Eridge railway station

Eridge railway station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves a rural district around Eridge in East Sussex. It is 35 miles 53 chains (57.39 km) from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern. There are currently major improvement works replacing the wooden staircase with modern ones and improving access for the disabled.

Eridge
LocationEridge, Wealden
England
Grid referenceTQ542345
Managed bySouthern
Platforms3
Other information
Station codeERI
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened3 August 1868
Pre-groupingLondon, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Post-groupingSouthern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Network SouthEast
Passengers
2015/16 0.125 million
2016/17 0.118 million
2017/18 0.122 million
2018/19 0.118 million
2019/20 0.130 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Train services from the station are provided by Southern. Also, heritage services connecting to Groombridge, High Rocks and Tunbridge Wells West are run by the Spa Valley Railway. There are good opportunities for walks from the station into the High Weald. The station has a small car park and there is a pub next to the station called the Huntsman.

Services

National Rail services at Eridge are operated by Southern using Class 171 DMUs. The current off-peak service in trains per hour is:[1]

Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the northbound service runs as far as Oxted only.

Spa Valley Railway services operate between Eridge and Tunbridge Wells West on selected days to connect to Oxted Line services.[2]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Southern
Oxted Line
Uckfield Branch
  Heritage railways
Groombridge   Spa Valley Railway   Terminus

History

At the time the station was opened, the village of Eridge Green was owned by the nearby Eridge Park, seat of the Earls of Abergavenny.

The station used to be a junction for services running towards Tonbridge via Tunbridge Wells West (closed 1985), to Eastbourne (via Heathfield and Hailsham) Cuckoo Line closed 1965 and to East Grinstead (closed 1967).

When the Uckfield line was singled in January 1990 all trains used the former up line and only the former up island platform was used by British Rail. The former down island platform was then abandoned but was restored by the Spa Valley Railway, a preserved railway company, who reopened the railway between Eridge and Tunbridge Wells West on 25 March 2011, with trains using the former down line for about 1 mile (1.6 km) north to Birchden Junction where the parallel single lines diverge.

There is a campaign, by the Wealden Line to attempt to re-open the railway between Uckfield and Lewes as a part of the National Rail network.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Rotherfield & Mark Cross   British Rail
Southern Region
Cuckoo Line		   Groombridge

References
  1. "Timetable 29: Uckfield and East Grinstead to London" (PDF). Southern, December 2019.
  2. Spa Valley Railway

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