Wivelsfield train station

You can reach 74 stations directly from Wivelsfield on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Haywards Heath, with 154 trains a day.

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• 74 direct destinations
• 901st busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Wivelsfield

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 35 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Wivelsfield

Wivelsfield is on the Brighton Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Wivelsfield station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Wivelsfield station on 112 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 23 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 13 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Monday, with 4 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Wivelsfield station is

467,022 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 901st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 23,506 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Wivelsfield and Brighton than any other pair: 93,992 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 40 stations instead of 74, a drop of about 46%. Saturday runs to 75.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Wivelsfield gains 2 destinations including Merstham, Coulsdon South.

Nearest other stations

• Burgess Hill 0.8 miles
• Haywards Heath 2.9 miles
• Hassocks 2.9 miles
• Plumpton 3.6 miles
• Balcombe 6.3 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Wivelsfield, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Ardingly · 4.9 miles

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Facilities at Wivelsfield station

Wivelsfield is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:35 · Saturday: 06:10 to 19:35 · Sunday: 09:10 to 16:45

Toilets

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.

Getting to Wivelsfield station

Wivelsfield station is in Mid Sussex, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).

The nearest motorway junction is M23 J11 (Pease Pottage), 8.9 miles north-west.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Wivelsfield Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Wivelsfield station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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