Portslade railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Portslade
code = PLD


manager = Southern
locale = Portslade
borough = Brighton & Hove
usage0405 = 0.608
usage0506 = 0.630
usage0607 = 0.682
platforms = 2
start = 12 May 1840

Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station serving the town of Portslade-by-Sea in East Sussex, but located on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (a part commonly known as 'West Hove').

Services

The station is operated by Southern and is on the West Coastway Line just outside of Brighton. The standard Monday-Saturday off-peak service consists of 5 trains per hour in each direction:

Eastbound

*1 train per hour (tph) to London Victoria,
*4 tph to Brighton, (2 calling at Hove Only),

Westbound

*1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour,
*1 tph to Littlehampton,
*1 tph to Southampton Central,
*2 tph to West Worthing,

On Sundays this is reduced to:
*2 tph to Brighton, calling at Aldrington and Hove
*1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour,
*1 tph to Littlehampton,

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Future developments

The Thameslink 2000 project (now known as the Thameslink Programme) contains proposals to extend the Thameslink network to various additional routes in southern England; one of these would be the section of the West Coastway line between Hove and Littlehampton, with services running via the Cliftonville Curve from the Brighton Main Line. This will see services that currently terminate at London Bridge continuing through Central London and north wards via the Midland Main Line or East Coast Main Line to destinations such as Luton or Cambridge. This however is not imminent, a Department for Transport whitepaper states only that "the Thameslink Programme will be completed by the end of 2015" and that "interim outputs will be delivered by the end of 2011" [cite web|title=Delivering a Sustainable Railway - White Paper CM 7176|publisher=Department for Transport|date=2007|url=http://www.dft.gov.uk/about/strategy/whitepapers/whitepapercm7176/|accessdate=2007-07-24] .

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