Durrington-on-Sea railway station

Durrington-on-Sea railway station is in Goring, a suburb of Worthing in the county of West Sussex. It is 12 miles 13 chains (19.6 km) down the line from Brighton. The station is operated by Southern.

Durrington-on-Sea
Location
PlaceGoring
Local authorityWorthing, West Sussex
Grid referenceTQ120031
Operations
Station codeDUR
Managed bySouthern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.649 million
2015/16 0.665 million
2016/17 0.541 million
2017/18 0.594 million
2018/19 0.646 million
History
Key datesOpened 4 July 1937[1] (4 July 1937[1])
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Durrington-on-Sea from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Durrington-on-Sea railway station lies about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) south of the Worthing suburb of Durrington and is situated extremely close to the headquarters of West Sussex Primary Care NHS Trust and a large HM Revenue and Customs office.

It was designed in the Modernist style by the architect to the Southern Railway, James Robb Scott[2] and opened on 4 July 1937.[3] The architecture and design of station has drawn criticism from locals as the "grimmest stop in the South" although this might well be because of the area surrounding it which is for sure grim. Owners (Network Rail) and operator (Southern), refute claims of problems and cite lack of central government funding to rebuild stations.[1] The entrance to the westbound platform is hard to find at first as there is only one way in which is a thin footpath easy to miss. Facilities at the station are limited - there is no enclosed waiting room or toilets.

The brick structure on top of the main station building, used to house a diesel generator as backup to power the train lines. It is only accessible via a small ladder from the roof. The structure now sits empty.

The station is staffed at the following times: Monday-Friday 0620-1645, Saturday 0720-1400, and Sunday 0810-1645.

Accessibility

There is step free access available from the street outside the main entrance to platform 1 (for services to London and Brighton) is available via the side gate. There is a footbridge with steps to platform 2 (services to Littlehampton and Portsmouth). Entrance to the ticket office is by steps from the street, although step-free access is possible via platform 1. In September 2008, the rear entrance direct to platform 2 was adapted for step free access.

Services

Off-peak, all services at Durrington-on-Sea are operated by Southern. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4]

During the peak periods, there are a small number of trains between Littlehampton, London Bridge and Bedford, operated by Thameslink.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Southern
Thameslink
Bedford to Littlehampton
Peak Hours Only

References
  1. "The grimmest stop in the South" - The Argus - Paul Holden - 12 December 2006
  2. Wright, Daniel (4 March 2015). "Modernism in Miniature". The Beauty of Transport. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  3. "Worthing's New Railway Station". Worthing Gazette. England. 7 July 1937. Retrieved 6 July 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "Timetable 24: Littlehampton and Worthing to Brighton and London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.

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