Southease railway station

1⁄2 mile (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.

History

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, 1⁄2 mile (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]

Infrastructure

The station is unstaffed 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.

Services

All services at Southease are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: ^[5]

• 1 tph to Brighton via Lewes
• 1 tph to Seaford

Connections with services to Gatwick Airport and London Victoria can be made by changing at Lewes.

Southease
The platforms at Southease, looking north
General information
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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Lewes		Southern Seaford Branch Line		Newhaven Town

Gallery

• 
  The southbound platform
• 
  Looking north from the footbridge

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. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1986). Southern Main Lines – Haywards Heath to Seaford. Middleton Press. p. not cited. ISBN   0-906520-28-2.
3. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 215. ISBN   1-85260-508-1. R508.
4. "A history of Southease" (PDF). Southease Parish Newsletter. October 2006. Archived from the original on 10 May 2008.
5. Table 189 National Rail timetable, December 2022

External links

• Train times and station information for Southease railway station from National Rail
• Station Layout
• Southease village website
• TQ4305 : Southease Station Occupational Crossing at geograph.org.uk

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