Arundel railway station
Appearance
Arundel | |
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General information | |
Location | Arun |
Managed by | Southern |
Platforms | 2 (was 3) |
Other information | |
Station code | ARU |
History | |
Opened | 3 August 1863 |
Arundel railway station serves the market town of Arundel in West Sussex.
The station is on the eastern side of the town, about 550 yards (500 m) from the High Street, across the River Arun.
History
Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, it 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.
Services
The typical Monday-Saturday off peak service is:
- 2 trains per hour (tph) to London Victoria
- 2 tph to Bognor Regis
On Sundays this is reduced to:
- 1 tph to London Victoria
- 1 tph to Bognor Regis
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Amberley or Pulborough | Southern Arun Valley Line |
Ford | ||
Sometimes Littlehampton |
Gallery
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Waiting area at the northern end of the island platform.
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Southbound view from the station footbridge.
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Northbound view from the island platform
References
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
- Station on navigable O.S. map
External links
- Train times and station information for Arundel railway station from National Rail
- Arundel Station in the 1866 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain & Ireland