Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station serving the town of

Portslade-by-Sea Portslade is a western suburb of the city of Brighton and Hove, England. Portslade Village, the original settlement a mile inland to the north, was built up in the 16th century. The arrival of the railway from Brighton in 1840 encouraged rapid de ...

in East Sussex, England, but located on the western fringes of the village of

Aldrington Aldrington is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove, previously part of the old borough of Hove. For centuries it was meadow land along the English Channel stretching west from the old village of Hove to the old mouth of the River Adur, and i ...

(a part commonly known as 'West Hove'). It is down the line from Brighton.

Services

Off-peak, all services at Portslade are operated by Southern using and EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to via * 2 tph to (1 of these run calls at all stations and 1 does not stop at ) * 1 tph to * 1 tph to * 2 tph to During the peak hours and on Saturdays, the service between London Victoria and Littlehampton is increased to 2 tph. There are also a number of peak hour

Thameslink Thameslink is a 24-hour main-line route in the British railway system, running from , , , and via central London to Sutton, , , Rainham, , , , and . The network opened as a through service in 1988, with severe overcrowding by 1998, carrying ...

operated services between Littlehampton and .

Future developments

The

Thameslink Programme The Thameslink Programme, originally Thameslink 2000, was a £6billion project in south-east England to upgrade and expand the Thameslink rail network to provide new and longer trains between a wider range of stations to the north and to the ...

contains proposals to extend the Thameslink network to various additional routes in southern England; one of these would be the section of the West Coastway line between Hove and Littlehampton, with services running via the Cliftonville Curve from the Brighton Main Line. This will see services that currently terminate at London Bridge continuing through Central London and north wards via the

Midland Main Line The Midland Main Line is a major railway line in England from London to Nottingham and Sheffield in the Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras station via Leicester, Derby/Nottingham and Chesterfield in the East Midlands ...

or East Coast Main Line to destinations such as Luton or Cambridge. This however is not imminent, a Department for Transport whitepaper states only that "the Thameslink Programme will be completed by the end of 2015" and that "interim outputs will be delivered by the end of 2011".

Gallery

File:Portslade Station 11.jpg, Southern

EMU The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus '' Dromaius''. The emu ...

377437 arriving with the 1300 Brighton-Littlehampton service on 17 February 2007 File:Portslade Station 3.jpg, Side view of the main station building on the Down platform; the side entrance is through the wall on the left File:Portslade Station 4.jpg, The single-storey building on the Up platform, no longer in use, and the Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine File:Portslade Station 5.jpg, Platform-side view of the main building from rail height, standing on the adjacent level crossing File:Portslade Station 7.jpg,

South West Trains Stagecoach South Western Trains Limited, trading as South West Trains (SWT), was an English train operating company owned by Stagecoach, which operated the South Western franchise between February 1996 and August 2017. SWT operated the majorit ...

DMU 170305 passes through the Down platform with the 1257 Brighton-Reading service on 17 February 2007 File:Portslade Station 9.jpg, South West Trains

450101 passes through the Up platform with the 1124 Basingstoke-Brighton service on 17 February 2007

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, Coastway West=y, Mainline West=y, FCC None=y, SE None=y Railway stations in Brighton and Hove DfT Category D stations Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1857 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove Grade II listed railway stations 1857 establishments in England

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