Portslade railway station

Portslade
Portslade
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
2016/17	0.951 million
2017/18	1.070 million
2018/19	1.147 million
2019/20	1.204 million
2020/21	0.314 million
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

Services[]

Off-peak, all services at Portslade are operated by Southern using Class 313 and 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[1]

2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
4 tph to Brighton (2 of these run call at all stations and 2 do not stop at Aldrington)
2 tph to West Worthing (all stations)
1 tph to Southampton Central via Chichester
1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour
2 tph to Littlehampton

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
Aldrington or Hove		Southern West Coastway Line		Fishersgate or Southwick or Shoreham-by-Sea
Hove		Thameslink Bedford to Littlehampton Peak Hours Only		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]

Gallery[]

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

References[]

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

External links[]

Media related to Portslade railway station at Wikimedia Commons

Train times and station information for Portslade railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 50°50′08″N 0°12′20″W / 50.83556°N 0.20556°W / 50.83556; -0.20556

[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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