Moulsecoomb railway station serves

Moulsecoomb Moulsecoomb () is a suburb of Brighton, Sussex, England, on the northeast side around Lewes Road, between Coldean and Bevendean, north of the seafront. The eastern edge adjoins Falmer Hill on the South Downs. It is often divided into smaller ...

and

Hollingdean Hollingdean is a district in the city of Brighton & Hove. The Ward is called Hollingdean and Stanmer with a population of 15,681 at the 2011 Census. Hollingdean is in effect the older part of Hollingbury. It is bounded by Ditchling Road to the w ...

, both suburbs of

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. Train services from the station are provided by

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, and the station is on the East Coastway Line down the line from . The station was opened in May 1980 — the first completely new station on the then Southern Region since the

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. It is located adjacent to the Moulsecoomb campus of the

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. The station has separate entrances to each platform; these are connected by a footbridge which also serves as a

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. The entrance to Platform 1 (the westbound platform) is via a set of steps from Queensdown School Road, a steeply sloping

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off the main Lewes Road. Platform 2 is reached from a path leading from the end of Crespin Way, another cul-de-sac at the eastern edge of the Hollingdean estate.

Services

All services at Moulsecoomb are operated by

usually using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 3 tph to * 2 tph to * 1 tph to During the peak hours, a number of additional services between Brighton, and also call at the station.

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, Coastway East=y, FCC None=y, SE None=y Railway stations in Brighton and Hove Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1980 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway DfT Category E stations

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