Newhaven Harbour railway station

Newhaven Harbour railway station is one of two active stations serving Newhaven in East Sussex, England, the other being Newhaven Town. A third, Newhaven Marine, is legally open but its station buildings have been demolished and the only services which run to it are parliamentary trains. Although the line opened in 1847 the station was opened by London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1886.

Newhaven Harbour
Location
Place	Newhaven
Local authority	Lewes
Grid reference	TQ449009
Operations
Station code	NVH
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	50,878
2015/16	55,070
2016/17	52,342
2017/18	57,982
2018/19	53,266
History
Key dates	Opened 1886 (1886)
Pre-grouping	LB&SCR
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Newhaven Harbour from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Trains are operated by Southern and the station is on the Seaford Branch of the East Coastway Line, 56 miles 51 chains (91.1 km) measured from London Bridge.[1] Beyond the station en route to Bishopstone, the line reduces to single track to Seaford.

The station is adjacent to the harbour industrial estate and freight terminal. The passenger terminal for the Port of Newhaven which has regular ferry sailings to Dieppe in France is served by Newhaven Town railway station. The station despite its name has not been used as the main ferry terminal station, originally Newhaven Marine was the foot passenger terminal, before it moved to Newhaven Town.

The station has two platforms joined by a bridge, with Permit to Travel Machines on both platforms.

Newhaven Harbour's signal box was demolished on Sunday 15 March 2020, several months after the Seaford branch resignalling project transferred signalling control to Three Bridges ROC.

Services

As of May 2011 the typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 2 to Brighton
• 2 to Seaford

There are also two trains to London Victoria station on weekday mornings.[2]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Newhaven Town		Southern Seaford Branch Line		Bishopstone
Newhaven Town Line and station open		Southern Seaford Branch Line		Newhaven Marine Line open, station closed to passengers

References

1. Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 17A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. "Rail Timetable Table 189" (PDF). Network Rail. May 2011.

External links

• Train times and station information for Newhaven Harbour railway station from National Rail