Gatwick Airport railway station
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Gatwick Airport station is the railway station at Gatwick Airport that provides a direct rail connection to London. The station platforms are located directly below the airport’s South Terminal, and the ticket office is adjacent to that terminal’s concourse. The station is currently one of seventeen in the United Kingdom to be owned and managed by Network Rail.
Train services are provided by Gatwick Express, Southern, Southeastern, First Great Western, First Capital Connect and Virgin Trains.
History
The present station dates from 1958, when it was rebuilt and renamed to coincide with the expansion of the Airport. However, the station has been in use since 1891, when it was opened by London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as Gatwick station. An even earlier station on the site had been closed in 1876. From 1946 until 1958 it was named Gatwick Racecourse.External links
- [Station information] on from Network Rail
- [Train times] and [station information] for from National Rail
- [Map] and [aerial photo] of from Multimap.com
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0.5em auto; text-align: center;" |- ! Preceding station ! colspan="3" | National Rail ! Following station
|- style="text-align: center;"
| rowspan="2" | Horley
| style="background:#8CC63E;" |
| Southern
Brighton Main Line
| style="background:#8CC63E;" |
| rowspan="2" | Three Bridges
|- style="text-align: center;"
| style="background:#FECB09;" |
| Southeastern
Horsham to Tunbridge Wells
(via Gatwick and Redhill)
| style="background:#FECB09;" |
|- style="text-align: center;" | Redhill | style="background:#FF0000;" | | Virgin Trains | style="background:#FF0000;" | | rowspan="2" | Haywards Heath |- style="text-align: center;" | East Croydon | style="background:#FF0000;" | | Virgin Trains | style="background:#FF0000;" |
|- style="text-align: center;" | Redhill | style="background:#001385;" | | First Great Western | style="background:#001385;" | | rowspan="2" | Terminus |- style="text-align: center;" | London Victoria | style="background:#ff2400;" | | Gatwick Express | style="background:#ff2400;" |
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