Amberley railway station
Amberley Southern | |
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Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | AMY |
Classification | DfT category F2 |
History | |
Opened | 3 August 1863 |
Original company | London, Brighton and South Coast Railway |
Pre-grouping | London, Brighton and South Coast Railway |
Post-grouping | Southern Railway (UK) |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 60,296 |
2019/20 | 59,806 |
2020/21 | 17,084 |
2021/22 | 44,318 |
2022/23 | 60,580 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Amberley railway station is a railway station in
It is 54 miles 62 chains (88.2 km) down the line from
History
Opened by the
The station had two platforms connected with a footbridge, a signalbox (now closed) is situated on Platform 2, under the station canopy. There was a goods yard with connections into a "chalk and lime works" to the south of the station and "Amberley Lime Works", now the
The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939.[4]
The station then passed on to the
When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.
Services
All services at Amberley are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[6]
- 1 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
- 1 tph to Bognor Regis
On Sundays, there is also an hourly service in each direction, but with southbound trains dividing at Barnham before travelling to Portsmouth Harbour and Bognor Regis.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Arun Valley Line |
References
- ^ Quick 2022, p. 50.
- ^ "Amberley station on OS 25 inch map Sussex L.6 (Amberley)". National Library of Scotland. 1897. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ^ The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 21.
- ^ McRae 1997, p. 33.
- ^ McRae 1998, p. 59.
- ^ Table 186 National Rail timetable, December 2022
Bibliography
- McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
- McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
- Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original(PDF) on 25 November 2022.
- The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
Further reading
- OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
External links
- Train times and station information for Amberley railway station from National Rail
- Station on navigable O.S. map
- Picture of Amberley Signal Box situated on the station
- Amberley railway station in the 1866 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain & Ireland