Glynde railway station
Glynde  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Glynde, Lewes England | ||||
| Grid reference | TQ458086 | ||||
| Managed by | Southern | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | GLY | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1846 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  72,958 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  20,492 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 51,232 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 60,526 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 62,362 | ||||
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Glynde railway station serves Glynde in East Sussex. It is 53 miles 11 chains (85.5 km) from London Bridge, on the East Coastway Line and train services are provided by Southern.
History
[edit]The station was opened 27 June 1846[1] by the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway when that railway opened its line from Lewes to Bulverhithe, originally as a single line.[2] The line was doubled during early 1847.[3]
Current status
[edit]The station is unstaffed and a PERTIS Permit to travel machine was installed in 2008, in connection with a Penalty Fares Scheme. This has since been replaced by a Shere self-service ticket machine.
The station is located near to the Glyndebourne Opera House, although better connections to the opera house are available from Lewes, from which shuttle buses run.
The former Station building is occupied by Airworks paragliding school.
Services
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All services at Glynde are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4]
- 1 tph to Brighton via Lewes
- 1 tph to Eastbourne
Additional services between Brighton, Hastings and Ore call at the station during the peak hours, as well as some morning services to London Victoria and some evening services to Eastbourne.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Southern | ||||
Accidents and incidents
[edit]On 4 January 1887, a passenger train crashed into a stray wagon that had toppled over onto the main line during shunting operations. It is not clear how the wagon had toppled over. A guard on the passenger train sustained broken ribs.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 212
- ^ Turner, JT Howard (1977). The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 1 :Origins & Formation (First ed.). London: BT Batsford Ltd. pp. 213, 223. ISBN 0-7134-0275X.
- ^ Turner, JT Howard (1977). The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 1 :Origins & Formation (First ed.). London: BT Batsford Ltd. pp. 226, 227. ISBN 0-7134-0275X.
- ^ Table 190 National Rail timetable, May 2023
- ^ "Accident at Glynde on 4th January 1887" (PDF). Railways Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
External links
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- Train times and station information for Glynde railway station from National Rail