The main station building, adjacent to the down line, as seen from the road. The station building is no longer used by the railway but is used by the Airworks paragliding centre, this being a very popular sport on the nearby South Downs. The commercial part of the building shows up the rest which at the date of photographing was still wearing rather tatty mixture of Network SouthEast and Connex colours! The station house on the right is used as private accommodation.

photograph by Peter Richards

As with Berwick, Glynde is a small country station on the LB&SCR line between Lewes and Polegate that has managed to survive the ups and downs of the railway in recent years and are still open to passengers, though not goods, today.

The present day Glynde station is unmanned, the buildings used for commercial and accommodation purposes only, and has lost its semaphore signals but retains its attractive ambience in a sleepy part of Sussex. The Signalbox, once a lean-to against the station building wall, is long gone too with the signals here now controlled by the Lewes Signalman. Coming to life for the brief period of the Glyndebourne Opera, the rest of the year is spent as a quiet byway on the busy main line to Eastbourne.

The photographs on this page were taken on 28 June 2003.

Present day entry to the station platforms is through the wicket gate on the left. This takes one through to the down platform with the up platform being reached by the fine overbridge.

photograph by Peter Richards

The generous sized shelter on the up platform. As well as this there is a further small one by the footbridge.

photograph by Peter Richards

The platform side of the main building photographed from under the footbridge, locked doors testifying to the station's present unmanned status. The end, white, building is the occupied station house.

photograph by Peter Richards

The rather grand covered footbridge with the road bridge beyond. On the left can be seen the steps leading to the down platform from the footbridge and the station entrance mentioned above. On the right of the photograph, just under the footbridge, can be seen a grey square mounted on a pole. This is the rear of a repeater signal for the platform starter at the other end of the up platform. The curve of the line and the footbridge making sighting of the starter well nigh impossible until a train is almost upon the signal!

photograph by Peter Richards

On the footbridge.

photograph by Peter Richards

The view up towards Lewes showing the curvature of the line and the two aspect colour light platform starter. This is almost always showing a red aspect as it is the approach signal for the nearby Beddingham Level Crossing where the railway crosses the very busy A27 main road.

photograph by Peter Richards

Due to the curvature of the platform the driver of an up train entering the station cannot see the platform starter, so a banner signal is provided to give him advance warning of the aspect being shown. Here the banner signal indicates that the starter is showing a proceed aspect. As can be seen, the up signals are controlled by Lewes Signalbox.

photograph by Peter Richards

The down platform starter is off for the 11:15 am 4-CigNº1855 all stations to Hastings service in the other platform to proceed, running some five minutes late. This signal is controlled from the Signalbox at the next station, Berwick.

photograph by Peter Richards

A class 377,Nº377115, having just called with the late-running 12:54pm service to Brighton, has been given a green aspect allowing it to depart from the station. As the train rounds the curve and approaches the level crossing the starter can be seen to be still showing a green aspect, contrary to normal modern day practice where the signal turns red as the train is passing.

photograph by Peter Richards

There is one very odd thing about Glynde (and Berwick) as this exert from the platform timetable showing the times of trains from Glynde to Berwick indicates. There are far more trains calling on a Sunday than on other days of the week!

photograph by Peter Richards

Once upon a time, long, long ago, this was the entrance to Glynde's goods yard.

photograph by Peter Richards