Arundel railway station

Arundel
Arundel
General information
Location	Arundel, Arun; England
Grid reference	TQ024063
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2 (was 3)
Other information
Station code	ARU
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	3 August 1863
Passengers
2018/19	0.327 million
2019/20	0.317 million
2020/21	85,660
2021/22	0.209 million
2022/23	0.258 million
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Arundel railway station serves the market town of Arundel in West Sussex. The station is on the eastern side of the town, about 550 yards (500 m) from the High Street, across the River Arun. It is 58 miles 28 chains (93.9 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill.

The station is situated on the A27 and is the transport hub for many settlements in the Arun District area, including Angmering and Wick, for passengers joining London-bound services to the capital and Gatwick Airport. The station is served by the No. 9 Stagecoach bus service that operates between Arundel, Littlehampton, Rustington, and Shoreham; bus stops are outside the station on the A27.^[1]

The station can accommodate 12 coach trains and is one of the few stations along the Arun Valley route that does not have coach restriction announcements.

History[edit]

Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as part of the Mid-Sussex railways, it 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.

Until 1978, most trains from Arundel to London were routed via Dorking and Sutton, which was slightly quicker than today's workings. However, since 1978, services now serve Gatwick Airport and Croydon, and passengers for Dorking and Sutton now take a connecting train at Horsham.

The current use of the station is for predominantly London or Gatwick Airport bound passenger traffic. On Mondays to Saturdays, southbound trains currently only serve Ford, Barnham, and Bognor Regis. Passengers for Chichester, Portsmouth Harbour and Southampton Central have a change of train at Barnham. There are also no regular direct trains to Littlehampton.

Services[edit]

All services at Arundel are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs.

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

2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
2 tph to Bognor Regis

On Sundays, there is an hourly service in each direction, but with southbound trains dividing at Barnham before travelling to Portsmouth Harbour and Bognor Regis.