Worthing railway station

Worthing
General information
Location	Worthing, West Sussex England
Grid reference	TQ145033
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	WRH
Classification	DfT category C[1]
History
Opened	24 November 1845
Passengers
2019/20	2.342 million
2020/21	0.698 million
2021/22	1.639 million
Interchange	66,718
2022/23	1.891 million
Interchange	18,160
2023/24	1.924 million
Interchange	33,158
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail & Road

Worthing railway station is the largest of the five stations serving the town of Worthing in West Sussex (The other stations being East Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea and Goring-by-Sea). It is 10 miles 46 chains (17.0 km) down the line from Brighton. The station is managed by Southern who operate all the services. It is one of the main stations on the West Coastway Line; all timetabled trains stop here.

At times in its history the station had been named Worthing Central. This name is sometimes incorrectly still used, either out of habit or intentionally to distinguish it from West Worthing and East Worthing.

Worthing is the only station in DfT category C that has not been given a subcategory; it is listed by the Department for Transport as simply "C", while all other stations in this group have been divided into C1 and C2.^[1]