Aldrington railway station

Aldrington railway station, sometimes known by its former names of Aldrington Halt and Dyke Junction, is a railway station that serves the area of Aldrington in Hove, in East Sussex, England. The station is 1 mile 74 chains (3.1 km) from Brighton on the West Coastway Line.

Aldrington
Westward view from the eastbound platform at Aldrington
Location
Place	Hove
Local authority	Brighton & Hove
Grid reference	TQ281056
Operations
Station code	AGT
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.227 million
2015/16	0.236 million
2016/17	0.186 million
2017/18	0.194 million
2018/19	0.207 million
History
3 September 1905	opened as Dyke Jn Halt
17 June 1932	resited and renamed Aldrington Halt
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aldrington from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

View eastward, towards Hove and Brighton

Dyke Junction Halt was opened in 1905 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway with short wooden platforms. In 1932 new longer platforms were constructed on an adjacent site nearer Hove to the previous platforms. They were renamed Aldrington Halt and later rebuilt in concrete by the Southern Railway. It is situated just east of the former junction with the branch line to Devil's Dyke, which opened in 1887 and closed in 1939; the layout and curvature of certain roads and buildings immediately north-west of the station indicates where the branch ran.

The station was staffed during peak hours until approximately 1990, after which the hut which served as a ticket office was demolished. By 2009 the old concrete shelters had been replaced with reinforced plastic shelters which are now the only features on the platforms. Ramps lead down to street level.

There are ticket-issuing machines at the entrances to each platform. Pre-purchased tickets can also be collected on these machines. There is no footbridge connecting the platforms with each other. However, there is a tunnel under the railway lines at the western end of the platforms which was originally built to allow the local farmer to move his cattle between fields which became separated with the arrival of the railway.

History

Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.

Services

In 2018 the standard off-peak train service was:

• 2 trains per hour to Brighton
• 2 trains per hour to West Worthing

On Sundays, one of the West Worthing trains continues to Portsmouth Harbour and the other continues to Southampton Central.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hove		Southern West Coastway Line		Portslade
	Disused railways
Hove		London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Brighton and Dyke Railway (1887-1939)		Rowan Halt

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Train times and station information for Aldrington railway station from National Rail