Portslade railway station

Off-peak, all services at Portslade are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]

• 2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
• 2 tph to Brighton (1 of these calls at all stations and 1 does not stop at Aldrington)
• 2 tph to Littlehampton
• 1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour
• 1 tph to Southampton Central

During the peak hours, the station is served by a small number of direct trains between Brighton and Littlehampton. In addition, the station is served by one peak hour train per day between London Bridge and Littlehampton, operated by Thameslink.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Aldrington or Hove		Southern West Coastway Line		Fishersgate or Southwick or Shoreham-by-Sea
Hove		Thameslink West Coastway Line Peak Hours Only		Shoreham-by-Sea

The Thameslink Programme contains proposals to extend the Thameslink network to various additional routes in southern England; one of these would be the section of the West Coastway line between Hove and Littlehampton, with services running via the Cliftonville Curve from the Brighton Main Line. This will see services that currently terminate at London Bridge continuing through Central London and north wards via the Midland Main Line or East Coast Main Line to destinations such as Luton or Cambridge. This however is not imminent, a Department for Transport whitepaper states only that "the Thameslink Programme will be completed by the end of 2015" and that "interim outputs will be delivered by the end of 2011".[2]

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  Southern EMU 377437 arriving with the 1300 Brighton-Littlehampton service on 17 February 2007
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  Side view of the main station building on the Down platform; the side entrance is through the wall on the left
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  The single-storey building on the Up platform, no longer in use, and the Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine
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  Platform-side view of the main building from rail height, standing on the adjacent level crossing
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  South West Trains DMU 170305 passes through the Down platform with the 1257 Brighton-Reading service on 17 February 2007
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  South West Trains EMU 450101 passes through the Up platform with the 1124 Basingstoke-Brighton service on 17 February 2007

• Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: P–R

Media related to Portslade railway station at Wikimedia Commons

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