Trains from the station generally run to Victoria via Chatham or to London St Pancras via Ramsgate, Canterbury West and Ashford International.

Trains from Canterbury for Margate had to reverse at Ramsgate Town; a chord was built bypassing the station in 1864, costing £13,707.

[4] Until 1967 a service operated between Margate and Birkenhead Woodside via Ashford, Redhill, Reading, Oxford, Birmingham Snow Hill and Shrewsbury.

[citation needed] The station was rebuilt in 1926 by the SR's chief assistant architect, Edwin Maxwell Fry.

The building is constructed in a monumental classical style from brown brick with a stone dressing and a hipped tiled roof.

Del Boy and Rodney discover the station is closed due to a strike, after being stuck in Margate following their coach blowing up.