It is 75 miles 9 chains (120.9 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Shepherds Well and Dover Priory, the terminus.

The booking office in the station building on the country-bound platform is open only for very limited hours on Mondays to Fridays mornings but a Permit To Travel ticket machine (also on the country-bound platform) caters for out-of-hours ticketing.

The community of Kearsney grew around the Railway Bell Hotel which was on the main Dover to London road.

In the early days of the railway this meant trains did not always have to make the steep climb out of Dover.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2] Additional services including trains to and from London Bridge and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.