Place Portslade Station code PLD DfT category D Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference TQ264055 Managed by Southern 2011/12 1.034 million | |
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Address Hove BN3 5SJ, United Kingdom Similar Southwick railway station, Hove railway station, Aldrington railway station, Fishersgate railway station, Lancing railway station | ||
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Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station serving the town of Portslade-by-Sea in East Sussex, England, but located on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (a part commonly known as 'West Hove').
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Southern electrostar 377 410 arriving at portslade railway station
Services
The station is operated by Southern and is on the West Coastway Line just outside Brighton. The standard Monday-Saturday off-peak service consists of 5 trains per hour in each direction:
Eastbound
Westbound
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".