Rye railway station (East Sussex)

Rye
Front view of the main building
General information
Location	Rye, Rother England
Grid reference	TQ918205
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	RYE
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	13 February 1851
Passengers
2019/20	0.474 million
2020/21	0.153 million
2021/22	0.399 million
2022/23	0.431 million
2023/24	0.459 million
Listed Building – Grade II
Feature	Railway station
Designated	11 April 1980
Reference no.	1252164[1]
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

v t e Marshlink line
Legend
High Speed 1 to St Pancras International South Eastern Main Line to Charing Cross & Cannon Street Maidstone line to Swanley Ashford International 56 mi 12 ch 90.36 km Ashford to Ramsgate line to Canterbury West Ashford Steam Centre High Speed 1 to Channel Tunnel South Eastern Main Line to Dover Priory Newtown Sidings A2070 Park Farm (proposed) Ham Street 61 mi 51 ch 99.2 km A2070 Royal Military Canal 62 mi 77 ch 101.33 km Appledore 64 mi 50 ch 104 km Brookland Halt A259 Brookland Level Crossing (AOCL) 67 mi 20 ch 108.23 km Lydd Town 71 mi 55 ch 115.37 km New Romney and Littlestone-on-Sea Original alignment directly to New Romney Greatstone-on-Sea Halt Lydd-on-Sea Halt Dungeness Nuclear Fuel Transfer Lydd Camp Dungeness A259 Star Level Crossing (AHBC) 69 mi 40 ch 111.85 km A259 East Guldeford Level Crossing (AHBC) 70 mi 19 ch 113.04 km River Rother 71 mi 15 ch 114.57 km Rye 71 mi 36 ch 114.99 km River Tillingham Rye Harbour Winchelsea 73 mi 22 ch 117.92 km River Brede Snailham Halt Doleham 77 mi 43 ch 124.78 km Three Oaks 78 mi 65 ch 126.84 km Ore Tunnel ( 1042 yd 953 m ) Ore Carriage Sidings Ore 81 mi 42 ch 131.2 km Mount Pleasant Tunnel ( 230 yd 210 m ) Park Sidings 82 mi 8 ch 132.13 km Hastings 82 mi 33 ch 132.63 km East Coastway line to Eastbourne & Hastings line to Tonbridge
Mileage from Charing Cross via South Eastern Main Line

Rye railway station is a Grade II listed station, serving Rye, East Sussex, England. It is on the Marshlink line between Hastings and Ashford International and is the principal station between those two terminals. The station is a passing place between two single-track sections. Services are provided by Southern, usually between Eastbourne and Ashford.

A station at Rye was first planned in the early 1840s, though on a different route to what was opened. It was built by the South Eastern Railway as the central station on the line from Hastings to Ashford, opening in 1851. Despite recommendation for closure in the 1963 Beeching Report, it has remained open because of poor quality road connections. The station building was designed by William Tress;^[2] it was Grade II listed in 1980, while an 1894 signal box was listed in 2013.