Cooden Beach serves Cooden at the western end of Bexhill in East Sussex. It is on the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southern.

The station

The station was first opened on 11 September 1905 as ''Cooden Golf Halt'' to serve a growing area of new, mainly high quality, housing located close to the beach (hence its later name). By 1922, the name had been simplified to ''Cooden Halt''. With the growing housing development of the 1930s and the

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of the line a new enlarged station was built adopting its present name of ''Cooden Beach'' on 7 July 1935. The station building is at street level and a subway leads to the platforms with their wooden shelters. The shop next to the ticket office (now combined) has been a sporting goods store and a carpet store. In the latter half of 2005 and early 2006, Cooden Beach station underwent a minor refurbishment programme to bring the station in line with Southern's image (the company's dark green colour scheme was implemented). The improvements included new double glazing on the subways leading to the platforms and opening up the waiting rooms, which had been closed for at least a decade. The last major refurbishment, by Connex, opened up the old ticket office and shop and turned it into a Costcutter supermarket but a whole station refurbishment was never completed. The station had a ticket office since its change from a halt, as well as an adjoining shop; however since the latter days of British Rail and early Connex times, the station was unmanned and a single

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dispenser were the only station furniture. The introduction of the mini-market seems to have boosted visits to the station and trains now run more frequently. Although in 2008 the mini market was sold and a new ticket office was built. Cooden Beach is a penalty fare station with most trains operating Southern's strict Penalty Fares policy.

Services

All services at Cooden Beach are operated by Southern using EMUs and DMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to (stopping) * 1 tph to * 1 tph to The station is served by additional peak hour services between Ore, and .

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, Mainline East=y, Coastway East=y, FCC None=y, SE None=y Railway stations in East Sussex Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations DfT Category E stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1905 Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway Bexhill-on-Sea