Bexhill
377 101 at Bexhill station, looking east
General information
Location	Bexhill-on-Sea, Rother England
Grid reference	TQ743075
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BEX
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
27 June 1846	opened as Bexhill
9 July 1923	renamed Bexhill Central
?	renamed Bexhill
Passengers
2018/19	1.448 million
2019/20	1.502 million
2020/21	0.582 million
2021/22	1.298 million
2022/23	1.400 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Bexhill railway station serves Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, England. It is on the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southern.

History

Bexhill Station is the third station on this site. The present station was opened in June 1902 and replaced a previous station positioned on both sides of the track across the top of Devonshire Road. The new station had exceptionally long platforms, approximately 960 yards. The station was known as Bexhill Central after July 1923, when the Southern Railway was formed. This was because the former SECR establishment in Terminus Road took was also Bexhill. Bexhill Central reverted to Bexhill sometime after the SECR establishment closed in June 1964. The previous stations on this site were the first station of 1847 which was sited west of the present down platform. The second station was on the up and down sides across the top of Station Square, now Devonshire Square.

Description

The station is a grade II listed building,^[1] and a restoration project to the platform canopies and ticket office area was completed in the summer of 2008.

The station is accredited as part of the Department for Transport's Secure Stations scheme, with a digital CCTV system in place. It is staffed during the daytime but not late in the evenings.

The station has ticket barrier access only, prior to this the station was often unmanned.

Services

All services at Bexhill are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs and Class 171 DMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[2]

• 1 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
• 1 tph to Brighton (semi-fast)
• 1 tph to Eastbourne (stopping)
• 2 tph to Hastings of which 1 continue to Ore
• 1 tph to Ashford International

During the peak hours and on Saturdays, the station is also served by an additional hourly semi-fast service between Brighton and Ore.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Pevensey & Westham		Southern East Coastway Line		St Leonards Warrior Square
Collington

Campaigns for service improvements

A local campaign group Bexhill Rail Action Group (BRAG) was formed in 2005 in response to proposals to end through services to London Victoria. The campaign was successful and BRAG continues to campaign for local rail improvements.

Campaigners are seeking to upgrade and electrify the Marshlink Line to extend Southeastern high speed train services (which operate from London St Pancras via High Speed 1 to Ashford International) onwards via Rye to Hastings, Bexhill and Eastbourne, and which, if realised could slash journey times between Bexhill and the capital to around 1 hour and 15 minutes, instead of the average 1 hour 52 minutes currently.^{[citation needed]}