Eridge railway station

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Eridge
Location	Eridge, Wealden England
Grid reference	TQ542345
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	ERI
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	3 August 1868
Original company	Brighton, Uckfield and Tunbridge Wells Railway
Pre-grouping	London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways Network SouthEast
Passengers
2016/17	0.118 million
2017/18	0.122 million
2018/19	0.118 million
2019/20	0.130 million
2020/21	15,882
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Eridge railway station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves a rural district around Eridge in East Sussex. It is 35 miles 53 chains (35.66 miles, 57.39 km) from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern. There are currently major improvement works improving access for the disabled.

Train services from the station are provided by Southern. Also, heritage services connecting to Groombridge, High Rocks and Tunbridge Wells West are run by the Spa Valley Railway. There are good opportunities for walks from the station into the High Weald. The station has a small car park and there is a pub next to the station called the Huntsman.

Services[]

National Rail services at Eridge are operated by Southern using Class 171 DMUs. The current off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[1]

• 1 tph to London Bridge via Oxted
• 1 tph to Uckfield

Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the northbound service runs as far as Oxted only.

Spa Valley Railway services operate between Eridge and Tunbridge Wells West on selected days to connect to Oxted Line services.^[2]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ashurst		Southern Oxted Line Uckfield Branch		Crowborough
	Heritage railways
Groombridge		Spa Valley Railway		Terminus

History[]

The station was opened by the Brighton, Uckfield and Tunbridge Wells Railway on 3 August 1868.

At the time the station was opened, the village of Eridge Green was owned by the nearby Eridge Park, seat of the Earls of Abergavenny.

The station used to be a junction for services running towards Tonbridge via Tunbridge Wells West (closed 1985) and Cuckoo Line to Eastbourne (via Heathfield and Hailsham) closed 1965.

When the Uckfield line was singled in January 1990 all trains used the former up line and only the former up island platform was used by British Rail. The former down island platform was then abandoned but was restored by the Spa Valley Railway, a preserved railway company, who reopened the railway between Eridge and Tunbridge Wells West on 25 March 2011, with trains using the former down line for about 1 mile (1.6 km) north to Birchden Junction where the parallel single lines diverge.

In June 2021, work began to provide step-free access to National Rail services at the station. The work was completed by October 2021. ^[3]

There is a campaign, by the Wealden Line to attempt to re-open the railway between Uckfield and Lewes as a part of the National Rail network.

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eridge railway station.

• Spa Valley Railway
• Wealden Line Campaign

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

Coordinates: 51°05′20″N 0°12′04″E / 51.089°N 0.201°E / 51.089; 0.201