Durrington-on-Sea railway station
Railway station in West Sussex, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Durrington-on-Sea railway station is in Goring, a suburb of Worthing in the county of West Sussex. It is 12 miles 13 chains (19.6 km) down the line from Brighton. The station is operated by Southern.
General information | |||||
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Location | Goring, Worthing, West Sussex England | ||||
Grid reference | TQ120031 | ||||
Managed by | Southern | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | DUR | ||||
Classification | DfT category E | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 4 July 1937[1] | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 0.646 million | ||||
2019/20 | 0.645 million | ||||
2020/21 | 0.143 million | ||||
2021/22 | 0.354 million | ||||
2022/23 | 0.427 million | ||||
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Durrington-on-Sea railway station lies about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) south of the Worthing suburb of Durrington and is situated close to the headquarters of West Sussex Primary Care NHS Trust and a large HM Revenue and Customs office.
It was designed in the Modernist style by the architect to the Southern Railway, James Robb Scott[2] and opened on 4 July 1937.[3] The architecture and design of station has drawn criticism from locals 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.[1] Facilities at the station are limited and there are no toilets. There is a waiting room on platform 1, which opened in 2022.[4]