[4][5] Appledore is just north of a junction of a freight branch line running to Dungeness nuclear power station via Lydd.

[6] Appledore is also the start of the single track section of the Marshlink line, which runs through to Ore near Hastings with a passing loop at Rye.

[4] When British Rail introduced widespread provision of enamel totem station signs Appledore was one of very few that had some wooden ones fitted.

[8] The station was first proposed by the South Eastern Railway (SER) in June 1848 as a stop on the Ashford to Hastings line.

That September, hop planters near Appledore petitioned the early construction of the line to help with harvest; however a formal decision to build a station was not taken until June 1850.

[10] The main building was built in an Italianate style with red brick with a Welsh slate roof.

[12] In 1881, Appledore was upgraded to become a junction station to cater for a branch line to Lydd, with new signals installed.

[14] Appledore ceased to be a junction station for passengers when the branch line to Lydd and New Romney closed in 1967.