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 hope my review of Angmering isn't Angering you…read more This is not too far from Brighton, about 15 miles away in the countryside, and it's right next to a secondary school so Aletta (not Aletta but I'm in love with Aletta so)... a lot of... students use it to get to their little country houses and whatnot. How nice it must be to be middle class or rich in the suburbs of Sussex. Looking at you, Keane. It's a cute little station in the middle of nowhere with a nice dark brown house with a couple of chimneys on top of it. There's a level crossing right at the station which adds to the beauty for a nice element.

Angmering is a small station situated on the outskirts of Littlehampton, serving the suburb of East…read morePreston and the pretty village of Angmering to the north. It is on the 'West Coastway' line between Brighton and Chichester. 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. The present building was built in the 1860s. The station has a traditional but rather plain brick-built building with a generous awning on the eastbound platform (to Brighton/London). Facilities include a staffed ticket office, ticket machine, and a privately-run food outlet selling sandwiches, snacks, confectionery and hot and cold drinks. (NB No toilets). There's a decent sized car-park with two disabled parking bays, and cycle racks behind the building and also on the westbound platform. There's a privately run taxi-office just behind the main station building as well. There is level access to both platforms, via the road level crossing at the west end of the station. Off-peak, it's served by the half-hourly London-Littlehampton service, as well as the hourly Brighton-Portsmouth and Brighton-Southampton services. In the evenings there are also some local Littlehampton to Brighton all-stations services.

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.

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).

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?

It's a surprise to find a station serving as a small village as Balcombe, especially on a main…read moreline. However, the lack of good roads to and from the village, and its proximity to London, ensures a healthy flow of commuter traffic, with Balcombe acting as a rail-head for several villages around - it is used by just over 100,000 passengers a year. It's an attractive small station, the east side nestling in a cutting, and surrounded on all sides by mature trees and shrubs, and is very popular at week-ends with walkers exploring the surrounding woodlands. The station opened on 12 July 1841 as an intermediate station on the then London and Brighton Railway, later amalgamated into the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. The 1841 census shows that there were 550 railway labourers living in the village at the time - which must have been challenging for the locals! The station has been rationalised over the years, but retains a small building on the down (Brighton) platform, complete with Victorian canopy, ticket office and toilet. The office is only open at peak times (the toilet is also closed when the office is shut). If this is the case, you need to buy a 'permit to travel' from the machine and buy a ticket on board. The up platform (for London) has a small waiting shelter with step-free access from the car park, and there are car parking spaces and a cycle rack on this side of the station. A footbridge provides access between the platforms, and also provides the exit to London Road at the top of the cutting. Note that there is no step-free access to the Brighton platform. An oddity is the extension of the Brighton platform under the small tunnel at the south of the station: this is only used to board and alight from trains, and a sign warns not to enter the tunnel when a through (ie non-stopping) train is approaching which they do, at some speed. The service is fairly sparse: off-peak, Monday to Saturday there is one train an hour in each direction, on the First Capital Connect service from Bedford to Brighton via London Bridge. On Sundays, an hourly service is provided by Southern on the Brighton to London Victoria line. Additional services stop during rush hours in both directions. To the north of the station is Balcombe tunnel, 800 yards long, and to the south the famous Ouse viaduct, the first long railway viaduct in southern Britain. At 1,475 ft (450m) long, faced with Caen stone and with four Italianate pavilions at each end, it is regarded as one of the most attractive in the UK.

Polegate station serves the town of the same name on the northern edge of the Eastbourne…read moreconurbation, and is served by trains on the West Coastway line. It handles around 0.9m passengers a year. The first station on the site opened in 1846 on the Lewes to St Leonards railway line. It became the junction for Eastbourne and for the line northwards to Hailsham in 1849, with the Hailsham line being extended northwards to Eridge on the Uckfield-Groombridge Junction line in 1880. In 1881, to avoid Eastbourne-Hailsham trains having to reverse, a new station was opened further east. The Hailsham line closed in 1968, and the short direct line to Hastings has also closed, necessitating the reversal of all eastbound trains at Eastbourne. In 1986, the 1881 station was closed (it is now a restaurant) and a replacement opened on the site of the original 1846 station, on Polegate High street, and this is the station in use today. It has two platforms, with the main buildings on the north, Eastbourne-bound line. Facilities include a car park, ticket office, waiting rooms or shelters, ticket machines, and cycle storage, but no toilets. There is step-free access both to the ticket office and via short steep ramps to each platform. Between the platforms, there is a footbridge: level access is via the High Street level crossing (allow 5 minutes). Services are provided by Southern; there are two trains an hour to each of Brighton and London Victoria, both via Lewes; and four eastbound to Eastbourne, two of which continue to Hastings and Ore, and one to Ashford.

Just your average train station. Nice long and wide platforms with two waiting rooms (which are…read moreheated!) Good barrier system, although I was sad when the old signal box was removed. Great direct links to London, Brighton, Eastbourne and many more. Staff are nice, there are three (I think) ticket buying machines and two kiosks inside the station. Information packs readily available, you can buy Railcards from here too. I like the welcoming feeling of this station, which also has a night gate for late exits when the barriers are off. I'd recommend this to families, commuters and just about anyone due to the wide platforms and nice service.

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.

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