West Coastway line

Five companies built this coast road in rails between 1840 and 1889; the last of it runs out over the water on piles into Portsmouth Harbour, opened on 2 October 1876.

Stations

1. 0 kmBrighton +1
2. 2 kmHove
3. 3 kmAldrington
4. 5 kmPortslade
5. 6 kmFishersgate
6. 7 kmSouthwick
7. Show 18 more stations

   1. 9 kmShoreham-by-Sea
   2. 13 kmLancing
   3. 16 kmEast Worthing
   4. 17 kmWorthing
   5. 18 kmWest Worthing
   6. 20 kmDurrington-on-Sea
   7. 21 kmGoring-by-Sea
   8. 25 kmAngmering
   9. 32 kmFord
   10. 36 kmBarnham
   11. 46 kmChichester
   12. 48 kmFishbourne
   13. 51 kmBosham
   14. 53 kmNutbourne
   15. 55 kmSouthbourne
   16. 57 kmEmsworth
   17. 59 kmWarblington
   18. 60 kmHavant
8. 61 kmBedhampton
9. 67 kmHilsea
10. 70 kmFratton +1
11. 72 kmPortsmouth and Southsea +1
12. 73 kmPortsmouth Harbour +1

The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 174147: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of Southern
• Wikipedia has an article for this line

Questions and answers

How long is the West Coastway line?

The West Coastway line runs 73 km from Brighton to Portsmouth Harbour.

How long does the West Coastway line take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 38 min for the 73 km. That is an average of 45 km/h end to end.

Who runs the West Coastway line?

Southern.

How old is the West Coastway line?

The line has been in service since 1876. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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