General information | |||||
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Location | Southease, Lewes England | ||||
Grid reference | TQ430054 | ||||
Managed by | Southern | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | SEE | ||||
Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
History | |||||
Pre-grouping | LB&SCR | ||||
Post-grouping | Southern Railway | ||||
Key dates | |||||
1 September 1906 | Opened as Southease and Rodmell Halt | ||||
12 May 1980 | Renamed Southease | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2019/20 | 22,052 | ||||
2020/21 | 10,302 | ||||
2021/22 | 23,564 | ||||
2022/23 | 23,206 | ||||
2023/24 | 25,064 | ||||
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Southease railway station is located 0.5 miles (800 m) east of the village of Southease in East Sussex,England. It is on the Seaford branch of the East Coastway Line,53 miles 40 chains (86.1 km) measured from London Bridge via Redhill. [1] The station is surrounded by agricultural land. The South Downs Way crosses the Seaford Branch here.
The London,Brighton and South Coast Railway opened the station on 1 September 1906 as Southease and Rodmell Halt,to serve two villages in the Ouse Valley;Southease,0.5 miles (800 m) to the west,and the slightly larger Rodmell,more than 1 mile (1.6 km) away. [2] The station was renamed Southease on 12 May 1980. [3]
There was a racecourse between the railway line and the River Ouse from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. [4]
The station is unmanned and has two platforms,each with a PERTIS machine. A self-service ticket machine was also installed in 2016. There is a level crossing immediately north of the station leading to Itford Farm and the A26 road. The crossing is a user-controlled crossing with barriers which can be raised or lowered by road users. There is a pedestrian gate for walkers and cyclists. There is also a footbridge over the line.
All services at Southease are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [5]
Connections with services to Gatwick Airport and London Victoria can be made by changing at Lewes.
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Angmering is a railway station on the West Coastway Line,on the border of Angmering and East Preston,West Sussex in the district of Arun. It was opened in 1846. The station itself is situated about 0.6 miles (1 km) away from the centre of Angmering village,and is 15 miles 44 chains (25.0 km) down the line from Brighton. Buses depart for Angmering village hourly,or walking to the village takes about 20 minutes. The station is located near the local secondary school The Angmering School,some of the students of which use the station daily to travel to and from school. Angmering station is also designed to be used by the residents of the nearby villages of Rustington and East Preston,with some of the station's signage actually reading 'Angmering for Rustington and East Preston'.
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