Balcombe railway station

Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Balcombe
Balcombe
General information
Location	Balcombe, District of Mid Sussex; England
Grid reference	TQ306301
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BAB
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	12 July 1841
Passengers
2015/16	0.129 million
2016/17	0.128 million
2017/18	0.132 million
2018/19	0.152 million
2019/20	0.180 million
Notes
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Balcombe railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England, serving the village of Balcombe, West Sussex. It is 33 miles 64 chains (54.4 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill and is situated between Three Bridges and Haywards Heath. It is managed by Southern.

Trains calling at Balcombe are primarily operated by Thameslink, with some Southern services during the peaks.

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]

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.

Off-peak, all services at Balcombe are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.

As of May 2020, the typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[2]

Additional Thameslink and Southern services to London Victoria, Bedford and Littlehampton call at the station during the peak hours.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Three Bridges		Thameslink Brighton Main Line		Haywards Heath
Three Bridges		Southern Brighton Main Line Peak Hours Only		Haywards Heath

^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) p.22.
^ "Gatwick Airport Station Upgrade". Southern, May 2020.

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Station on navigable O.S. map