Aldrington
Westward view from the eastbound platform at Aldrington
General information
Location	Hove,Brighton & Hove England
Grid reference	TQ281056
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AGT
Classification	DfT category F1
Key dates
3 September 1905	opened as Dyke Jn Halt
17 June 1932	resited and renamed Aldrington Halt
Passengers
2019/20	0.225 million
2020/21	58,282
2021/22	0.123 million
2022/23	0.128 million
2023/24	0.140 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Aldrington railway station, sometimes known by its former names ofAldrington Halt andDyke Junction, is arailway station that serves the area ofAldrington inBrighton and Hove, inEast Sussex,England. The station is 1 mile 74 chains (3.1 km) fromBrighton on theWest Coastway Line.

Dyke Junction Halt was opened in 1905^[1] by theLondon, Brighton and South Coast Railway with short wooden platforms. In 1932 new longer platforms were constructed on an adjacent site nearer Hove to the previous platforms. They were renamed Aldrington Halt and later rebuilt in concrete by theSouthern Railway. It is situated just east of the former junction with the branch line toDevil's Dyke, which opened in 1887 and closed in 1939; the layout and curvature of certain roads and buildings immediately north-west of the station indicates where the branch ran.

The station was staffed during peak hours until approximately 1990, after which the hut which served as a ticket office was demolished. By 2009 the old concrete shelters had been replaced with reinforced plastic shelters which are now the only features on the platforms. Ramps lead down to street level.

There are ticket-issuing machines at the entrances to each platform. Pre-purchased tickets can also be collected on these machines. There is no footbridge connecting the platforms with each other. However, there is a tunnel under the railway lines at the western end of the platforms which was originally built to allow the local farmer to move his cattle between fields which became separated with the arrival of the railway.

Opened by theLondon, Brighton and South Coast Railway, it became part of theSouthern Railway during theGrouping of 1923. The line then passed on to theSouthern Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948.

WhenSectorisation was introduced, the station was served byNetwork SouthEast until theprivatisation of British Rail.

All services at Aldrington are operated bySouthern usingClass 377EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[2]

• 1 tph toBrighton
• 1 tph toChichester viaLittlehampton

During the peak hours, additional services call at the station, including services toPortsmouth & Southsea

The typical service on Sundays is:

• 2 tph to Brighton
• 1 tph toPortsmouth Harbour
• 1 tph toSouthampton Central

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hove		Southern West Coastway Line		Portslade
	Disused railways
Hove		London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Brighton and Dyke Railway		Rowan Halt

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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.OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC 228266687.

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