London Road Station

London Road is a small suburban station just north of the city centre, close to the Preston Circus area of Brighton, on the coastal line to Lewes, Seaford and Eastbourne.
Although the route to Lewes was opened as early as 1846, the station at London Road wasn’t opened until 1877. It was initially served mostly by trains on the now defunct branch to Kemp Town, which had opened in 1869, and diverged to the east. It is sited at the far side of the impressive London Road viaduct, 400 yards long, 67ft high and with 27 arches. Just beyond is the short Ditchling Tunnel, 63 yards long.
The station was provided with a substantial building on the Brighton-​bound platform in the Italianate style, with two wings and reached by an impressive central flight of steps. The more modest buildings on the Lewes platform have been demolished, but the main building survives and has recently been refurbished and is home, appropriately enough, to the Brighton Model Railway Club. The platforms are staggered either side of the footbridge, to make the most of restricted site.
Today it is a busy commuter station, serving some 450,000 passengers a year, and served by 4 trains an hour in each direction during most of the day, Mondays to Saturdays, and every half hour on Sundays. The ticket office is open in the mornings only, but there are self-​service ticket machines as well as cycle storage. There is no dedicated car parking or taxi rank, but a number of bus services stop 5 minutes’ walk away in Preston Road and Ditchling Road.
There is step-​free access to both platforms from the adjacent streets, but not between them, where access is via the subway. (There is also a footbridge carrying a right of way across the station.) There are steps from the street to the ticket office, but there is step-​free access via platform 1.