The Brighton Main Line
The Brighton Main Line links 33 stations, with a top line speed of 90 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 163 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 33 |
| Top line speed | 90 mph |
| Passengers a year | 194.0 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | VTB3, VTB1, VTB2, LBW |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Brighton15.3 million a year
- Preston Park1.1 million a year
- Hassocks1.3 million a year
- Burgess Hill1.7 million a year
- Wivelsfield467,022 a year
- Haywards Heath4.0 million a year
- Balcombe213,026 a year
- Three Bridges3.3 million a year
- Gatwick Airport21.2 million a year
- Horley1.3 million a year
- Salfords158,338 a year
- Earlswood352,176 a year
- Redhill3.2 million a year
- Reedham105,708 a year
- Purley2.8 million a year
- Purley Oaks480,890 a year
- South Croydon1.1 million a year
- East Croydon20.6 million a year
- Selhurst1.2 million a year
- Thornton Heath2.4 million a year
- Norbury2.3 million a year
- Streatham Common2.8 million a year
- Sydenham3.5 million a year
- Forest Hill4.2 million a year
- Balham6.0 million a year
- Wandsworth Common961,536 a year
- Honor Oak Park2.6 million a year
- Clapham Junction24.4 million a year
- Brockley3.7 million a year
- Queenstown Road806,010 a year
- Battersea Park2.2 million a year
- New Cross Gate4.6 million a year
- London Victoria53.8 million a year
The busiest station on the line is London Victoria, 53.8 million entries and exits a year and 6th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Brighton Main Line on 477 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 85 paths on the Wednesday, 39 paths on the Saturday and 23 paths on the Sunday. 35 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 10:00 to 11:00 on the Monday, with 16 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
Arun Valley Line, Brighton Main Line (Redhill Line), Chatham Main Line, East Coastway Line, East Grinstead Line, East London Line, London Bridge to Windmill Bridge Junction, North Downs Line, South London Line, South West Main Line, Tattenham Corner Line, Waterloo to Reading Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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