Hampden Park
The platforms at Hampden Park, looking north
General information
Location	Hampden Park,Eastbourne England
Coordinates	50°47′46″N0°16′44″E / 50.796°N 0.279°E /50.796; 0.279
Grid reference	TQ607021
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HMD
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Pre-grouping	London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 January 1888 (1888-01-01)	Opened asWillingdon
1 July 1903	renamedHampden Park for Willingdon
?	RenamedHampden Park
Passengers
2019/20	0.672 million
Interchange	0.164 million
2020/21	0.306 million
Interchange	40,484
2021/22	0.626 million
Interchange	0.101 million
2022/23	0.695 million
Interchange	0.121 million
2023/24	0.767 million
Interchange	0.167 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Hampden Park railway station servesHampden Park in the northern areas of the seaside town ofEastbourne inEast Sussex. It is on theEast Coastway Line, and train services are provided bySouthern. The station is sometimes used as an interchange to avoid travelling into Eastbourne itself.

Opened on 1 January 1888, it was originally calledWillingdon, but was renamedHampden Park for Willingdon on 1 July 1903. The name becameHampden Park underBritish Railways.^[1] It is one of two stations serving Eastbourne, the other beingEastbourne railway station

The station is located on a spur line originally termed theEastbourne Branch.^[2] There was a rarely used triangular junction betweenPolegate and the now-closedStone Cross which allowed trains to bypass the Branch; the track has now been lifted. Services along the coast have almost invariably served Eastbourne, where they either terminate or reverse to continue along the East Coastway. This in turn means that many trains pass through Hampden Park station twice on the same journey - once on the way into Eastbourne, and once on the way out - although most do not stop on both occasions, passing through without stopping in one or other direction.

Because of this arrangement, some connections are advertised to allow passengers on the Victoria-Eastbourne service to use Hampden Park to pick up the stopping service to Hastings and vice versa.^[3]

The level crossing at Hampden Park is thought to be one of the busiest in the country,^[4] with an average of sixteen train movements an hour off-peak, and this can lead to significant traffic congestion on adjacent roads. The signal box which controlled the crossing was abolished in February 2015 when the controls were transferred to Three Bridges Regional Operations Centre.

The typical Monday-Friday off-peak service pattern is:

• 2tph toLondon Victoria (of which one stops here before Eastbourne and one stops after Eastbourne);
• 2tph toBrighton (one of which stops before Eastbourne, and the other after Eastbourne);
• 2tph toOre (one of which stops before Eastbourne, and the other after Eastbourne);
• 1tph toAshford International (stopping after Eastbourne);
• 3tph toEastbourne only.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Polegate		Southern East Coastway line		Eastbourne
Pevensey & Westham

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