Berwick railway station is located in

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. The station is on the East Coastway Line, from , and train services are provided by

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History

The station was opened by the

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on 27 June 1846 and extended in 1890; the neighbouring station cottages were built in 1846 and 1892. An English Heritage report called Berwick 'in all one of the most complete wayside country station ensembles.'

Signal box

The signal box was a

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Type 5 box, erected in 1879 and retained its original lever frame and its semaphore signalling. Following an upgrade by Network Rail, the signal box closed in February 2015 with the area controlled from Sussex Regional Operations Centre at Three Bridges.

Services

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour to Brighton and one train per hour to Hastings via

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. On Sundays the service to Hastings terminates at Eastbourne. The station's booking office on the Eastbourne-bound platform is staffed part-time. The

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ticket machine was located on this platform but has now been replaced with a

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passenger-operated self-service ticket machine. A METRIC self-service car park ticket machine is located at the entrance to the Eastbourne-bound platform. A further

passenger-operated self-service ticket machine is located on the London-bound platform.

Gallery

File:Berwick Station Building 11-08-05.JPG, The station building on platform 2, seen from the station approach File:Berwick (Sussex) signal box, October 2014 02.JPG, The signal box File:Berwick Station 1792614 4f7510da.jpg, The station in 1964

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