Glynde railway station serves

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. The station is unstaffed and a PERTIS

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machine was installed in 2008, in connection with a Penalty Fares Scheme. This has since been replaced by a

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self-service

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. The station is located near to the

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Opera House, although better connections to the opera house are available from , from which shuttle buses run. The former Station building is occupied by Airworks paragliding school.

Services

All services at Glynde are operated by

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to * 1 tph to via During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional hourly service between Brighton and and there are also a number of peak hour services to . On Saturdays, the service to Hastings is extended to Ore and on Sundays it terminates at .

Accidents and incidents

On 4 January 1887, a passenger train crashed into a stray wagon that had toppled over onto the main line during shunting operations. It is not clear how the wagon had toppled over. A guard on the passenger train sustained broken ribs.

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