Balcombe railway station

Balcombe railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England, serving the village of Balcombe, West Sussex. It is 33 miles 64 chains (54.4 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill and is situated between Three Bridges and Haywards Heath. It is managed by Southern.

For the station in Melbourne, Australia once known as Balcombe, see Mentone railway station.

Balcombe
Location
Place	Balcombe
Local authority	District of Mid Sussex
Grid reference	TQ306301
Operations
Station code	BAB
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.129 million
2015/16	0.129 million
2016/17	0.128 million
2017/18	0.132 million
2018/19	0.152 million
History
Key dates	Opened 12 July 1841 (12 July 1841)
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Balcombe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Balcombe Station in 1961

Trains calling at Balcombe are primarily operated by Thameslink, with some Southern services during the peaks.

History

The original station was opened in July 1841 by the London and Brighton Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. The station was resited to its present position in 1848 or 1849.[1]

The station became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 2tph to Brighton via Burgess Hill
• 2tph to Bedford via London Bridge

These services are operated by Thameslink

In the morning peak

• 1 train runs from Brighton to Cambridge (Thameslink)
• 1 train runs from Eastbourne to London Bridge (Southern)
• 1 train runs from Littlehampton to London Victoria (Southern)
• 2 trains runs from Littlehampton to Bedford (Thameslink)
• 1 train runs from London Victoria to Brighton (Southern)

No additional trains run in the evening peak

References

1. Howard Turner, J.T. (1978). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway, Vol.2 Establishment and Growth=Batsford. London, England. ISBN 0-7134-1389-1. p.22.

• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Three Bridges		Southern Brighton Main Line		Haywards Heath
		Thameslink Thameslink