Balcombe railway station

Balcombe
Balcombe
Location
Place	Balcombe
Local authority	Mid Sussex, West Sussex
Operations
Station code	BAB
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
	Live arrivals/departures and station information; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.102 million
2005/06 *	0.110 million
2006/07 *	0.110 million
2007/08 *	0.110 million
2008/09 *	0.105 million
History
	Opened 12 July 1841
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	* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Balcombe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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For the station in Melbourne, Australia once known as Balcombe, see Mentone railway station.

Balcombe Station in 1961

Balcombe railway station serves the village of Balcombe in West Sussex, England. It is on the Brighton Main Line and Thameslink 27 km (17 mi) north of Brighton. Train services are primarily provided by First Capital Connect, with a few Southern services during the peaks, and the latter company operates the station, which has a manned ticket office on the southbound platform, whilst a PERTIS ticket machine is also located on the southbound platform.

[edit] History

The original station was opened in July 1841 by the London and Brighton Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. The station was resited to its present position in 1848 or 1849.^[1] Further alterations were carried out in 1906 as a result of the widening of the line between Balcombe tunnel and the Ouse Valley Viaduct.^[2]

The station became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is one train per hour to Brighton and one train per hour to Bedford via Gatwick Airport, East Croydon and London Bridge.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Three Bridges		Southern Brighton Main Line		Haywards Heath
Three Bridges		First Capital Connect Thameslink		Haywards Heath

[edit] References

^ Howard Turner, J.T. (1978). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway, Vol.2 Establishment and Growth=Batsford. London, England. ISBN 0-7134-1389-1. p.22.
^ Howard Turner, J.T. (1979). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway, Vol.3 Completion and Maturity=Batsford. London, England. ISBN 0-7134-1198-8. p.152.

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. 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. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
Station on navigable O.S. map

[edit] Gallery

View of the main station building and Down (southbound) platform
Old, now disused toilet block on the Down platform
The main building, containing ticket office and waiting area
Waiting shelter with chimney, on Up (northbound) platform
Unidentified Southern Class 377 EMU passes through non-stop on a northbound service
View across the station from the road overbridge at the southern end