Rogate railway station, also known variously as

Rogate Rogate is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, in the Western Rother valley. The village is on the A272 road west of Midhurst and east of Petersfield, Hampshire. The civil parish includes the villages o ...

for

Harting Harting is a civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is situated on the northern flank of the South Downs, around southeast of Petersfield in Hampshire. It comprises the village of South Harting and the hamlets of Eas ...

, and Rogate and Harting, supposedly served these two villages in the county of

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. However the station was a mile and a half away from both of these places, and was in fact in the village of

Nyewood Nyewood is a hamlet in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England situated in the Western Rother valley. The village is on an unclassified road between Rogate and South Harting, the hub of the Harting civil parish that also includes the smal ...

. The station was on the former

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line between

Petersfield Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north of Portsmouth. The town has its own railway station on the Portsmouth Direct line, the mainline rail link connecting Portsmouth a ...

and

Midhurst Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeh ...

. The line opened on 1 September 1864. Rogate station originally featured two platforms controlled by a fully operational

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, however from 1932 the box was only used for the handling of trains for the goods yard. The line closed to all traffic on 5 February 1955. The station is now used as offices.Terry Gough West Sussex: Past & Present (Past & Present Publishing Ltd, Nothants, 2002)

References

{{coord, 50.9901, -0.8550, type:railwaystation_region:GB, display=title Disused railway stations in West Sussex Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1864 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1955 Former London and South Western Railway stations