Amberley railway station

Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Template other Amberley railway station is a railway station in West Sussex, England. It serves the village of Amberley, about half a mile away, and was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. The Amberley Working Museum – a museum of industry – is accessed from the former station goods yard.

It is down the line from Template:Stn via Template:Rws on the Arun Valley Line.

History

Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 3 August 1863,Template:Sfn it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923.

The station had two platforms connected with a footbridge, a signalbox (now closed) is situated on Platform 2, under the station canopy. There was a goods yard with connections into a "chalk and lime works" to the south of the station and "Amberley Lime Works", now the Amberley Working Museum to the north east. The goods yard was equipped to take most sorts of goods including live stock and had a 1 ton crane.Template:Sfn

The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939.Template:Sfn

The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Two camping coaches were positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1961, the coaches were replaced by two Pullman camping coaches which stayed until 1967.Template:Sfn

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

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377140 departing Amberley with a Southern service bound for Bognor Regis

All services at Amberley are operated by Southern using Template:Brc EMUs.

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

• 2 tph to Template:Stn via Gatwick Airport
• 2 tph to Bognor Regis

On Sundays, there is an hourly service but southbound trains divide at Barnham, with an additional portion of the train travelling to Portsmouth Harbour.

Preceding station	National Rail National Rail			Following station
Pulborough		Southern Template:Smalldiv		Arundel

Bibliography

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External links

• Train times and station information for Amberley railway station from National Rail
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• Picture of Amberley Signal Box situated on the station
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