Portslade railway station
Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station located in Portslade-by-Sea in the city of Brighton and Hove, 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 | |
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General information | |
Location | Portslade, Brighton & Hove England |
Grid reference | TQ264055 |
Managed by | Southern |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | PLD |
Classification | DfT category D |
History | |
Opened | 12 May 1840 |
Passengers | |
2017/18 | 1.070 million |
2018/19 | 1.147 million |
2019/20 | 1.204 million |
2020/21 | 0.314 million |
2021/22 | 0.703 million |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Services
All services at Portslade are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]
- 2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
- 2 tph to Brighton (1 of these calls at all stations and 1 does not stop at Aldrington)
- 2 tph to Littlehampton
- 1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour
- 1 tph to Southampton Central
During the peak hours, the station is served by a small number of direct trains between Brighton and Littlehampton, as well as a single peak hour service per day between London Bridge and Littlehampton.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Aldrington or Hove | Southern |
Fishersgate or Southwick or Shoreham-by-Sea |
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] This was eventually implemented in 2017, with a single peak hour service from Littlehampton to Bedford. This service was cut back to London Bridge in January 2023, before the service was transferred to Southern in May 2023.[3]
Gallery
- 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
References
- Table 186, 188 National Rail timetable, May 2023
- "Delivering a Sustainable Railway - White Paper CM 7176". Department for Transport. 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
- "Train Timetable | Train Times | Southern Railway". www.southernrailway.com. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
External links
Media related to Portslade railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Portslade railway station from National Rail