Angmering is a railway station that serves Angmering, Rustington and East Preston, in West Sussex, England; it is situated about away from the centre of Angmering village. It is a stop on the West Coastway Line and lies down the line from .

History Angmering station was opened by the Brighton and Chichester Railway in March 1846, which soon became part of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in July 1846. it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.

Former services Until December 2007, South West Trains services passed through the station while running four trains per day to Brighton; however, these did not call at Angmering.

Until May 2022, one Great Western Railway service from to Brighton called at Angmering.

Facilities There is a ticket office, a waiting room, toilets, buffet, car park, taxi rank and bicycle storage.

Services All services at Angmering are operated by Southern, using electric multiple units.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:

2 tph to , via 4 tph to 2 tph to 1 tph to 1 tph to , via Littlehampton 2 tph to .

During peak hours, the station is served by a small number of direct trains between Brighton and Littlehampton, as well as a single peak hour service per day between and Littlehampton.

Deaths A local woman, Maureen Weselby, committed suicide by jumping in front of a Brighton-bound express, operated by South West Trains, in May 2006.

A local teenager, Adam Blackwood, was killed here when a Littlehampton-bound Southern train approaching the station knocked him down at a nearby pedestrian level crossing in early 2007.

Another local, 16-year-old Megan Moore of Angmering, was killed after being dragged under the 22:17 London Victoria to Bognor Regis train just before midnight on 21 November 2009.

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The station on a navigable O.S. map

Film of the station in 1937 is held by the Cinema Museum in London, on spool HM 00072.