East Grinstead railway station
East Grinstead Southern | |
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Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | EGR |
Classification | DfT category C1 |
Key dates | |
1 August 1882 | Present station opened as East Grinstead Low Level |
1970 | Renamed East Grinstead and station rebuilt |
2013 | Station rebuilt again and Bluebell Railway restores connection to station |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 1.587 million |
2019/20 | 1.470 million |
2020/21 | 0.257 million |
2021/22 | 0.711 million |
2022/23 | 0.889 million |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
East Grinstead railway station is one of the two southern termini of the
The station was formerly divided into two levels: the higher-level platforms serving the
Only the lower-level platforms remain open today, the high level having closed in 1967 with the Three Bridges to Ashurst Junction line as part of the closure programme proposed by the
Low Level
The current East Grinstead station is the fourth to have been constructed in the town. Prior to the arrival of the railway, the nearest stations were 6 miles (9.7 km) away at
Early stations
1855 station
The first station to serve East Grinstead was built by the East Grinstead Railway as the terminus of its 6-mile-67-chain (11.0-kilometre) single-track line from Three Bridges.[3] It was opened on 9 July 1855[4][3][5][6][7] in Swan Mead off the London Road, well-situated for the town centre,[8][9][10] with the first train out at 12:12 pm.[11][12] Constructed at a cost of £3,000, the station comprised a sandstone main building which survives to this day, as well as timber goods and engine sheds with slate roofs.[8][13][14][15][16] The goods facilities were described in a specification as being equal to those at Hailsham railway station.[8] There were probably two platform faces and the goods yard was on the up side.[10] The first stationmaster was a Peter Nesbitt;[8] he remained in post until his death on 10 September 1864.[17] The initial passenger service consisted of six trains each way daily and two on Sundays; trains started and finished at East Grinstead.[8][10][12] The service appears to have exceeded expectations as the service increased to nine each way on weekdays, with three on Sundays.[10][12] So well-patronised were the Sunday services that Reverend Woodington, the curate of East Grinstead, regularly visited the station to distribute religious tracts requesting passengers to "listen to the church bells instead of the railway bells."[12]
The journey time to Three Bridges was 20 minutes and the first train departed at 6:55 am for arrival in London at 9:15 am after a 43-minute wait at Three Bridges for a connecting service via the Brighton main line.[8] The fastest time to London was 11⁄4 hours achieved by the 4:00 pm down train which was first-class only.[18] As from September 1855, an additional mid-afternoon train was provided each way.[19] This was increased to nine each way by 1862.[20] The rail fare from East Grinstead to London was 6s first class and 3s third class.[19] The line was operated from its outset by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway for an annual rental of £2,000 until January 1865, when it purchased the East Grinstead Railway.[21][6][22][23][24]
1866 station
In August 1862 parliamentary approval was obtained for the 13.5-mile (21.7 km) extension of the line to
The station building straddled the double track with basements at platform level which contained the stationmaster's office and porter's room.[28] A large brick goods shed replaced the previous timber structure, whilst the site of the old station became a goods yard.[28] The new station was opened for traffic on 1 October 1866,[4][5][30][34][35][36] and the old one closed the same day.[28] The initial passenger service was poor, with only six trains each way and the withdrawal of three East Grinstead to Three Bridges services.[28] Journey time to Tunbridge Wells was just under an hour.[37] In 1869 annual season tickets to London were £32 first class and £24 second class, while returns were 9s 6d first, 7s 6d second and 4s 8d third.[38]
1882 rebuilding
A third re-modelling of East Grinstead station was made necessary by the arrival in the town of two lines: the
The low level station was set at a right-angle to the high level and it had two platforms to serve the L&EG and CO&EG.
The main station building was built in the architectural style of other stations on the L&EG: an upper timber storey with plaster infill which was later covered with hung tiles with impressed flower patterns.[13] The architect was Thomas Myres, the inspiration behind what was termed the Queen Anne School, who prepared the design of the other stations on the L&EG, as well as those on the Chichester to Midhurst and Eridge to Polegate branches.[56][57][58][59][60] It was a substantial structure with refreshment rooms on both levels, with that on the low level said to house a billiards room for travellers.[61][62][63] Only passengers with valid tickets and railway staff had access to the rooms, which were licensed to sell alcohol and managed by the former owner of East Grinstead's Crown Hotel.[64] The East Grinstead Parish Magazine complained of the distance from the new stations to the town and hoped that new roads would be built to connect it and the approaches improved.[51] An 1885 publication about East Grinstead described the station as "very commodious and convenient" and "a pleasing object" with "embankments on the outside planted with shrubs and flowers".[40]
It is thought that an
1970 rebuilding
From 1955, the low level station fell into virtual disuse with most passengers using the high level station.[71][72][73] The L&EG closed on 16 March 1958 and for a short time afterwards a faster service to Brighton via Three Bridges ran which reached the coastal town in 45 minutes after leaving East Grinstead.[74][75][76] The last train on the L&EG ran on 16 March 1958 after which very few trains used the down platform and none departed from the up.[77][78] The Oxted line timetable was revised as from 6 January 1964 so that, with a few exceptions, the regular services from Victoria terminated at the low-level platforms.[79] After the closure of the Three Bridges-Ashurst Junction line on 2 January 1967,[80][81] all London trains used the low level with the up platform used for services during busy periods, leaving the down platform to deal with both arrivals and departures.[77][82][83]
Demolition works on the 1882 building started in February 1970 and were complete by November 1971; the replacement single-storey prefabricated CLASP structure opened in 1972 immediately south of the old building.[77][84][72][85][46] Contractors for the demolition and reconstruction were J. Longley of Crawley.[77] The smaller modern construction which reflected the station's new status as the terminus of a branch line from Oxted.[86] Several fittings from the old station, including cast-iron pillars and brackets, valancing, gas lamps, nameboards and coloured glass, were sold to a Californian restaurant owner, Robert Freeman.[77] The sidings in the low level goods yard remained until their removal in 1987.[77] Following the closure of the high level station, the "Low Level" suffix was no longer used.[citation needed] A concrete footbridge was erected in 1970 to link the two platforms as the demolition of the high level station had removed the means of access to the up platform.[68] The Oxted line was electrified following works between May 1986 and October 1987 and the track layout in the station was modified.[87][88][83] The platforms were also lengthened to take eight-car trains.[88]
2013 rebuilding
By September 2012, a new station building costing £2.1 million had been erected next to the existing structure which was scheduled for demolition in March 2013 once the new building and expanded car park became fully operational.[89] The works, which were completed as part of the Department for Transport’s National Station Improvement Programme, also included new platform waiting shelters, bicycle facilities, a new transport interchange on the site of the old building, platform lengthening to accommodate 12-car trains and the installation of a pre-fabricated single deck on the car park to increase capacity from 236 to 336 spaces.[90][91] The existing station was considered no longer fit for purpose and in need of replacement.[90] Although a grant had been applied for to cover the cost of installing a lift to Platform 1 for disabled access, this was refused by the Department for Transport on the basis that the cost would be disproportionate given the likely passenger numbers and the fact that only six trains a day would use the platform.[91]
The station first opened on 17 December 2012,[92] with the official opening taking place on 8 March 2013 in the presence of the East Grinstead Town Mayor, Liz Bennett, and the Mid Sussex MP, Nicholas Soames.[93]
Further improvements
The station gained step-free access in September 2022 when the old footbridge was replaced with a new larger footbridge and two 16-person capacity lifts.[94]
Facilities
The station has a booking hall with a ticket office and ticket machine, a kiosk, toilets, car park, bicycle storage and a taxi rank.
Services
Present day
Off-peak, all services at East Grinstead are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service is one train per hour to London Victoria via Oxted, calling at all stations as far as Sanderstead then East Croydon and Clapham Junction. During the peak hours and on weekends, this service is increased to two trains per hour.[95][96][85]
During the peak hours, there are also Thameslink operated services to London Bridge and Bedford. These services are operated using Class 700 EMUs.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Oxted Line East Grinstead Branch | Terminus | |||
Thameslink Peak Hours Only | ||||
Heritage railways | ||||
Terminus | Bluebell Railway | Kingscote | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Dormans Line and station open
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Lewes and East Grinstead Railway
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Kingscote Line and station open
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Disused railways | ||||
Grange Road Line and station closed
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Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line
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Forest Row Line and station closed
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Historical
Throughout its railway history, East Grinstead has been almost exclusively served by local services to London, Brighton, Three Bridges and Tunbridge Wells.
By 1938, eight commuter services departed East Grinstead between 6:30 am and 9:30 am on weekdays, an increase of three when compared with 1923.
In 1955, the Oxted line timetable was recast to provide an hourly service outside the peaks, supported by an intricate system of connections between them.
Motive power
Small
In the early 1950s, LMS Fairburn 2-6-4Ts were trialled on London commuter services and LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2Ts for lighter Oxted line trains.[103] In the last days of steam, BR 2-6-4Ts took up duties alongside the Fairburns until these were transferred to the London Midland Region.[103] Dieselisation came in the early 1960s when Class 207 units were introduced on Oxted line services where they remained in operation for the next 43 years.[104] On 18 June 1962, the first public diesel services started on the 7:41 am East Grinstead to London Bridge service, with the return at 5:37 pm; the formation was a 3-car set combined with a Hastings-type 6-car set.[79] Steam working continued on the London services for a further twelve months, whilst the Three Bridges line was largely operated with M7 push-pull steam services.[79] Push-pull working on the line ceased on 4 January 1964 just prior to the entry into force of a new timetable for the Oxted line from 6 January; the last push-pull service was hauled by H class No. 31263.[79][105] Electrification reached East Grinstead in 1987 with the first services commencing on Monday 5 October.[79]
Connections
Metrobus routes 84, 236, 270, 281, 291, 400, 409 and 485, and Compass Bus route 261 serve the station.[106]
Bluebell Railway
Site purchase
East Grinstead | |
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Station on heritage railway | |
General information | |
Location | East Grinstead, District of Mid Sussex England |
Grid reference | TQ387381 |
Operated by | Bluebell Railway |
Platforms | 1 |
Key dates | |
4 September 2010 | Public opening |
23 March 2013 | Opening of line to Kingscote |
The heritage
In 1991, British Rail gave the Bluebell Railway an undertaking to sell it Hill Place Viaduct as well as land for a new station at East Grinstead; each would be sold for the sum of £1.00.[115][116] On 8 September 1992, the viaduct was formally handed over to the Bluebell Extension Company.[112][117] The proposed station site, which was located just south of the existing station, had been used for carriage storage sidings since closure of the line to Sheffield Park and Lewes.[118] The site is large enough to accommodate an eight-car platform,[119] basic station facilities and the necessary track and infrastructure.[115]
Despite the understanding reached with British Rail, several attempts were made by neighbouring commercial interests to take over the site following its
Construction
Work began in May 2008 on clearing the site for the construction of a new platform.[124][119] This was completed within two days and work started in November to prepare the site for tracklaying.[124] On the night of 13 January 2009, Network Rail connected the track to the main line.[125] A network of ducts was laid to enable the station to be signalled remotely from the Kingscote signalbox.[115] Signalling will be controlled from Kingscote, although the Society will relocate an historic LB&SCR signalbox from Billingshurst.[126]
To mark an open day on 17 January 2009, former South West Trains
By July 2009, service pipes and a permanent messing facility had been installed on the site.[125] Construction on the back wall of the platform began on 10 August 2009.[125] All utilities and cabling had to be routed under or through the platform due to the long and thin shape of the plot.[115] Tracklaying in the station area was complete by June 2010, following which the first train over the section carrying waste from Imberhorne cutting ran on 6 July.[129][130] GB Railfreight (GBRf), which had been contracted to run occasional trains, ran the first of its services carrying 1,000 tons of excavated rubbish from Imberhorne Cutting to disposal sites, initially at Calvert.[131] The total to be removed was some 90,981 tons, achieved by December 2011.[132] The waste had been deposited in the 60-foot-deep (18 m) and quarter-mile-long (400 m) Hill Place Cutting which was purchased and designated as a landfill tip by East Grinstead Town Council in the late 1960s and used for around 25 years.[133][134][135]
The station's layout is basic to allow trains arriving from the south to arrive directly in the platform so that the locomotive can detach, take water and return to the south end of the train via a
Opening
The station first opened to the public on 4 September 2010 as part of an open day weekend.
The Bluebell Railway commenced services to East Grinstead on 23 March 2013.[141] The first service was the 9:45 am "The Pioneer" to Sheffield Park hauled by LB&SCR A1X class 55 Stepney.[142] The first through service from London Victoria since September 1963 and the first service through to Sheffield Park since 1958, a 12-coach railtour worked by GBRf Class 66/7 66739, ran on 28 March 2013.[143][144] Two GBRf Class 73s, 73207 and 73119, provided heating and also operated services between East Grinstead and Sheffield Park using the Bluebell's own rolling stock.[143][144] In the year following the opening of the extension, the Bluebell's annual passenger figures rose from 60,000 to 250,000 and annual revenue increased by 25% to £4 million.[145]
High Level
Opening
East Grinstead High Level | |
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General information | |
Location | East Grinstead, Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways |
Key dates | |
1 August 1882 | Opened |
2 January 1967 | Closed to passengers |
10 April 1967 | Closed to goods |
The high level station was still in construction when it opened on 1 August 1882, the first day of service on the L&EG, and was initially only used by some Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells services scheduled to connect with those on the L&EG.[4][50][40][146] The new station was still not complete by March 1883 and a working timetable instruction advised locomotive drivers and guards to take care to ensure that their trains pulled up at the completed part of the high level platform.[147] Until 14 October 1883, these trains called at the 1866 and the unfinished high level station where a temporary ticket box was opened.[40][50] On 15 October 1883 the new high and low level stations were officially opened and the 1866 station was closed.[51][4]
The high level station had two
Following the opening of the CO&EG on 10 March 1884,
Closure
The closure of the Three Bridges-Ashurst Junction line after the last train on Sunday 1 January 1967 spelt the end for the high level station and St Margaret's Loop which would receive no further traffic.[77][165][61][166][79] The goods yard had been virtually closed for some time except for coal and all freight facilities were formally withdrawn as from 10 April.[165][167][168][36] Although very nearly redundant, the high level goods sidings could still be accessed via the low to high level connecting spur;[79] both spurs serving the high level station were however closed in 1967.[46] The last train to use the station was in February 1968, a tracklifting train hauled by a Class 33 diesel locomotive.[169] As the footbridge at the low-level platforms had been demolished in Summer 1965, passengers used the high level station as a short-cut between platforms, thereby avoiding the need to go around a local housing estate.[79][169] The high level's demolition in 1970 led to protests from passengers at the loss of the short-cut, as a result of which British Rail erected a footbridge which today marks the site of the high level station.[169][170]
The goods yard area was taken over by the A22 road which runs parallel with Railway Approach.[169] The East Grinstead Society had attempted to save the brick goods shed for reuse as a drama and arts workshop but were unable to secure the necessary funds and so it was demolished in 1976.[169][168] The site of the high level station is now a car park whose perimeter is marked out with old rails.[171][15][31] Beyond the car park to the east, the former railway embankment has been removed to make way for the Inner Relief Road (A22 Beeching Way) which was opened in 1978.[172][31] In July 1979, much of the trackbed from Three Bridges to East Grinstead became a footpath and cycleway known as the Worth Way.[173]
Future
The reopening of the line from Tunbridge Wells to Three Bridges has been suggested as a means of relieving the A264 road.[174] However, a number of obstacles would appear to stand in the way of such action, most notably:
- An industrial site currently occupies the former location of Forest Row railway station as well as a small recycling centre to the west.[175][176]
- The formation has been built across in several places notably in East Grinstead where about 1 mile (1.6 km) of the trackbed from Station Road to the Lewes Road tunnel has been taken over for a relief road, the A22 Beeching Way.[177] As there is no feasible alternative route into the station, this road would need to be reconverted back to rail.[citation needed] Any such action would in all likelihood result in a reduction in capacity on an already highly congested local road network.[citation needed]
- The site of Grange Road has disappeared under a small parade of shops as well as housing which block 0.64 miles (1.03 km) of the formation.[178][179]
- In 1974, Country Park using the trackbed of the line from East Grinstead (just to the east of Beeching Way) as far as Groombridge.[180] Similarly, in 1979 West Sussex County Council created the Worth Way linear Country Park using the disused Three Bridges to East Grinstead line.[173] Both have been incorporated into Sustrans' National Cycle Route 1.[181]
In popular culture
In the book Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen, Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore travel to London on a train from East Grinstead, which is the nearest railway station to Ashdown Forest, to deliver a present for the Queen's 90th birthday. Although the station is not named in the text, the station sign is shown in an illustration.
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- White, I.M. (2010). "East Grinstead Town". British Railway Modelling. 19 (6): 62–67.
- Wood, P.D. (1986). "How the railway first came to East Grinstead". Bluebell News. 28. Sussex, England: Bluebell Railway: 64–67.
External links
- Train times and station information for East Grinstead railway station from National Rail