Portslade railway station

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Portslade

Location

Place

Portslade

Local authority

Brighton & Hove

Operations

Station code

PLD

Managed by

Southern

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.607 million

2005/06 *

0.630 million

History

Key dates

Opened 12 May 1840

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

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Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station serving the town of Portslade-by-Sea in East Sussex, but located on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (a part commonly known as 'West Hove').

1 Services
2 Future developments
3 Gallery
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Services

The station is operated by Southern and is on the West Coastway Line just outside of Brighton. The standard Monday-Saturday off-peak service consists of 5 trains per hour in each direction:

Eastbound

1 train per hour (tph) to London Victoria,
4 tph to Brighton, (2 calling at Hove Only),

Westbound

1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour,
1 tph to Littlehampton,
1 tph to Southampton Central,
2 tph to West Worthing,

On Sundays this is reduced to:

2 tph to Brighton, calling at Aldrington and Hove
1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour,
1 tph to Littlehampton,

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Aldrington		Southern West Coastway Line		Fishersgate

[edit] 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].

[edit] 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