Seaford railway station (England)

Seaford National Rail
Location
Place Seaford
Local authority Lewes
Grid reference TV481991
Operations
Station code SEF
Managed by Southern
Number of platforms 1 (formerly 2)
DfT category D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 0.762 million
2013/14 Increase 0.790 million
2014/15 Increase 0.798 million
2015/16 Decrease 0.767 million
2016/17 Decrease 0.539 million
History
Pre-grouping LB&SCR
Post-grouping Southern Railway
1 June 1864 Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Seaford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Seaford railway station is in Seaford, East Sussex, England. It is the terminus of the Seaford Branch Line of the East Coastway Line, 58 miles 77 chains (94.9 km) measured from London Bridge.[1] The line to the station has been reduced to a single track and only one platform remains in use (previously two) though is still numbered "platform 2". Train services from the station are provided by Southern.

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway opened Seaford station on 1 June 1864. It was designed as a through station for a proposed extension to Eastbourne that was never built.

A working model of Seaford Station as it appeared in the 1920s is displayed at Seaford Museum.

Signal Box

At the end of the station, there was a signal box that was used up until the mid 1980s. The box was damaged by the salt air coming from the nearby sea and the box was dangerously unstable, therefore Seaford signal box was demolished in February 2002 with the remaining Platform 1. Only Platform 2 remains in operation now. Platform 1 is still visible but the tracks were removed in 1975.[2]

Service

As of May 2011 the typical off-peak service is two trains per hour to Brighton with direct trains to and from London Victoria at peak hours.[3]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Bishopstone   Southern
Seaford Branch Line		   Terminus

References

  1. ↑ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald, ed. Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 17A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
  2. ↑ Leigh, Chris (12 January 2011). "Above their station: Bishopstone". Rail Magazine (661). Bauer Media Group. pp. 61–62.
  3. ↑ "Rail Timetable Table 189" (PDF). Network Rail. May 2011.

Coordinates: 50°46′23″N 0°06′00″E / 50.773°N 0.100°E / 50.773; 0.100

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