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Network Rail engineers will be rebuilding a crucial section of West Sussex’s railway next year, including a nine day period when there will be no trains at all through Horsham.

Wet and windy autumns are keeping Network Rail’s Southern Region’s leaf-busting team busy keeping passengers safe and on-time as thousands of leaves fall on tracks across the area.

Network Rail has installed three new lifts at Selhurst station, making access between the station entrance, ticket office and platforms much easier for customers with reduced mobility, as well as those with children, heavy luggage or shopping.

Passengers from three stations in West and East Sussex can now get on and off the full length of longer Southern trains thanks to platform extensions built by Network Rail and funded by the Department for Transport.

Over £500k has been invested at Aldrington station to improve the platforms; resulting in safer and easier access for passengers to and from trains.

• Thousands of Network Rail staff will work around the clock to deliver a multi-million-pound programme of work
• Most of the railway in Sussex and south London will remain open over the bank holiday weekend (29 – 31 August) but some routes will be affected

Network Rail is asking passengers and the community to help shape its proposals to remove the UK’s most operationally challenging railway junction as a public consultation on the scheme enters its final month.

Major repair and refurbishment work has been completed at Hurst Green station to upgrade and improve the platforms for passengers.