Southease railway station explained

Southease
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Southease, Lewes
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:Southern
Platforms:2
Code:SEE
Classification:DfT category F2
Pregroup:LB&SCR
Postgroup:Southern Railway
Years1:1 September 1906
Events1:Opened as Southease and Rodmell Halt
Years2:12 May 1980
Events2:Renamed Southease
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Southease railway station is located 0.5miles east of the village of Southease in East Sussex, England. It is on the Seaford branch of the East Coastway Line, 53chain40chain measured from via Redhill.[1] The station is surrounded by agricultural land. The South Downs Way crosses the Seaford Branch here.

History

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway opened the station on 1 September 1906 as Southease and Rodmell Halt, to serve two villages in the Ouse Valley; Southease, 0.5miles to the west, and the slightly larger Rodmell, more than away.[2] The station was renamed Southease on 12 May 1980.[3]

There was a racecourse between the railway line and the River Ouse from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.[4]

Infrastructure

The station is unmanned and has two platforms, each with a PERTIS machine. A self-service ticket machine was also installed in 2016. There is a level crossing immediately north of the station leading to Itford Farm and the A26 road. The crossing is a user-controlled crossing with barriers which can be raised or lowered by road users. There is a pedestrian gate for walkers and cyclists. There is also a footbridge over the line.

Services

All services at Southease 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.

External links

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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. Book: Mitchell . Vic . Smith . Keith . 1986 . Southern Main Lines – Haywards Heath to Seaford . Middleton Press . 0-906520-28-2 . not cited.
  3. Book: Butt, R.V.J. . The Directory of Railway Stations . 1995 . Patrick Stephens Ltd . Yeovil . 1-85260-508-1 . R508 . 215 .
  4. News: A history of Southease . Southease Parish Newsletter . October 2006 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20080510190804/http://southeasevillage.info/Parish%20Newsletter%20October%202006%20pdf.pdf . 10 May 2008 .