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The platforms, looking south

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.

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, 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]

Infrastructure

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.

Services

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.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Southern

Gallery

  • The southbound platform
    The southbound platform
  • Looking north from the footbridge
    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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ Table 189 National Rail timetable, December 2022

External links

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