Uckfield railway station

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Uckfield National Rail
Uckfield Railway Station.jpg
Location
Place Uckfield
Local authority District of Wealden
Grid reference TQ473209
Operations
Station code UCK
Managed by Southern
Number of platforms 1
DfT category E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05   0.147 million
2005/06 Increase 0.217 million
2006/07 Increase 0.263 million
2007/08 Increase 0.310 million
2008/09 Increase 0.335 million
2009/10 Increase 0.337 million
2010/11 Increase 0.403 million
2011/12 Increase 0.445 million
2012/13 Increase 0.538 million
2013/14 Increase 0.547 million
2014/15 Increase 0.552 million
History
Original company Lewes and Uckfield Railway
Pre-grouping London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Post-grouping Southern Railway
18 October 1858 Opened
January 1990 Line singled (down platform closed)
13 May 1991 Relocated
9 December 2000 Original station demolished
16 March 2010 Station rebuilt
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Uckfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Uckfield railway station serves Uckfield in East Sussex, England. Train services from the station are provided by Southern, and the station is the terminus for the Uckfield branch of the Oxted Line.

History

Original Uckfield station in 2007

The present Uckfield station opened in 1991 replacing the original structure which was sited 55 yards (50 m) to the south. With the closure of the line south to Lewes (where a junction allowed trains to continue on to Eastbourne or Brighton), the original station found itself stranded on the wrong side of a level crossing on the High Street which created traffic congestion whenever a train was arriving or departing from the station. The decision was therefore made to close the original station (which had been opened in 1868) and to open a new station on the other side of the road. The original station was demolished on 9 December 2000 after it had been damaged by flooding.[1]

Since 1986 there had been a campaign to re-open the line south of Uckfield through to Lewes, known as the Wealden Line, which attracted cross-party support.[2] In 2008 the "Wealdenlink" presentation was published which gave new impetus to the campaign for reinstatement.[3] On 23 July 2008 the Central Rail Corridor Board (a joint group of local councils and stakeholders) commissioned study by Network Rail reported that there was not an economic case for reopening, citing a £141 million cost and an allegedly low "benefit-cost ratio" of 0.64 to 0.79 when a figure of 1.5 is the minimum required by the Department for Transport to make a scheme viable.[4]

As part of Network Rail's national stations improvement programme, Uckfield received a new station building to replace the 1991 portakabin-type structure which was deemed "not fit for purpose".[5] The new building was built to Network Rail's modular, pre-fabricated design used at Mitcham Eastfields and Greenhithe.[6] The components for Uckfield's new station building - consisting of a ticket office, public toilet, staff accommodation, ticket hall and café - were manufactured by Britspace in Yorkshire and installed by contractors Bryen & Langley.[7] The new building, which cost £750,000,[8] was opened for passenger use on 16 March 2010.[9]

Whereas the neighbouring East Grinstead line has 750 V DC electric traction, motive power on Uckfield line is provided by Class 171 diesel multiple units. It has been proposed many times that the line be electrified, but this is considered too expensive for the amount of passenger traffic.[10] Rail usage figures published in March 2010 showed that journeys from the station had increased by 179% in the five years to 2008/09.[11]

Services

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour to London Bridge, calling at Buxted, Crowborough, Eridge, Ashurst, Cowden, Hever, Edenbridge Town, Hurst Green, Oxted and East Croydon. On Sundays this is reduced to an hourly shuttle to Oxted calling at all stations. Previously, most off peak trains from Uckfield only went as far as Oxted (with an interchange with East Grinstead line services), but since Southern has taken over the service, it has been extended and passenger numbers have risen. In December 2010 a new later evening service from London Bridge (around 11pm) was introduced allowing passengers for the first time in recent years to travel home from London in the late evening.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Buxted   Southern
Oxted Line
Uckfield branch		   Terminus
Disused railways
Buxted
Line and station open		   British Rail
Southern Region
Wealden Line		   Isfield
Line closed; station open
Heritage Railways  Proposed Heritage railways
Terminus   Lavender Line   Isfield
Line closed; station open

References

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