Battle railway station

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Battle

Battle station, April 2006

Location

Place

Battle

Local authority

Rother, East Sussex

Operations

Station code

BAT

Managed by

Southeastern

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.489 million

2005/06 *

0.497 million

History

1 January 1852

Opened

1986

Lengthened and electrified

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Battle from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Battle railway station is on the Hastings Line in East Sussex in England, and serves the town of Battle. Train services are provided by Southeastern.

The station was opened on 1 January 1852. The Station building was designed by William Tress, is Grade II listed and considered to be one of the finest Gothic style small stations in the country.

Battle station is comprised of two platforms linked by a footbridge (with steps on both sides) and a station building housing the ticket office and waiting room. Train information is provided in the form of automated announcements, LED displays and poster timetables. All the original sidings have now gone and now form part of the car park. The platforms are staggered and originally did not overlap as they do now, but were extended to cater for 8 car trains shortly after the 1986 electrification of the line.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour to London Charing Cross via Tunbridge Wells and two trains per hour to Hastings. Peak hour services also run to London Cannon Street.

No bus services now run from directly outside the station, although buses towards Hastings, Hastings Conquest Hospital, Bexhill-on-Sea, Hawkhurst and Tunbridge Wells stop at the end of the long approach road.