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Newhaven Town
General information
Location	Newhaven, Lewes England
Grid reference	TQ449014
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	NVN
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	8 December 1847
Pre-grouping	LB&SCR
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Passengers
2019/20	0.343 million
2020/21	0.123 million
2021/22	0.284 million
2022/23	0.319 million
2023/24	0.364 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Newhaven Town railway station is the main station serving Newhaven, East Sussex, England, the other being Newhaven Harbour. A third station, Newhaven Marine, formally closed in October 2020, but had not had a train service since 2006.

The station has two platforms, both with Permit to Travel Machines and trains are operated by Southern. It is on the Seaford Branch of the East Coastway Line, 56 miles 25 chains (90.6 km) measured from London Bridge.

The station is adjacent to the passenger terminal for the Port of Newhaven which has regular ferry sailings to Dieppe in France. Foot passengers should alight here and not at Newhaven Harbour railway station, which is for the harbour industrial estate and freight terminal.

Services

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

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 2 tph to Brighton via Lewes
• 2 tph to Seaford

Connections with services to Gatwick Airport and London Victoria can be made by changing at Lewes.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Southease or Lewes		Southern Seaford Branch Line		Newhaven Harbour or Bishopstone
	Ferry services
Dieppe		DFDS Seaways ferry		Terminus

Motive power depot

The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened an engine shed at the station in 1877. British Railways closed it in 1963 and the building is now a private workshop.

Gallery

• Newhaven Locomotive Depot 7 October 1962
• RCTS Sussex rail tour in 1962

References

1. "Newhaven Marine 'ghost station' finally closes". The Argus. 23 October 2020.
2. Yonge, John (November 2008) . Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 17A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
3. Table 189 National Rail timetable, December 2022

External links

• Train times and station information for Newhaven Town railway station from National Rail

50°47′42″N 0°03′18″E / 50.795°N 0.055°E / 50.795; 0.055

• Railway stations in East Sussex
• DfT Category E stations
• Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847
• Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway
• Newhaven
• 1847 establishments in England