Bexhill railway station serves

Bexhill-on-Sea Bexhill-on-Sea (often shortened to Bexhill) is a seaside town and civil parish in the Rother District in the county of East Sussex in South East England. It is located along the Sussex Coast and between the towns of Hastings, England, Hastings ...

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, England. It is on the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southern.

History

Bexhill Station is the third station on this site. The present station was opened in June 1902 and replaced a previous station positioned on both sides of the track across the top of Devonshire Road. The new station had exceptionally long platforms, approximately . The station was known as Bexhill Central after July 1923, when the Southern Railway was formed. This was because the former SECR establishment in Terminus Road took was also Bexhill. Bexhill Central reverted to Bexhill sometime after the SECR establishment closed in June 1964. The previous stations on this site were the first station of 1847 which was sited west of the present down platform. The second station was on the up and down sides across the top of Station Square, now Devonshire Square.

Description

The station is a

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building, and a restoration project to the platform canopies and ticket office area was completed in the summer of 2008. The station is accredited as part of the Department for Transport's Secure Stations scheme, with a digital CCTV system in place. It is staffed during the daytime but not late in the evenings. The station has ticket barrier access only, prior to this the station was often unstaffed.

Services

All services at Bexhill are operated by Southern using

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and

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to (semi-fast) * 1 tph to (stopping) * 2 tph to * 1 tph to Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

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