Angmering railway station

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 0.6 miles (1 km) away from the centre of Angmering village, and is 15 miles 44 chains (25.0 km) down the line from Brighton. 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'.

Angmering
The main station building and platform one, as seen looking west from platform two (June 2007)
Location	East Preston (Littlehampton), Arun England
Grid reference	TQ065029
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ANG
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	16 March 1846
Passengers
2015/16	0.865 million
2016/17	0.700 million
2017/18	0.801 million
2018/19	0.827 million
2019/20	0.859 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

Film of the station in 1937 is held by the Cinema Museum in London on spool HM 00072.

Services

Off-peak, all services at Angmering are operated by Southern. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]

• 2 tph to Brighton
• 2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
• 2 tph to Littlehampton
• 1 tph to Southampton Central via Chichester
• 1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour

During the peak periods, there are a small number of trains between Littlehampton, London Bridge and Bedford, operated by Thameslink.

Former and 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 day 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.[2]

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.[3]

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 on 21 November 2009. Tributes have been paid on her personal Facebook profile and her "RIP Megan" group, which has nearly 9,000 members. Flowers and messages from friends and family were left outside the station.[4]

Gallery

• 
  Closer view of the main station building and level crossing beyond.
• 
  The ticket office building and former station house, from the forecourt.
• 
  The substantial former station house, looking north from the level crossing.

References

1. "Timetable 24: Littlehampton and Worthing to Brighton and London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
2. "BBC News story about Weselby's death". Archived from the original on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 19 March 2007.
3. "BBC News story about Blackwood's death". 3 January 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
4. "BBC News story about Moore's death". 23 November 2009. Archived from the original on 27 November 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010.

• 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

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