St Leonards Warrior Square railway station

St Leonards Warrior Square railway station is on the Hastings line in the south of England and is one of four stations that serve Hastings, East Sussex. It is 61 miles 55 chains (99.3 km) down the line from London Charing Cross. The station is operated by Southeastern but is also served by trains operated by Southern.

St Leonards Warrior Square
The station in 2007
Location	St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex England
Grid reference	TQ803093
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SLQ
Classification	DfT category D
Key dates
13 February 1851	Opened as St Leonards[1]
5 December 1870	Renamed St Leonards Warrior Square[1]
1 January 1917	Closed[1]
1 January 1919	Reopened[1]
Passengers
2015/16	0.759 million
2016/17	0.651 million
2017/18	0.741 million
2018/19	0.820 million
2019/20	0.823 million
Interchange	0.179 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The station building and house, still in existence today, were constructed in 1851 by the South Eastern Railway (SER). The competing London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) trains were not allowed to stop here until December 1870.[2] The two companies maintained separate booking offices until 1923 when they both became part of the Southern Railway. The station is constructed in a narrow valley with higher ground east and west, so that trains arrive and depart either end of the platform through tunnels. This restricts the number of carriages which have direct access to the platform to 8 cars.

Services

Railway stations in Hastings
Marshlink line to Ashford International Ore Mount Pleasant Tunnel ( 230 yd 210 m ) Hastings Hastings Tunnel ( 788 yd 721 m ) Hastings line to Tonbridge St Leonards Warrior Square West St Leonards Bopeep Tunnel ( 1318 yd 1205 m ) Bopeep Junction St Leonards West Marina Bulverhythe Glyne Gap Halt East Coastway line to Eastbourne & Brighton

Services at St Leonards Warrior Square are operated by Southern using Class 171 DMUs and Class 377 EMUs and by Southeastern using Class 375 EMUs.

As of May 2018, the typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

Southern[3][4]

• 1 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
• 2 tph to Brighton (semi-fast)
• 1 tph to Eastbourne (stopping)
• 3 tph to Hastings of which 2 continue to Ore
• 1 tph to Ashford International

Southeastern[5]

• 2 tph to London Charing Cross via Tonbridge (1 semi-fast, 1 stopping)
• 2 tph to Hastings

Southeastern operate a number of peak services to Ore and London Cannon Street.

Gallery

• 
  The platform
• 
  Above the tunnel mouth
• 
  Above the tunnel mouth, in the snow (January 2006)
• 
  A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around St Leonards Warrior Square railway station.

References

1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 204.
2. White, H.P. (1992). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Southern England (Vol. 2). Nairn, Scotland: David St John Thomas. p. 35. ISBN 0-946537-77-1.
3. "Timetable 21: Hastings and Eastbourne to Brighton and London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
4. "Timetable 23: Ashford International to Hastings and Eastbourne" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
5. "Timetable 4: London to Tunbridge Wells and Hastings" (PDF). Southeastern, May 2020.

External links

• Train times and station information for St Leonards Warrior Square railway station from National Rail