Seaford railway station (England) explained

Seaford (Sussex)
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Seaford, Lewes
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Owned:Network Rail
Manager:Southern
Platforms:1 (formerly 2)
Code:SEF
Classification:DfT category D
Pregroup:LB&SCR
Postgroup:Southern Railway
Years:1 June 1864
Events:Opened
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail & Road

Seaford railway station is in Seaford, East Sussex, England. It is the terminus of the Seaford branch line of the East Coastway line, 58chain77chain measured from .[1] The line to the station has been reduced to a single track and only one platform remains in use (previously two), though it is still numbered platform 2. Platform 1 is still visible but the track has been removed.

Train services from the station are provided by Southern.

The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway opened Seaford station on 1 June 1864. It was designed as a through station for a proposed extension to that was never built.

A working model of Seaford Station as it appeared in the 1920s is displayed at Seaford Museum.

Signal box

At the end of the station, there was a signal box that was used up until the mid-1980s. The box was damaged by the salt air coming from the nearby sea and the box was dangerously unstable, therefore Seaford signal box was demolished in February 2002.[2]

Services

the typical off-peak service pattern is two trains per hour to via, seven days a week.[3] Services are operated by Class 377s.

External links

50.773°N 0.1°W

Notes and References

  1. Book: Yonge, John . Jacobs . Gerald . Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL . 3rd . November 2008 . 1994 . Trackmaps . Bradford on Avon . 978-0-9549866-4-3 . map 17A .
  2. News: Leigh . Chris . Above their station: Bishopstone . . 661 . . 61–62 . 12 January 2011.
  3. Web site: Revised timetable . Southern. August 2021.