Preston Park railway station
Preston Park 
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Preston Park in 2006
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| Location | |
| Place | Preston Village |
| Local authority | City of Brighton and Hove |
| Grid reference | TQ299067 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PRP |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.374 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.410 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.439 million |
| 2014/15 |
 0.436 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.568 million |
| History | |
| 1 November 1869 | Opened (Preston) |
| 1 July 1879 | Renamed (Preston Park) |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Preston Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Preston Park railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England, serving Preston Village and the northern suburban areas of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. It is 49 miles 21 chains (79.3 km) down-line from London Victoria and is situated between Hassocks and Brighton stations.
It is managed by Southern, which also operates the trains that call, along with Thameslink.
There are also two spur lines which run from Preston Park through a tunnel to Hove.
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened a new station named Preston, on 1 November 1869 to serve the growing parish of Preston, then north of the Brighton boundary. The station was enlarged and remodelled to its present design in 1879 during the construction of the Cliftonville Curve spur line from the main line to Hove and the West Sussex coast line. The station was then renamed Preston Park although the nearby Preston Park did not exist until 1883.
In 1881 the railway murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton alighted at the station after having killed Isaac Frederick Gold and dumped his body in Balcombe tunnel.
The station has a pair of island platforms, linked by a subway; only three platform faces are now in operation. The three tracks through the station reduce to two before traversing Patcham Tunnel, almost two miles (3.2 km) further north.
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