Southease Railway Station
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. The station was renamed Southease on 12 May 1980.
There was a racecourse between the railway line and the River Ouse from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
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:
Connections with services to Gatwick Airport and London Victoria can be made by changing at Lewes.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Gallery
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The southbound platform
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Looking north from the footbridge
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1986). Southern Main Lines – Haywards Heath to Seaford. Middleton Press. p. not cited. ISBN 0-906520-28-2.
- ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 215. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
- ^ "A history of Southease" (PDF). Southease Parish Newsletter. October 2006. Archived from the original on 10 May 2008.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ 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