Newhaven Town railway station explained

Newhaven Town
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Newhaven, Lewes
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:Southern
Platforms:2
Code:NVN
Classification:DfT category E
Pregroup:LB&SCR
Postgroup:Southern Railway
Opened:8 December 1847
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Newhaven Town railway station is the main station serving Newhaven, East Sussex, England, the other being . A third station,, formally closed in October 2020,[1] but had not had a train service since 2006.

The station has two platforms, both with Permit to Travel Machines and trains are operated by Southern. It is on the Seaford Branch of the East Coastway Line, 56chain25chain measured from .[2]

The station is adjacent to the passenger terminal for the Port of Newhaven which has regular ferry sailings to Dieppe in France. Foot passengers should alight here and not at Newhaven Harbour railway station, which is for the harbour industrial estate and freight terminal.

Services

All services at Newhaven Town are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

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

Connections with services to and can be made by changing at Lewes.

Motive power depot

The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened an engine shed at the station in 1877. British Railways closed it in 1963 and the building is now a private workshop.

External links

50.795°N 0.055°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Newhaven Marine 'ghost station' finally closes . The Argus . 23 October 2020.
  2. 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 .