Eastbourne Railway Station
| Eastbourne Railway Station | |
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 Entrance building of the station
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| Data | |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | EBN |
| IBNR | 7000750 |
| opening | 1849 (first station), 1886 (today's station) |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Eastbourne |
| county | East Sussex |
| Part of the country | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 46 '8 " N , 0 ° 16' 52" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in the United Kingdom | |
The Eastbourne Railway Station is a railway station in the southern English town of Eastbourne . It is the second - and larger - station in the city , next to Hampden Park station. Eastbourne is frequented by around 3.5 million travelers annually.
history
The first station opened on May 14, 1849 when the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB & SCR) opened a single track branch line from Polegate Station on the East Coastway Line . Today there is a track triangle in the area of the junction, but the possibility of directly bypassing Eastbourne has been closed, so that today some trains pass Hampden Park station twice.
In 1866 the first station building was replaced by a second before it had to give way to the current one in 1886.
In addition to the Polegate branch line, an extension of the Seaford branch line along from Beachy Head to Eastbourne was actually planned.
Location and architecture
The station is a terminal station and is located a little north of the center by the sea on a street corner. There is a clock tower above the main entrance. In January 2010, parts of the station had to be closed when parts of the tower began to crumble.
The main building in question now houses, among other things, the dispatcher , a counter hall , a waiting room , a café and a subway branch .
Opposite the train station is the Arndale Center, a large shopping center. There is a bus station right next to the train station, from which long-distance buses run to Brighton, London or Gatwick Airport in addition to the city bus routes .
business
Eastbourne Station is under the operational control of Southern .
There are direct train connections to London Victoria (via Gatwick Airport), Brighton , Hastings, Ore or Ashford International at High Speed 1 . In spite of the terminus, not a single train runs only to / from Eastbourne, mostly there are routes such as London Victoria – Ore or Brighton – Hastings – Ashford International. As a result, the same train runs pass through Hampden Park station twice: either the trains stop only once or both times. There are additional trains to London Bridge early in the morning .
Accidents
- On August 25, 1958, the Glasgow Central –Eastbourne night train collided with a train on the Ore – London Bridge route. Five people were killed and 40 others were injured, some seriously.
- During the Second World War , the depot at the train station was badly damaged by bombing and was not reopened after the war. It was demolished in 1952, but the area is still used today to park trains.
future
The Southern sister company Southeastern is making efforts to extend the Southeastern Highspeed high- speed trains, which run from St Pancras via High Speed One to various destinations in Kent, to Hastings and Eastbourne. These train connections would then depart from Ashford from HS1 and then run on the Marshlink Line to Hastings and then on the East Coastway Line to Eastbourne. However, this would require re-electrification of the route between Ashford and Eastbourne.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://de.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0042033 Architectural description of the train station
- ↑ http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4842943.Part_of_railway_station_closed_due_to_crumbling_clock_tower/ Online newspaper report from The Argus on the subject
- ^ WP Reed: Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Railway Accidents, Report on the Collision which occurred on August 25, 1958 at the Eastborne Station (PDF; 480 kB) Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1959. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ↑ Monday August 25, 1958. 7.28am - The date and time of the worst tragedy in the peacetime history of Eastbourne . In: Eastbourne Herald , 23 May, 2010. Retrieved on 23 May 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.scribd.com/doc/25315668/Economic-Impact-of-HS1?query=eastbourne
