Fishbourne railway station explained

Fishbourne
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Fishbourne, Chichester
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:Southern
Platforms:2
Code:FSB
Classification:DfT category F1
Years:1 April 1906
Events:Opened
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Fishbourne railway station serves the village of Fishbourne, West Sussex, England. It is from .[1]

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) opened the station at Fishbourne on 1 April 1906.[2] It is located on the West Coastway Line that runs between Brighton and Southampton. The station is roughly half a mile walk from Fishbourne Roman Palace. Just east of this station at Fishbourne Crossing the single track veered off for the branch line between Chichester and Midhurst.

Facilities

Fishbourne station is unstaffed and tickets must be purchased from the self-service ticket machine at the station entrance. The station has seated areas and passenger help points on both platforms.

Step-free access is available to both platforms at the station.[3]

Services

All services at Fishbourne are operated by Southern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

Additional services, including trains to and from via call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, eastbound services run to and from Brighton instead of London Victoria.

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 20D .
  2. Book: The Fishbourne Book. 8 October 2023. Hand. M.. Fishbourne. Fishbourne Book Group. 978-0-86260-565-0.
  3. Web site: Fishbourne station information. Southern. 1 January 2021.