Request for ratification of decision to close Newhaven Marine Station
| Date | 24 June 2020 |
| Section | Closures |
Edward Sexton
Fares and Passenger Benefits Officer
Passenger Services
Department for Transport
Zone 4/21, Great Minster House
33 Horseferry Road
London SW1P 4DR
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By e-mail only
Dear All,
RATIFICATION REQUEST FOR CLOSURE OF NEWHAVEN MARINE
STATION
Following the consultation in respect of the proposal to discontinue the use of
Newhaven Marine station, Chris Heaton-Harris, Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State for Transport has agreed to the publication of the summary of responses and
that the Office of Rail and Road (‘ORR’) be requested to formally ratify the closure.
Paragraph 24 of ORR’s Procedures for Reviewing Closure References suggests that
the summary of responses be published for four weeks prior to reference. The
summary was published on 24 June 2020
Documents making up the closure submission are:
1. Closure consultation document
2. Closure Notice (Annex C – of the consultation document)
3. Copy of Closure Notice published in newspapers:
•Brighton Evening Argus 15 and 22 January 2020
•Guardian 15 and 22 January 2020
•The Times 15 and 22 January
4. List and photographs of closure notices at stations
5. Copy of consultation letters from the Minister to the local MP, and the
Department to named stakeholders (listed in Annex B of the consultation
document)
6. List and copies of statutory consultation responses received
7. Summary of consultation responses with DfT comments.
Electronic copies of these documents are attached to this e-mail.
If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours faithfully,
Edward Sexton
Fares and Passenger Benefits Officer
1
Open consultation
Newhaven Marine station
closure
Published 15 January 2020
Foreword
Network Rail, as network operator, proposes closure of Newhaven Marine
station. This proposal is in accordance with the Railways closures
guidance within the Railways Act 2005.
By closing the station, Network Rail would be able to focus rail industry
resources on improving the passenger rail service in this area and support
regeneration of the port of Newhaven and the surrounding area in
partnership with East Sussex County Council. The track will remain as a
siding for berthing trains, as now, but also for freight train access to
Newhaven Port where a new dock and freight handling facility is due to
open.
Executive summary
Introduction
Newhaven Marine, along with Newhaven Town and Newhaven Harbour, is
one of 3 stations located in Newhaven, East Sussex. Newhaven Town and
Newhaven Harbour are calling points on the Seaford line between Lewes
and Seaford, and Newhaven Marine branches off the line just south of
Newhaven Harbour. Newhaven Marine was originally built to provide rail
passengers access to the Newhaven ferry terminal and was served by
through trains from London Victoria.
In the 1980s the Newhaven ferry terminal was relocated north to a section
of the port closer to Newhaven Town station, and passenger services into
Newhaven Marine were slowly reduced until 2006, when services were
suspended following safety concerns over the dangerous condition of the
station canopy. Both the canopy and the station building were demolished
in 2017. A single daily service in and out of the station operated as empty
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