Portslade railway station

Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station serving the town of Portslade-by-Sea in East Sussex, England, but located on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (a part commonly known as 'West Hove'). It is 2 miles 73 chains (4.7 km) down the line from Brighton.

Portslade
Location
PlacePortslade
Local authorityBrighton & Hove
Grid referenceTQ264055
Operations
Station codePLD
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryD
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 1.147 million
2015/16 1.149 million
2016/17 0.951 million
2017/18 1.070 million
2018/19 1.147 million
History
Key datesOpened 12 May 1840 (12 May 1840)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Portslade from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Services

Off-peak, all services at Portslade are operated by Southern. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [1]

Additional services including a limited Thameslink service between Littlehampton, London Bridge and Bedford call here during the peak periods.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Southern
Southern
Southern
Thameslink

Future developments

The Thameslink Programme contains proposals to extend the Thameslink network to various additional routes in southern England; one of these would be the section of the West Coastway line between Hove and Littlehampton, with services running via the Cliftonville Curve from the Brighton Main Line. This will see services that currently terminate at London Bridge continuing through Central London and north wards via the Midland Main Line or East Coast Main Line to destinations such as Luton or Cambridge. This however is not imminent, a Department for Transport whitepaper states only that "the Thameslink Programme will be completed by the end of 2015" and that "interim outputs will be delivered by the end of 2011".[2]

  • Southern EMU 377437 arriving with the 1300 Brighton-Littlehampton service on 17 February 2007
  • Side view of the main station building on the Down platform; the side entrance is through the wall on the left
  • The single-storey building on the Up platform, no longer in use, and the Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine
  • Platform-side view of the main building from rail height, standing on the adjacent level crossing
  • South West Trains DMU 170305 passes through the Down platform with the 1257 Brighton-Reading service on 17 February 2007
  • South West Trains EMU 450101 passes through the Up platform with the 1124 Basingstoke-Brighton service on 17 February 2007
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See also

References
  1. "Timetable 27: Littlehampton and Worthing to Brighton and London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
  2. "Delivering a Sustainable Railway - White Paper CM 7176". Department for Transport. 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.

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