Travel warning over weekend level crossing closure

Rail and road users are being advised to plan ahead as an East Sussex level crossing will be closed for a whole weekend at the end of November.

Work to replace railway track on the Portslade level crossing on Boundary Road will close it for two days.

The closure will begin at 01:00 GMT on 30 November and is scheduled to be completed by 02:00 on 2 December.

Throughout the closure, alternative travel plans will need to be used.

Motorists are being told to use the A270 Old Shoreham Road as a diversionary route.

Buses will operate instead of trains throughout the closure between Brighton and Littlehampton.

Southern trains that usually run between London Victoria and Littlehampton will be diverted to terminate at Brighton.

Services will continue to run between Littlehampton and Portsmouth Harbour/Southampton Central.

Local bus services 1X, 6 and 46 will all be diverted.

For pedestrians, the old underpass will remain open.

A shuttle bus will operate for people unable to use the underpass, picking up and dropping off between Portslade railway station car park, north of the level crossing (next to the cycle hub), and Portslade station (stop C) outside Station Kebab House.

The shuttle will operate throughout the whole closure of the crossing.

Lucy McAuliffe, Network Rail’s Sussex route director, said: “To complete the work, we need to close the railway, and as the work is taking place near the level crossing, it needs to close as well.

“We’re asking motorists to leave a bit more time to travel as the diversion will mean slightly longer journeys.

“Thank you for bearing with us while we work to improve the railway.”

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