Trains at Three Bridges, BML, 04/03/24

Three Bridges railway station is located in and named after the village of Three Bridges, which is now a district of Crawley, West Sussex, England. It is at the point where the Arun Valley Line diverges from the Brighton Main Line and Thameslink, 29 miles 21 chains (47.1 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill.
The London and Brighton Railway merged with others to become the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846, and the branch to Horsham was opened two years later. Three Bridges was enlarged in July 1855 with the construction of a branch line to East Grinstead and again enlarged in 1906/9 at the time of the quadrupling of the main line. The present ticket office was then built on the west side of the line and new platforms and station buildings for the new lines.
Three Bridges was a key site for the electrification scheme for the Brighton main line during 1932/33, housing the control room for the scheme, and was one of three locations where current was taken from the national network and transmitted to substations. Electric multiple unit trains began to run between London and Three Bridges on 17 July 1932. The line was electrified throughout on 30 December.
Three Bridges from expresses bound for the south coast was abandoned by the Southern Railway.
The line from Three Bridges to Horsham was electrified in May 1938. The single-track branch line to East Grinstead was never electrified. It remained steam operated, using tank locomotives of the M7 and H classes hauling push-pull trains.
After the end of steam operation in 1964, it was then briefly operated by diesel-electric multiple units of British Rail Class 205 but closed on 2 January 1967.
An engine shed was opened in July 1848 on a site to the west of the station.
This was closed in 1909 to make way for the enlargement of the station and a new depot was established in the fork between the Brighton and Horsham lines in 1911, which remained open until June 1964.
The original small goods yard to the south of the station was greatly extended during the First World War and was used as a marshalling yard for munitions trains heading for the Continent. Trains from the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway were brought here for onward transmission to Newhaven Harbour.
On Sundays, the services to London Victoria and Cambridge reduce to hourly. The service from Horsham to Peterborough does not run, but instead one of the Bedford trains ordinarily terminating at Three Bridges is extended to Horsham.
During the night, the station is served by a half-hourly Thameslink service to Bedford (not calling at London Bridge). This service runs on Sunday-Friday nights with an hourly Southern service to London Victoria on Saturday nights.
Duration of the video: 12:33 - 14:00
We’ll be seeing services by Thameslink, Southern, Gatwick Express and hopefully some freight as well in the duration of the video.
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I really enjoyed my experience that was spent at Three Bridges especially with the amount of variety of trains I managed to see in the time I spent there for plus it was quite an enjoyable station to come to especially its a station I haven’t visited before but it’ll be worth revisiting the station at some point.
My next station will be Gatwick Airport which is only a few stops up the line from Three Bridges never visited Gatwick Airport before I’m sure it’ll be a great station to come to so until then thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.

[@julieblackman8636]

Nice mate

[@eastlondontransport6468]

Thanks 👍

[@Welshy1717]

so thats Three Bridges, i am thinking of planning an adventure on the Thameslink line, i done all the stations from Bedford to St Pancras (although i not seen T.L platform at St Pan)

[@eastlondontransport6468]

It’s up to you but you tend to have freight passing through Three Bridges occasionally 😊