Crawley railway station

Crawley railway station is a railway station serving the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England. The station is 29½ miles (47 km) south of London Victoria and is operated by Southern. The station is the last stop on the Arun Valley Line before it rejoins the Brighton Main LineHistory. The single track branch line of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway between Three Bridges and Horsham was opened 14 February 1848. Crawley and Faygate were intermediate stations each with two platforms to enable trains to pass. The line was doubled throughout during 1862 to coincide with the extension of the railway from Horsham to the Arun Valley.The first Crawley station was situated immediately adjacent to the main High Street, with station buildings on the north side of the railway line.With the continued development of the New Town during the 1950s and 1960s it soon became clear that the station was too small, and a new station building was opened 28 July 1968 at the current site. The new station was funded by a six-storey commercial development above the new British Rail station. The original station buildings were demolished in August 1968, but the platforms still survive.