Durrington-on-Sea railway station is in Goring, a

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in the county of

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. It is down the line from

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. The station is operated by Southern. Durrington-on-Sea railway station lies about south of the Worthing suburb of Durrington and is situated close to the headquarters of West Sussex Primary Care

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and a large

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office. It was designed in the

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by the architect to the Southern Railway, James Robb Scott and opened on 4 July 1937. The architecture and design of station has drawn criticism from a local newspaper as the "grimmest stop in the South". Owners (Network Rail) and operator (Southern), refute claims of problems and cite lack of central government funding to rebuild stations. Facilities at the station are limited and there are no toilets. There is a waiting room on platform 1, which opened in 2022.

Accessibility

There is step free access available from the street outside the main entrance to platform 1 (for services to London and Brighton) is available via the side gate. There is a footbridge with steps to platform 2 (services to Littlehampton and Portsmouth). Entrance to the ticket office is by steps from the street, although step-free access is possible via platform 1. In September 2008, the rear entrance direct to platform 2 was adapted for step free access.

Services

All services at Durrington-on-Sea are operated by Southern using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to via * 2 tph to * 2 tph to * 1 tph to

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via Littlehampton * 1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea During the peak hours on Mondays to Thursdays, there is an additional peak-hour service per day between and Littlehampton. On Sundays, the service to Portsmouth & Southsea is extended to

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, services between Littlehampton and London Victoria are reduced to hourly, the service to Chichester via Littlehampton does not run, and the station is served by an additional hourly service to Southampton Central.

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