Portslade railway station

Portslade
Location
Place	Portslade
Local authority	Brighton & Hove
Grid reference	TQ264055
Operations
Station code	PLD
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13	1.061 million
2013/14	1.102 million
2014/15	1.147 million
2015/16	1.149 million
2016/17	0.951 million
History
Key dates	Opened 12 May 1840 (12 May 1840)
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* 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.
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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, 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

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:

Westbound

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

On Sundays, the services to West Worthing do not operate.

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 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

• 
  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
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  Platform-side view of the main building from rail height, standing on the adjacent level crossing
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  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

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 / 50.83556; -0.20556