Chichester_railway_station

Chichester railway station

Chichester railway station

Railway station in Chichester, West Sussex, England

This article is about the station in West Sussex. For the Metro station in Tyne and Wear, see Chichester Metro station.

Chichester railway station is a railway station in the city of Chichester in West Sussex, England. It is 28 miles 51 chains (28.64 miles, 46.09 km) from Brighton.[2]

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The station is located on the Brighton to Portsmouth line of the LBSCR. Passenger services are operated under the brand name West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton. The station and all passenger services are operated by Southern.

The station opened in 1846 and by the 1920s was listed in the top ten most prestigious Southern Railway stations due to royal use for Goodwood Racecourse race days. By the 1950s the station had become dilapidated and was demolished and replaced with the modern station, which re-opened in 1961.[3]

Station entrance
A 1906 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (upper left) railways in the vicinity of Chichester

There used to be a branch line north to Midhurst and an additional two platforms which were up and down bay platforms at the west end of the station on the north side. An additional bay platform on the south side remains in situ but is disused.

Services

Services at Chichester are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off peak service in trains per hour is:[4]

On Sunday, the services to London Victoria and Southampton Central each reduce to 1 tph, the service to Portsmouth & Southsea reduces to 2 tph (although both continue to Portsmouth Harbour), and the service to Brighton reduces to 2 tph, with none of these trains running via Littlehampton.

Until May 2022, Great Western Railway operated limited services between Brighton, Portsmouth Harbour and Bristol Temple Meads that called at Chichester.[5][6][7]

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References

  1. [1]
    Southern Region Record by R.H.Clark
  2. [2]
    Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 20D. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
  3. [3]
    "The Novium Museum - Chichester Train Station".
  4. [4]
    Table 123, 165, 186, 188 National Rail timetable, December 2022
  5. [5]
    Great Western Railway to terminate Brighton services Rail issue 952 9 March 2022 page 22
  6. [6]
    Great Western Railway set to axe Brighton service The Argus 21 April 2022
  7. [7]
    Great Western Railway services calling at Chichester on 13 May 2022 Realtime Trains

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