Balcombe railway station
Balcombe Southern | |
|---|---|
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | BAB |
| Classification | DfT category E |
| History | |
| Opened | 12 July 1841 |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  0.152 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.180 million |
| 2020/21 |  49,106 |
| 2021/22 | 0.124 million |
| 2022/23 | 0.163 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Balcombe railway station is on the
Thameslink
.
History
The original station was opened in July 1841 by the
London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. The station was resited to its present position in 1848 or 1849.[1]
The station became part of the
nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways
.
Services
All services at Balcombe are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]
- 2 tph to Bedford via London Bridge
- 2 tph to Brighton
On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction and northbound services run to Cambridge instead of Bedford.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
|
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thameslink | ||||
References
- ISBN 0-7134-1389-1.) p.22.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ Table 184 National Rail timetable, December 2022
- OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. OCLC 22311137.
- Station on navigable O.S. map
External links
51°03′22″N 0°08′15″W / 51.05611°N 0.13750°W
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Balcombe railway station.
- Train times and station information for Balcombe railway station from National Rail