St Leonards Warrior Square railway station

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St Leonards Warrior Square

Location

Place

St Leonards on Sea

Local authority

Hastings, East Sussex

Operations

Managed by

Southeastern

Platforms in use

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.529 million

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

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St Leonards Warrior Square railway station is one of four railway stations serving Hastings in East Sussex. It is on the Hastings Line and the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southeastern and Southern.

The station building and house still in existence today were constructed in 1837. Originally named Gensing Station, this was owned by the South Eastern Railway (SER), and competing London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) trains were not allowed to stop here until December 1870, being forced to pass through non-stop. The two companies maintained separate booking offices until 1923 when they both became part of the Southern Railway. The station is constructed in a narrow valley with higher ground east and west, so that trains arrive and depart either end of the platform through tunnels. This restricts the number of carriages which have direct access to the platform.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service is:

1tph to Ashford International
2tph to Ore
3tph to Hastings
2tph to London Charing Cross via Tunbridge Wells
2tph to Brighton via Eastbourne and Lewes
1tph to London Victoria via Eastbourne, Gatwick Airport and East Croydon

Preceding station		Following station
West St Leonards	Southeastern Hastings Line	Hastings
Bexhill	Southern East Coastway Line & Marshlink Line	Hastings
Disused Railways
St Leonards West Marina	LB&SCR Brighton, Lewes and Hastings railway	Hastings