East Worthing railway station

East Worthing railway station is an unstaffed railway station in Worthing in the county of West Sussex. It is 9 miles 55 chains (15.6 km) down the line from Brighton. The station is operated by Southern.

East Worthing
East Worthing station, looking towards Brighton (January 2006)
Location
Place	Worthing
Local authority	Worthing
Grid reference	TQ159037
Operations
Station code	EWR
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.389 million
2015/16	0.428 million
2016/17	0.345 million
2017/18	0.361 million
2018/19	0.424 million
History
3 September 1905	Opened (Ham Bridge Halt)
23 May 1949	Renamed (East Worthing Halt)
5 May 1969	Renamed (East Worthing)
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at East Worthing from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Built to serve the growing settlement at East Worthing, the station was opened in 1905 as Ham Bridge Halt, taking the name of the road bridge at the eastern end.[1]

The station has ticket issuing facilities through one Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine on the eastbound platform. A Permit to travel machine is on the westbound platform. The station has one glass and metal shelter on each platform. In the early 1990s a small wooden ticket office building on the eastbound platform was demolished.

The platforms can only accommodate 4-coach trains. Until 2014 they were 2.25 m (7 ft 5 in) wide, preventing the use of access ramps for disabled passengers; but in January of that year work began to widen them to 3.75 m (12.3 ft).[2]