Disused railway lines and closed stations in West Sussex

79 miles of disused railway
28 closed stations
38 stations open today
13 named lost lines

West Sussex has 79 miles of disused railway and 28 closed stations, against 38 stations still open today. That is 0.7 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Midhurst and Chichester Line, with 13 miles of its route inside West Sussex.

See West 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 79 miles of lost railway in West Sussex break down as 68 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 8.6 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 1.1 miles dismantled and 0.7 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 West Sussex

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

Line	Miles in county
Midhurst and Chichester Line	13
Chichester to Selsey Branch	7.7
Three Bridges Junction to Groombridge Junction Line	7.4
Petersfield to Midhurst Line	7.2
Christ's Hospital to Peasmarsh Junction Line	5.5
Pulborough Selham and Midhurst Line	5.5
Steyning Line	3.5
Downs Link	3.0
Ouse Valley Railway	2.4
Ardingly Branch	2.1
St Margaret's Loop	0.6
Devil's Dyke Branch	0.5
Barnham Down Sidings	0.4

Closed railway stations in West Sussex

All 28 closed and former stations in West 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 West Sussex

38 stations in West Sussex still have a train service. The busiest are Gatwick Airport (21.2 million a year), Haywards Heath (4.0 million a year), Three Bridges (3.3 million a year), Chichester (2.7 million a year) and Horsham (2.5 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

Surrey, East Sussex, Hampshire and Kent.

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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