Cooksbridge railway station serves the village of Cooksbridge in

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, England. It is on the East Coastway Line, from via . Train services are provided by Southern. The station is unstaffed. A

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ticket machine was installed in 2008 on both the London-bound and the Lewes-bound platform.

History

Cooksbridge lies on the

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"cut-off" line between Keymer Junction, near Wivelsfield on the

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, and

Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. The town is the administrative centre of the wider Lewes (district), district of the same name. It lies on the River Ouse, Sussex, River Ouse at the point where the river cuts through the Sou ...

. The erstwhile ''Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway'' were authorised to build the line in 1845; the LBSCR purchased it and opened the link on 1 October 1847. The station opened as Cook's Bridge on the same date. The first station master was Richard Strevett who stayed until promoted to Hailsham on 17 August 1861. This replacement (George Bennett) lasted only a few weeks, arriving on 16 August 1861 and returning to his old job (porter at Brighton) on 6 September 1861. His replacement, Alfred Paver, was appointed on 13 September 1861. The initial services were very sparse. The May 1848 timetable shows Up Trains to London at 8.30am and 5.50pm and a London arrivals at 9am. (Afternoon passengers were directed to travel via Lewes on the 5.50pm train). During May 2020, Platform 1 was extended to accommodate 8 coach trains, as opposed to a previous 6.

Services

All services at Cooksbridge are operated by Southern using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to On Sundays, the service is still hourly, but with Eastbourne trains continuing to

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via

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Prior to December 2019, the station was served by a limited weekday service only with no weekend services. In December 2019, a regular hourly service was introduced on weekdays and Saturdays, followed by an hourly Sunday service in May 2020.

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