Angmering railway station

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Angmering

The main station building and platform one, as seen looking west from platform two (June 2007)

Location

Place

East Preston

Local authority

Arun

Operations

Station code

ANG

Managed by

Southern

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.526 million

2005/06 *

0.553 million

History

Key dates

Opened 16 March 1846

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Angmering from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Angmering is a railway station on the West Coastway Line, situated in East Preston in the district of Arun. It was opened in 1846. The station itself is situated about 3/4 of a mile away from the village of Angmering, and instead sits adjacent to the A27. Buses depart for Angmering village hourly (Monday to Saturday off-peak), or alternatively walking to the village takes about 20 minutes. The station is located near to the local secondary school 'The Angmering School', some of the students of which use the station on a daily basis to travel to and from school. Angmering station is also designed to be used by the residents of the nearby villages of Rustington and East Preston, with some of the station's signage actually reading 'Angmering for Rustington and East Preston'.

1 Services
2 Deaths
3 Gallery
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Services

The station and all trains serving it are run by Southern, with the typical off-peak service comprising of the following:

Eastbound

1tph to Brighton from Southampton Central, calling at Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick, Portslade, Hove and Brighton.

1tph to Brighton from Portsmouth Harbour, calling at Goring-by-Sea, Durrington-on-Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick, Portslade, Hove and Brighton.

1tph to London Victoria from Littlehampton, calling at Goring-by-Sea, Durrington-on-Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Hove, Haywards Heath, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Clapham Junction and London Victoria.

1tph to London Victoria from Littlehampton, calling at Goring-by-Sea, Durrington-on-Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Portslade, Hove, Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Clapham Junction and London Victoria.

Westbound

1tph to Portsmouth Harbour from Brighton, calling at Ford, Barnham, Chichester, Havant, Fratton, Portsmouth and Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour.

1tph to Southampton Central from Brighton, calling at Barnham, Chichester, Southbourne, Emsworth, Havant, Cosham, Fareham Swanwick and Southampton Central.

2tph to Littlehampton, calling at Littlehampton.

Note that some train services along the line do not call at this station.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Goring-by-Sea		Southern West Coastway Line		Ford
Goring-by-Sea		Southern West Coastway Line Littlehampton branch		Littlehampton

[edit] Deaths

Local woman Maureen Weselby committed suicide by jumping in front of a Brighton-bound express, operated by South West Trains, in May 2006.^[1] Local teenager Adam Blackwood was killed here when a Littlehampton-bound Southern Class 377 train approaching the station knocked him down at a nearby pedestrian level crossing in early 2007.^[2]