Portslade railway station serves Portslade-by-Sea in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. It is on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (sometimes known as West Hove) and is down the line from Brighton.
History Portslade station was constructed by the London and Brighton Railway as one of the original stations on that railway's branch line between Brighton and Shoreham, opening 12 May 1840. The station was closed in July 1847 and did not reopen until after a partial rebuilding in 1857. One source states that the station was resited and rebuilt to the east of the level crossing in 1881, but the Historic England listing for the building says "the present building of 1857 is little altered".
Operators In 1846 the London and Brighton Railway became part of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, which continued until the grouping of 1923 and became part of the Southern Railway until nationalisation in 1948, when it became part of the Southern Region of British Railways.
Services All services at Portslade are operated by Southern using and EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: 2 tph to via 4 tph to (one of these calls at all stations and three do not stop at ) 2 tph to 1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea 1 tph to Chichester via Littlehampton 2 tph to
During the peak hours the station is served by a small number of direct trains between Brighton and Littlehampton, as well as a single peak hour service per day between and Littlehampton.
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See also Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: P–R
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