Services
There are now many more trains from Victoria to Brighton than from London Bridge: a reversal of the original pattern. The line is four-tracked as far as Balcombe Tunnel junction, where it becomes a single pair through to Preston Park station. With the exception of a pair of platform loop lines at Haywards Heath station there are no passing places.
The fastest services from Brighton to Victoria call only at East Croydon and Clapham Junction, though some "express" services also call at Gatwick Airport. First Capital Connect services from Brighton to London Bridge continue via the Thameslink route across London to Blackfriars, City Thameslink, Farringdon and St Pancras, and then on to Luton and Bedford.
The Gatwick Express also uses the Brighton Mainline, with non-stop services running between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport. A train departs in both directions every 15 minutes, with a journey time of 30 minutes. Six weekday peak-hour Gatwick Express trains are extended to or from Brighton, up to London in the morning (calling at up to five other stations along the way) and down to Brighton in the evening.
Read more about this topic: Brighton Main Line
Famous quotes containing the word services:
“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
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—Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)