Balcombe railway station

Balcombe railway station serves the village of Balcombe in West Sussex, England. It is on the Brighton Main Line and Thameslink 27 km north of Brighton. Train services are primarily provided by Thameslink, with a few Southern services during the peaks, and the latter company operates the station, which has a manned ticket office on the southbound platform, whilst a PERTIS ticket machine is also located on the southbound platform.

History
The original station was opened in July 1841 by the London and Brighton Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. The station was resited to its present position in 1848 or 1849.

The station became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.

Services
The typical off-peak service from the station is one train per hour to Brighton via Burgess Hill and one train per hour to London Bridge via Gatwick Airport and East Croydon (some peak services run to London Victoria or Bedford). On Sundays all services run to London Victoria rather than London Bridge.

Trains to and from London Bridge and Bedford are operated by Thameslink, while services to and from London Victoria are operated by Southern.

There is also one service per weekday on the West Coastway Line to Littlehampton (from London) but no return service. On the East Coastway Line, there are two services to London from Eastbourne (one of which runs from Hastings via Eastbourne) but no return service.