London Road (Brighton) railway station

London Road (Brighton)
Location
Place	Brighton
Local authority	Brighton & Hove
Grid reference	TQ313057
Operations
Station code	LRB
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*
2004/05	0.354 million
2005/06	0.411 million
2006/07	0.450 million
2007/08	0.480 million
2008/09	0.473 million
2009/10	0.463 million
2010/11	0.469 million
2011/12	0.473 million
2012/13	0.497 million
2013/14	0.494 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1877 (1877)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at London Road (Brighton) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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London Road (Brighton) Railway Station is in Brighton, East Sussex, England. Train services from the station are provided by Southern, and the station is on the East Coastway Line.

History

London Road station was designed by David Mocatta (the designer of Brighton Station) and opened on 1 October 1877, following housing development in the surrounding area. It was originally to be called Ditchling Rise, a more accurate name as London Road is a little way away. Until the branch closed in 1971, trains to Kemptown diverged from the Brighton – Lewes line here.

The Lewes-side platform building was demolished in the early 1980s. The station had a substantial refurbishment at the end of 2004 with some add on parts to the original building demolished. The station has also been home to the Brighton Model Railway Club since 1971.

Services

The typical off-peak service is:

• 4tph (trains per hour) to Brighton
• 2tph to Seaford
• 1tph to Ore via Eastbourne and Hastings
• 1tph to Lewes

The station ticket office is open from 0645 to 1330 hours, Mondays to Saturdays. There are also self-service ticket machines on each platform, accepting cash and credit/debit cards.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Brighton		Southern East Coastway Line		Moulsecoomb
	Disused railways
Brighton		British Railways Kemp Town Branch		Lewes Road

Gallery

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  Westward view of the platforms. The footbridge is primarily a public right of way; the station has its own subway for passenger use (the dark-roofed lean-to on Platform 1 is its entrance)

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  View of the platform side of the main (Platform 1) station building, showing EMU 377415 leaving on the 1058 Seaford-Brighton service. The arched roofs of Brighton station can be seen in the top left corner

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  A Class 377 EMU entering Ditchling Road tunnel, at the eastern end of the station, with the 1120 Brighton-Lewes service on 3 March 2007

See also

• Transport in Brighton
• History of Brighton – with reference to the Second World War section describing the bombing of the London Road railway viaduct.

External links

• Brighton Model Railway Club

• Train times and station information for London Road (Brighton) railway station from National Rail