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