with a 10-ton crane. The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939. Two camping coaches were positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1959, then three coaches in 1960 and 1961 then they were replaced by three Pullman camping coaches from 1962 to 1967. Military history Martin Mill also served as an important station during both the First and Second World Wars. During the construction of Dover Harbour in 1897 a single track branch was constructed to bring in materials from Martin Mill. The track ran over the surface of the high chalk plateau parallel with the Dover-Deal main line, before climbing up to the summit just at the entrance to Guston tunnel. From there, it ascended to the cliff top, 350 ft above sea level. It then descended in a zig-zag formation on a vertiginous shelf which was cut into the cliff, leading down to the eastern part