Angmering railway station

Angmering
The main station building and platform one, as seen looking west from platform two (June 2007)
Location
Place	East Preston (Littlehampton)
Local authority	Arun
Operations
Station code	ANG
Managed by	Southern
Owned by	National Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.526 million
2005/06 *	0.553 million
2006/07 *	0.614 million
2007/08 *	0.660 million
2008/09 *	0.678 million
2009/10 *	0.691 million
History
Opened 16 March 1846 (16 March 1846)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Angmering from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Angmering is a railway station on the West Coastway Line, on the border of Angmering and East Preston in the district of Arun. It was opened in 1846. The station itself is situated about 1 km away from the centre of Angmering village, and approx 150 m south of the A259. Buses depart for Angmering village hourly (Monday to Saturday off-peak), or walking to the village takes about 20 min. The station is located near to the local secondary school The Angmering School, some of the students of which use the station daily to travel to and from school. Angmering station is also designed to be used by the residents of the nearby villages of Rustington and East Preston, with some of the station's signage actually reading 'Angmering for Rustington and East Preston'.

History

Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.

Services

The station and all trains serving it are run by Southern, with the typical off-peak service comprising the following:

Eastbound

• 1 train/hour to Brighton from Portsmouth Harbour, calling at Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick, Portslade, Hove and Brighton.

• 1 train/hour to Brighton from Southampton Central, calling at Goring-by-Sea, Durrington-on-Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick, Portslade, Hove and Brighton.

• 1 train/hour to London Victoria from Littlehampton, calling at Goring-by-Sea, Durrington-on-Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Hove, Haywards Heath, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Clapham Junction and London Victoria.

• 1 train/hour to London Victoria from Littlehampton, calling at Goring-by-Sea, Durrington-on-Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Portslade, Hove, Preston Park, Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Clapham Junction and London Victoria.

Westbound

• 1 train/hour to Portsmouth Harbour from Brighton, calling at Ford, Barnham, Chichester, Havant, Fratton, Portsmouth and Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour.

• 1 train/hour to Southampton Central from Brighton, calling at Ford, Barnham, Chichester, Emsworth, Havant, Cosham, Fareham Swanwick and Southampton Central.

• 2 trains/hour to Littlehampton, calling at Littlehampton.

Some train services along the line do not call at this station.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Goring-by-Sea		Southern West Coastway Line		Ford
		Southern West Coastway Line Littlehampton branch		Littlehampton

Former & Current Train Companies

Southern currently manage the station and the trains that call at Angmering. Previously, South West Trains also used the station, running four trains per hour to Brighton via Angmering until December 2007.

Facilities

There is a ticket office, a waiting room, toilets, buffet, car park, taxi rank and cycle storage.

Deaths

A local woman, Maureen Weselby, committed suicide by jumping in front of a Brighton-bound express, operated by South West Trains, in May 2006.^[1]

A local teenager, Adam Blackwood, was killed here when a Littlehampton-bound Southern Class 377 train approaching the station knocked him down at a nearby pedestrian level crossing in early 2007.^[2]

Another local, 16-year-old Megan Moore of Angmering, was killed after being dragged under the 22:17 London Victoria to Bognor Regis train just before midnight in November 2009. Tributes have been paid on her personal Facebook profile and her "RIP Megan" group, which has nearly 9000 members. Flowers and messages from friends and family were left outside the station.^[3]

Gallery

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  Closer view of the main station building and level crossing beyond.

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  The ticket office building and former station house, from the forecourt.

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  The substantial former station house, looking north from the level crossing.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

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

Coordinates: 50°48′59″N 0°29′21″W / 50.81639°N 0.48917°W / 50.81639; -0.48917