Bishopstone Beach Halt railway station

Bishopstone Beach Halt
Bishopstone Beach Halt
	Station site in 2007
General information
Location	Bishopstone, Lewes District; England
Grid reference	TQ46080039
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 June 1864	Opened as Bishopstone
1 August 1922	Renamed Bishopstone Halt
26 September 1938	Closed
6 April 1939	Reopened and renamed Bishopstone Beach Halt
1 January 1942	Closed

Bishopstone Beach Halt was a railway station in East Sussex, England that was opened on 1 June 1864 and closed on 1 January 1942. The station was built on the Seaford Branch Line for residents of the Bishopstone and Tide Mills villages and located on the west side of Mill Drove. The company that operated the trains on opening was the London Brighton & South Coast Railway, later merged into the Southern Railway.

Reasons for construction

The station was built primarily for the 60-100 workers at the mills. After the mills closed 1883 it became used mainly by holiday passengers.^[2]

History

The first name of the station was Bishopstone. It was closed in 1938 when a new Bishopstone station was built 0.6 miles (1 km) to the east, then reopened in 1939 as Bishopstone Beach Halt.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Newhaven Harbour Line open, station open		Southern Railway Seaford Branch Line		Bishopstone Line open, station open

Present day

The down platform remains intact with no track running through it (as the line beyond Newhaven Harbour was singled in 1975). The edge stones on the up platform have been removed, but the concrete support of the station sign is still in place. The station can no longer be visited by the public.^[3]

References

^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 35.
^ "The train now standing at Bishopstone Beach . . ". Sussex Express. 18 May 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
^ "Disused Stations: Bishopstone Beach Halt". Disused Stations. Retrieved 20 August 2013.