Disused railway lines and closed stations in East Sussex

94 miles of disused railway
31 closed stations
46 stations open today
30 named lost lines

East Sussex has 94 miles of disused railway and 31 closed stations, against 46 stations still open today. That is 0.7 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Ashford D Junction to Hastings, with 13 miles of its route inside East Sussex.

See East Sussex’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 94 miles of lost railway in East Sussex break down as 73 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 18 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.9 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in East Sussex

30 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside East Sussex; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Ashford D Junction to Hastings	13
Cuckoo Line	7.4
The Cuckoo Trail	7.0
South Croydon to Uckfield Branch	6.5
Hurst Green and East Grinstead Branch	6.2
Three Bridges Junction to Groombridge Junction Line	4.8
Bexhill West Branch Line	4.3
Polegate Junction to Stone Cross Junction Line	3.4
Devil's Dyke Branch	3.1
The Crumbles Railway	2.9
Forest Way	2.8
Kemp Town Branch Line	2.3
Cuckoo Trail	2.2
Newhaven Town Yard	2.2
Rye & Camber Tramway	2.2
Rye Harbour Branch	1.9
Volk's Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway	1.7
Seaford Branch	1.2
Ouse Valley Railway	1.2
Brighton Down Main Carriage Sidings	0.9
Seaford Branch Line	0.9
Newhaven East Quay Branch	0.8
Brede Valley Water Works Tramway	0.7
Hamsey Loop	0.7
Lewes Avoiding Line	0.7
Brighton Lovers Walk Depot	0.6
Brighton Goods Incline	0.4
Eastbourne Electric Light Works	0.4
Portland Cement Works	0.4
Lewis Avenue	0.3

Closed railway stations in East Sussex

All 31 closed and former stations in East Sussex, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in East Sussex

46 stations in East Sussex still have a train service. The busiest are Brighton (15.3 million a year), Eastbourne (3.8 million a year), Lewes (2.6 million a year), Hastings (2.2 million a year) and Hove (2.0 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Kent, West Sussex and Surrey.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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