Rye railway station serves Rye in East Sussex, England. It is on the Marshlink Line 111⁄4 miles (18 km) east of Hastings providing a passing place between two single track sections. Train services are provided by Southern. The staggered platforms are linked by footbridge. Owing to a prolonged threat by British Rail to close the line, the station remained unmodernised and gaslit well into the 1970s.
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