East Worthing railway station

East Worthing railway station is one of five stations serving the town of Worthing in the county of West Sussex. (The other stations being Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea and Goring-by-Sea). It is 9 mi down the line from Brighton. The station is operated by Southern, who operate all of the services.

The unstaffed station has ticket issuing facilities through one Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine on the eastbound platform. A Permit to travel machine is on the westbound platform. The station has one glass and metal shelter on each platform. In the early 1990s a small wooden ticket office building on the eastbound platform was demolished.

The platforms can only accommodate 4-coach trains. Until 2014 they were 2.25 m wide, preventing the use of access ramps for disabled passengers; but in January of that year work began to widen them to 3.75 m.

East worthing has 2 platforms. Platform one, which leads towards Brighton/London Victoria via Hove, and platform two which leads to Portsmouth & Southsea / Southampton Central.

History
Opened by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1905 as Ham Bridge Halt when the LB&SCR introduced 'motor', or 'Push-Pull' trains which served newly opened railway 'halts', as well as existing stations, between Brighton and Worthing. Other halts were opened at Holland Road, Dyke Junction, Fishersgate, and Bungalow Town. Built to serve the growing settlement at East Worthing, the original station name reflected the name of the road bridge at the eastern end. The renaming from Ham Bridge Halt to East Worthing Halt took place in September 1949. A further renaming to just East Worthing was instigated when British Rail stopped using the term 'Halt' from the timetable that commenced during May 1969.

Services
All services at East Worthing are operated by Southern using EMUs.

The service pattern, following the June timetable change, is as follows (in trains per hour):


 * 1tph to Chichester via Littlehampton
 * 1tph to Portsmouth & Southsea
 * 2tph to Brighton

Additional services call at the station during peak hours (weekdays only), with 2tpwd to Southampton Central, 2tpwd to London Victoria and 2tpwd to Littlehampton.

Additional early morning and late night services call at the station, terminating at Hove, Bognor Regis, and West Worthing.