Balcombe railway station

For the station in Melbourne, Australia once known as Balcombe, see Mentone railway station.

Balcombe

Location
Place	Balcombe
Local authority	District of Mid Sussex
Grid reference	TQ306301
Operations
Station code	BAB
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.118 million
2011/12	0.122 million
2012/13	0.124 million
2013/14	0.125 million
2014/15	0.129 million
History
Key dates	Opened 12 July 1841 (12 July 1841)
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Balcombe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Balcombe Station in 1961

Balcombe railway station serves the village of Balcombe in West Sussex, England. It is on the Brighton Main Line and Thameslink 17 miles (27 km) north of Brighton. Train services are primarily provided by Thameslink, with a few Southern services during the peaks, and the latter company operates the station, which has a manned ticket office on the southbound platform, whilst a PERTIS ticket machine is also located on the southbound platform.

History

The original station was opened in July 1841 by the London and Brighton Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. The station was resited to its present position in 1848 or 1849.^[1]

The station became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is one train per hour to Brighton via Burgess Hill and one train per hour to London Bridge via Gatwick Airport and East Croydon (some peak services run to London Victoria or Bedford). On Sundays all services run to London Victoria rather than London Bridge.

Trains to and from London Bridge and Bedford are operated by Thameslink, while services to and from London Victoria are operated by Southern.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Three Bridges (Occasionally Gatwick Airport or Horley)		Southern Brighton Main Line		Haywards Heath
Three Bridges (Occasionally Gatwick Airport or Horley)		Thameslink Thameslink		Haywards Heath

There is also one service per weekday on the West Coastway Line to Littlehampton (from London) but no return service. On the East Coastway Line, there are two services to London from Eastbourne (one of which runs from Hastings via Eastbourne) but no return service.

References

↑ Howard Turner, J.T. (1978). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway, Vol.2 Establishment and Growth=Batsford. London, England. ISBN 0-7134-1389-1. p.22.

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
Station on navigable O.S. map

Gallery

View of the main station building and Down (southbound) platform
Old, now disused toilet block on the Down platform
The main building, containing ticket office and waiting area
Waiting shelter with chimney, on Up (northbound) platform
Unidentified Southern Class 377 EMU passes through non-stop on a northbound service
View across the station from the road overbridge at the southern end

External links

Coordinates: 51°03′22″N 0°08′15″W / 51.05611°N 0.13750°W / 51.05611; -0.13750

Train times and station information for Balcombe railway station from National Rail

Railway stations in West Sussex

London to Brighton:
Brighton Main Line

Three Bridges to Ford via Horsham:
Arun Valley Line

London to Horsham via Dorking:

Warnham

Southampton & Portsmouth to Brighton:
Coastway West

Bognor Regis branch:

Bognor Regis

Littlehampton branch:

Littlehampton

London to East Grinstead:

East Grinstead

Heritage railway stations (West Sussex)

Bluebell Railway:

Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes

Thameslink and Great Northern routes serving this station

Thameslink Bedford to Brighton	Bedford (Wixams planned) Flitwick Harlington Leagrave Luton Luton Airport Parkway Harpenden St Albans City West Hampstead Thameslink St Pancras International Farringdon City Thameslink London Blackfriars Elephant & Castle Loughborough Junction Herne Hill Tulse Hill London Bridge East Croydon Redhill Gatwick Airport Three Bridges Balcombe Haywards Heath Wivelsfield Burgess Hill Hassocks Preston Park Brighton

Southern routes serving this station

Brighton Main Line	London Victoria Clapham Junction London Bridge East Croydon Purley Redhill Horley Gatwick Airport Three Bridges Balcombe Haywards Heath Wivelsfield Burgess Hill Hassocks Preston Park Brighton

Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.

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