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'). It is 2 miles 73 chains (4.7 km) down the line from Brighton.

Portslade
General information
Location	Portslade, Brighton & Hove England
Grid reference	TQ264055
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	PLD
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	12 May 1840
Passengers
2016/17	0.951 million
2017/18	1.070 million
2018/19	1.147 million
2019/20	1.204 million
2020/21	0.314 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Services

Off-peak, all services at Portslade are operated by Southern using Class 313 and 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]

• 1 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
• 2 tph to Brighton (1 of these run calls at all stations and 1 does not stop at Aldrington)
• 1 tph to Southampton Central
• 1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour
• 1 tph to Littlehampton

During the peak hours and on Saturdays, the service between London Victoria and Littlehampton is increased to 2 tph. There are also a number of peak hour Thameslink operated services between Littlehampton, London Bridge and Bedford.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Aldrington or Hove		Southern West Coastway Line		Fishersgate or Southwick or Shoreham-by-Sea
Hove		Thameslink Bedford to Littlehampton Peak Hours Only		Shoreham-by-Sea

Future developments

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".[2]

Gallery

• 
  Southern EMU 377437 arriving with the 1300 Brighton-Littlehampton service on 17 February 2007
• 
  Side view of the main station building on the Down platform; the side entrance is through the wall on the left
• 
  The single-storey building on the Up platform, no longer in use, and the Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine
• 
  Platform-side view of the main building from rail height, standing on the adjacent level crossing
• 
  South West Trains DMU 170305 passes through the Down platform with the 1257 Brighton-Reading service on 17 February 2007
• 
  South West Trains EMU 450101 passes through the Up platform with the 1124 Basingstoke-Brighton service on 17 February 2007

See also

• Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: P–R

References

External links

Media related to Portslade railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Train times and station information for Portslade railway station from National Rail