Portslade railway station
Portslade  | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Place | Portslade |
| Local authority | Brighton & Hove |
| Grid reference | TQ264055 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PLD |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 0.960 million |
| 2011/12 |
1.034 million |
| 2012/13 |
1.061 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.102 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.147 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 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. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
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').
Services
The station is operated by Southern and is on the West Coastway Line just outside Brighton. The standard Monday-Saturday off-peak service consists of 5 trains per hour in each direction:
Eastbound
- 4tph to Brighton
- 1tph to London Victoria
Westbound
- 1tph to Southampton Central
- 1tph to Portsmouth Harbour
- 1tph to Littlehampton
- 2tph to West Worthing
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldrington | Southern West Coastway Line Stopping services |
Fishersgate | ||
| Hove | Southern West Coastway Line Semi-fast services |
Southwick | ||
| Hove | Southern West Coastway Line (from London) Mondays-Saturdays only |
Shoreham-by-Sea | ||
Future developments
The Thameslink 2000 project (now known as 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".[1]
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
- ↑ "Delivering a Sustainable Railway - White Paper CM 7176". Department for Transport. 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
External links
- 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