South Eastern Main Line

South Eastern Main Line
Southeastern electric multiple units at Charing Cross in 2009
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Network Rail
Locale	Greater London South East England
Termini	London Charing Cross London Cannon Street Dover Priory
Stations	29
Service
Type	Commuter rail, Regional Rail
System	National Rail
Operator(s)	SE Trains
Depot(s)	Grove Park Sidings Ramsgate EMUD Tonbridge Jubilee Sidings
Rolling stock	Class 375 "Electrostar" Class 376 "Electrostar" Class 377 "Electrostar" Class 395 "Javelin" Class 465 "Networker" Class 466 "Networker" Class 707 "Citybeam"
History
Opened	1842–44 in stages
Technical
Line length	77mi 23ch (124.38 km)
Number of tracks	5 (across Hungerford Bridge) 4 (Charing Cross–Borough Market) 2 (Borough Market–London Bridge) 12 (London Bridge–Bermondsey split including Brighton lines) 5 to 6 (Bermondsey split–New Cross) 4 (New Cross–Orpington) 2 (Orpington–Dover)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	750 V DC third rail
Operating speed	100 mph (161 km/h) maximum
Route map (Click to expand)

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Legend
London Charing Cross South West Main Line Hungerford Bridge over River Thames London Waterloo London Waterloo East Thameslink London Blackfriars London Cannon Street London Bridge River Thames South London line to South London line East London line Greenwich line New Cross Gate New Cross Brighton Main Line Tanners Hill Flydown St Johns Greenwich Park branch line to Nunhead Docklands Light Railway Lewisham Mid-Kent line North Kent Line Hither Green Dartford Loop Line Grove Park Bromley North Line Elmstead Woods Chislehurst Chatham Main Line Chislehurst Junction Petts Wood Orpington Chelsfield Knockholt Dunton Green to Swanley Sevenoaks Hildenborough Redhill–Tonbridge line Tonbridge Hastings line Paddock Wood Medway Valley line Marden Staplehurst Headcorn Pluckley High Speed 1 Maidstone line Ashford International Marshlink line Ashford to Ramsgate line Westenhanger High Speed 1 Sandling Dollands Moor Freight Yard Folkestone West to Channel Tunnel Folkestone Central Dover Priory Kent Coast line Chatham Main Line A detailed diagram of the line can be found at South Eastern Main Line diagram

The South Eastern Main Line is a major long-distance railway route in South East England, UK, one of the three main routes crossing the county of Kent, going via Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Ashford and Folkestone to Dover. The other routes are the Chatham Main Line which runs along the north Kent coast to Ramsgate or Dover via Chatham and High Speed 1 which runs through the centre of Kent to the coast at Folkestone where it joins the Channel Tunnel.