Bexhill West railway station

Bexhill West

Location
Place	Bexhill-on-Sea
Area	Rother, East Sussex
Grid reference	TQ736076
Operations
Original company	Crowhurst, Sidley and Bexhill Railway
Pre-grouping	South Eastern and Chatham Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways
Platforms	3
History
1 June 1902	Opened as Bexhill
1 January 1917	Closed
March 1919	Reopened
1920	Renamed Bexhill-on-Sea
9 July 1923	Renamed Bexhill (Eastern)
November 1929	Renamed Bexhill West
9 September 1963	Goods facilities withdrawn
15 June 1964	Closed to passengers
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Bexhill West is a closed station in Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex. It was the terminus of the Bexhill West branch of the Hastings Line. It was opened by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and was operated by the Southern Region of British Railways on closing. The station building still survives as an auction room for a firm of auctioneers. The trackbed and site of the now demolished platforms are now occupied by commercial industrial buildings.

A 4.5-mile (7.2 km) branch line was ceremonially opened between Crowhurst and Bexhill on 31 May 1902 by the nominally independent Crowhurst, Sidley & Bexhill Railway Company which had been promoted by the Earl De La Warr together with other local businessmen and landowners. The line had the backing of the South Eastern Railway which ran services to the nearby Hastings and St Leonards stations. The branch would offer a quicker route to Bexhill than that already provided by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway whose own Bexhill station on the Hastings to Brighton line had opened more than fifty years earlier. The new Bexhill terminus would be 62 miles (100 km) from Charing Cross, while the LB&SCR's station was 71.75 miles (115.47 km) from Victoria. The branch was absorbed by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1905.