Newhaven Town railway station

Newhaven Town railway station is one of two stations serving Newhaven, East Sussex, England, the other being Newhaven Harbour. A third station, Newhaven Marine, is notionally open, but has not had a train service since 2006.

Newhaven Town
Location
PlaceNewhaven
Local authorityLewes
Grid referenceTQ449014
Operations
Station codeNVN
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.320 million
2015/16 0.326 million
2016/17 0.236 million
2017/18 0.281 million
2018/19 0.308 million
History
Key datesOpened 8 December 1847 (8 December 1847)
Pre-groupingLB&SCR
Post-groupingSouthern 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 Town from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station has two platforms, both with Permit to Travel Machines and trains are operated by Southern. It is on the Seaford Branch of the East Coastway Line, 56 miles 25 chains (90.6 km) measured from London Bridge.[1]

The station is adjacent to the passenger terminal for the Port of Newhaven which has regular ferry sailings to Dieppe in France. Foot passengers should alight here and not at Newhaven Harbour railway station, which is for the harbour industrial estate and freight terminal.

Services

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

There are also two trains to London Victoria on weekday mornings, and one in the opposite direction in the evening.[2]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Southease   Southern
Seaford Branch Line		   Newhaven Harbour
 Ferry services
Dieppe   DFDS Seaways
ferry		   Terminus

Motive power depot
Newhaven Locomotive Depot 7 October 1962

The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened an engine shed at the station in 1877. British Railways closed it in 1963 and the building is now a private workshop.

RCTS Sussex rail tour in 1962
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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.

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