Not to be confused with Hermann Goring By Sea, which is a town full of fascists, I suppose. Might…read morebe at home in America then? This is one of five stations in Worthing, and it's one of the tiny ones, with a the tiny little brown building on the platform with a blue overhang. It's cute and doesn't have too many people manning it day or night, and it's just a cute little place with a cute little bridge over it, and not much going on.

A small station serving the seaside town of Goring-by-Sea, between Worthing and Littlehampton on…read morethe West Coastway line. It is used by just under 0.5m passengers a year. The station was opened on 16 March 1846 when the London, Brighton & South Coast railway line was extended from Worthing to Ford Junction, before its extension onwards to Chichester and Littlehampton. The main station building looks original, although the canopy has been renewed. Facilities include a part-time ticket office, cycle storage (part sheltered), a small car park and a platform shelter on platform 2 (westbound). There are neither toilets nor a taxi rank. There is level access to both platforms, via the road level crossing at the west end of the station. Train services are operated mostly by Southern (http://www.southernrailway.com) . Off-peak, it's served by the half-hourly London-Littlehampton service, as well as the hourly services to Southampton (daytime) or Portsmouth (late afternoon/evening) and Brighton. In the evenings there are also some local Littlehampton to Brighton all-stations services.

I've been Arund and about this area many times, or in Spanish, "Arund el area", and this is the key…read morerail station in this proverbial neck of the proverbial woods. Much like a lot of the stations in Sussex, this has a brown brick building that looks like a pub or a large stately country house with two huge chimneys on it. Arundel is actually an important transport hub for this little region, with Littlehampton and other important towns being served from here. So it's definitely a nice station and has been around for a long time, first opening in 1863. It has white platforms and the old building really complements the region. It's definitely one of the better stations in the region in my opinion.

Arundel's railway station is situated about half a mile south east of the historic town, just off…read morethe busy A27. The station is staffed only part time, but has retained the traditional station buildings and attractive awnings on the London-bound (up) platform, and two substantial awnings on the down platform. There is also a splendid historic goods shed at the southern end of the London platform. The route now known as the Arun Valley Line was built in phases, with services reaching Horsham from Three Bridges in 1848. The line came as far south as Pulborough in 1859, as part of a line via Midhurst to Petworth, before the section through Arundel to the Brighton-Chichester coast line was finally completed in 1863. Services on the line are basically half-hourly in the weekday off-peak, with Arundel being served by the Bognor portion of trains otherwise going to Southampton or Portsmouth Harbour. Passengers for Brighton and other destinations can change at Ford or Barnham. The station has a taxi office and rank and a very large car-park, although other facilities (including the waiting room and access to toilets) are only available when staffed. There is a half hourly bus service from the end of the station approach to Arundel town, Brighton and Worthing operated by Stagecoach buses, although Arundel is only a 10 minute walk away. There is level access to the London bound platform only.

I've been here before Corona, but not "Durring" Corona…read more This is basically a suburb of Worthing in a little town called Durrington by the English Channel, and it's a really nice station with a typical brown brick building, which is standard for the train stations of the area, but it looks totally different, sort of like a town hall or Cathedral - or even a prison or school or something. It's odd and someone just told me that it's the modernist style. It's 12 miles from Brighton and in some ways totally different to a lot of the other stations around here. I gave this station the extra star for its weird originality.

Durrington-on-Sea is a station on the West Coastway Line from Brighton to Chichester, Portsmouth…read moreand Southampton; and serves the suburb of Worthing of the same name, which is also home to the headquarters of West Sussex Primary Care Trust, Worthing College and various central government offices. It handles over 650,000 passengers a year and is managed by Southern. The railway line was first opened in 1846, but the present station was built by the Southern Railway in a restrained, red-brick version of the Art Deco style as late as 1937, a year before the line was electrified. The main building on the northern (eastbound) platform survives in almost its original condition, albeit in need of some refurbishment. It has a square, central tower and a recessed entrance porch, reached by a wide flight of steps down to the spacious station approach. The tower has decorative relief pattern in brick. When built, the station approach side had a large clock on the tower, with the words 'Southern Railway' and 'Durrington Station' arranged symmetrically on the frontage. It is served by three trains an hour in each direction, off-peak: westbound, two to Littlehampton and one to Southampton; and eastbound, two to Victoria and one to Brighton. There is step free access from street outside main entrance to platform 1 (to London/Brighton) via a side gate, which also provides step-free access to the ticket office, via the platform. There is a footbridge with steps to platform 2 (to Littlehampton/Chichester), which can also be reached by a ramped footpath, available until 9.30pm (exit over third party land to Barrington Road). There is no level access within the station between the booking hall and platform 2; the route via external roads requires at least a 10 minute walk.

Most folks walk on by and don't notice this train station, yet this is a delightful and historical…read moreEdwardian building with a hellava backstory. The station dates from 1864 and in its 158 years it has been blown down by a hurricane and burnt down because a coat had been left to warm on one of the stoves in the waiting room in October, 1899. By 1865 the Pier had been built, there were houses in West Street. A number of religious groups were opening churches at the time and new streets were being developed. Pubs were opening, and Bognor's population was about 3,000. The area in which the station was built was at the end of Dorset Gardens. It was at that time outside the town. However, it was not long before the town grew out to its new station. The Bank Holiday Act in 1871, which fixed holidays for Christmas, helped to increase rail traffic in the season. Excursion trips to the seaside became a part of the lives of millions of people. National newspapers were advertising cheap day trips to Bognor and the Daily News of May 28, 1900, announced all its arrangements for trains over the Whitsuntide holidays, including late trains for those working in London on Saturdays. In 1910 the return fare from London to Bognor was three shillings (15p) and because of this, high numbers continued to come into the town. In 1913 it was reported that on Wednesday, July 9, there were 4,350 day visitors in the town. The world's first travel agent Thomas Cook reported that in 1918 there had been more than 35,000 visitors to the town 'hard to believe, especially when the population was only 8,500.' So it's population had trebled in 53 years and 93 years later, by 2011, it was just over 24,000. The four platform station (and the town) was re named Bognor Regis in 1930 as it was the place of the King's (George V) recuperation from serious illness. Regis 'of the King'. The king who was 70 when he died had suffered for years from chronic bronchitis (heavy smoking didn't help) and in 1928 suffered septicaemia from which he never recovered. Bognor is one of the oldest recorded Anglo - Saxon place names in Sussex. In a document of AD 680, it is referred to as Bucgan ora meaning Bucge's (an Anglo-Saxon name) shore, or landing place. It has survived two world wars, the swinging 60's, the strike-bound 70's, all the polarisation of the Thatcher years, the rise and fall of New Labour. On its 154th birthday (2018) it got a £2.5 million refurbishment and improvements including a new business creative digital hub with an ultra-fast internet connection for leasing to start-up businesses and freelancers but when I was there in July 2022 it was dodo dead. A hive of inactivity. Maybe a victim of wu flu. Not just any old train station then?

Great place to travel from..staff helpful and there's a kiosk to hand while you wait to start your…read morejourney. There are toilets and a bus stop on both sides of the station.

A lol of platforms and a nice cafe with decent food. There is also a waiting room and local shops…read morenearby

If you don't wanna Reagan someone, but also don't wanna Trump them, why not Bushem? That has…read morenothing to do with this and Republicans have a lot of blood on their hands. A lot. This is just a tiny village in West Sussex that only has buildings on one side of the platform, a station that looks like somebody's house with a little awning hanging over the platform, and it's super cute and nice, but it's tiny and 31 miles away from Brighton. It has a level crossing right on one end of the platform and it's a cute little town that's pretty typical of a lot of these stations in this part of the country.

The pretty little station at Bosham serves the historic village of the same name a mile and a half…read moreto the south. Opened in 1847 on the line from Chichester to Portsmouth, the building was rebuilt in 1902 in an attractive country vernacular style. It still houses the ticket office, open Monday to Fridays. There is also a small car park and covered cycle racks. There is step free access to both platforms - access between them is via the level crossing (there is also a footbridge). Train services are operated by Southern, and the basic off-peak service is one train an hour on the Littlehampton to Portsmouth stopping service, although there are through trains to and from London in the peaks and weekday evenings.

This railway station is worthing its weight in gold…read more This is a large station for the town of Worthing, and actually the largest of five stations that serves Worthing, including East Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington and Goring. It's only 10 miles from Brighton, and is one of the stations where a lot of trains coming through this region stop. It's also grade two listed because it's such a beautiful old building. It's large and very gorgeous. It has a big bridge over it as well, which a lot of the stations around here do.

Worthing is the major stop on the 'West Coastway' train route between Brighton and Portsmouth. This…read morebusy, 3-platform station used by over 2 million passengers a year has recently been completely refurbished and is now resplendent with bright paint and newly glazed canopies. The station opened in 1845 as an extension from the Brighton to Shoreham line, and was extended further west in stages, reaching Chichester in 1846 and Portsmouth in 1847. The attractive original flint and brick station building of 1845 survives as offices to the east of the present station. This was built in red brick in 1908, and incorporates the remnants of a second station built in 1869; the most notable feature of this part is the transverse platforms canopy, with its very unusually 'Star of David' brackets at the top of the cast-iron columns. The station has generous platform canopies and, as well as a ticket offices and toilets, has a small newsagents, café, car-park, covered cycle storage and a cash machine. Bus stops outside provide services to local villages and the town centre, 1km away. The station is staffed 24 hours a day, although the ticket office has more limited opening hours. It is served by all the West Coastway services. The week-day off-peak services are: Victoria (twice-hourly) via Hove and Gatwick Airport; Brighton (4 per hour); West Worthing (half-hourly); Littlehampton (half-hourly); Portsmouth (hourly) and Southampton (hourly).

Well, I think Ford is a rather quaint country station! It serves the small community of Ford…read morenearby, as well as the nearby Open Prison, and the village of Climping. It's situated on the Brighton-Southampton 'West Coastway' line, and is also just west of the junction for the direct line to London via Arundel. The station was opened in 1846 on the line from Brighton to Chichester, and became a junction when the line to London via Arundel opened in 1863. However, Barnham, 4 minutes to the west, functions as the real junction, as not all trains stop at Ford. It has a direct train to London once an hour on the service to/from Bognor, as well as the local stopping services on the West Coastway line from Littlehampton and Brighton to / from Portsmouth, giving five departures an hour, off-peak on weekdays. The station is generally staffed until lunchtimes only, after which you have to buy a 'permit to travel' from a machine and pay the guard on the train. Both platforms have brick buildings with old-fashioned canopies. There's no buffet, but there's a pub five minutes' walk down the road towards Climping. Both platforms have step-free access via the end gates adjacent to the level crossing. There is a small cycle rack, too. It's pleasant enough on a warm day in summer, when it feels delightfully rural, but windswept, dark winter evenings may be another matter

This is not a nice place! Unless you are escaping from Ford open prison. Its not a stop to use…read moreunless one has too. I had to change here for Southampton. Barnham is the next stop up or Littlehampton from the other direction. It is bleak and nothing there to entertain oneself with.

Not to be confused with Wets Worthing which is when it rains, or when Barbi comes here while…read morearoused. This is a beautiful white building that is probably the prettiest of the 5 railway stations in Worthing, and was supposed to be the southern Terminus of a main line but is now just a little building and a little station that doesn't get a whole lot of traffic. It's still gorgeous and still one of the nicer stations around here, although the main station of Worthing is a listed building.

West Worthing is a station in the suburbs of modern Worthing, a mile or so west of the main…read morestation, and half a mile south of the historic village of West Tarring. The station was built by the railway contractor J T Firbank and opened in 1889. It was originally planned as part of a scheme to develop a new, upmarket resort to the west side of the Worthing, at the head of Grand Avenue, at the end of which were planned a pier and major new hotels. The building was provided with a spacious main station building and ticket office in a grand Italianate style. The building still survives, and is in excellent condition. Alas, financial problems and a disastrous typhoid epidemic in 1893 brought an end to the scheme, and West became a minor suburban station. In 1933 the Southern Railway electrified the main line between London, Brighton and Worthing, and carriage sheds (recently demolished) for the new service were erected at West Worthing. This started a pattern of services still evident today, with a half-hourly service of all-stations stopping trains from Brighton to West Worthing. In addition, the station has two trains an hour to Littlehampton and one an hour to Portsmouth off-peak. In the other direction the station has a half hourly service to London via Hove and Gatwick, and three trains an hour to Brighton. The ticket office has limited opening hours, but there is a ticket machine on the eastbound platform and a 'permit to travel' machine on the westbound side. Both platforms are accessible via ramps: there is also a subway (not accessible) between the platforms. There is no car parking, but storage for 20 bicycles.

Not to be confused with Cheech-Chesthair, which is Cheech from Cheech and Chong, and a commentary…read moreon how fucking hairy he is. Chichester has a large station, situated 28 miles from Brighton, and as you would imagine it is right on the way to Southampton. It's dark because it's pretty much closed in and unusual, and only has two platforms but feels larger than it is, despite having a big road coming right across it at one end, which is a level crossing. It has a greenish blue bridge over it which looks pretty like me and Barbi, and is a cute little enclosed station for this lovely little town.

Horrid staff. Horrid and unhelpful. Running late for a train with my four children and the man by…read morethe ticket barrier was rude unhelpful. Kindness and a smile cost nothing why is it so hard to come by these days?