Amberley railway station is a railway station in West Sussex, England. It serves the village of

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, about half a mile away, and was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. The

Amberley Working Museum Amberley Museum is an open-air industrial heritage museum at Amberley, near Arundel in West Sussex, England. The museum is owned and operated by Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre, a not-for-profit company and registered charity, and has the su ...

– a museum of industry – is accessed from the former station goods yard. It is down the line from via on the Arun Valley Line.

History

Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 3 August 1863, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station had two platforms connected with a footbridge, a signalbox (now closed) is situated on Platform 2, under the station canopy. There was a goods yard with connections into a "chalk and lime works" to the south of the station and "Amberley Lime Works", now the

to the north east. The goods yard was equipped to take most sorts of goods including live stock and had a 1 ton crane. The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1938 to 1939. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on

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in 1948. Two camping coaches were positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1961, the coaches were replaced by two ''Pullman'' camping coaches which stayed until 1967. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

All services at Amberley are operated by

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using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to On Sundays, there is also an hourly service in each direction, but with southbound trains dividing at before travelling to Bognor Regis and .

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Station on navigable O.S. map

* Railway stations in West Sussex DfT Category F2 stations Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub

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