Uckfield railway station
Uckfield 
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Present station before construction of new ticket office in 2010
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| Location | |
| Place | Uckfield |
| Local authority | District of Wealden |
| Grid reference | TQ473209 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | UCK |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.445 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.538 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.547 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.552 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.481 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Lewes and Uckfield Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London, Brighton and South Coast Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| 18 October 1858 | Opened |
| January 1990 | Track singled |
| 13 May 1991 | Relocated |
| 9 December 2000 | Original station demolished |
| 16 March 2010 | Rebuilt |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Uckfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Uckfield railway station is the southern terminus of a branch of the Oxted Line in England, serving the town of Uckfield, East Sussex. It is 46 miles 8 chains (74.2 km) down-line from London Bridge; the preceding station is Buxted.
The station and all trains that call are operated by Southern.
The line used to continue to Lewes and Brighton until 1969.
The first station was opened in 1858 by the Lewes and Uckfield Railway Company and was situated south of the High Street level crossing. It became a through station when the line was extended to Tunbridge Wells West in 1868. With the closure of the line south to Lewes in 1969 the original station found itself stranded on the wrong side of a level crossing on the High Street which created traffic congestion whenever a train was arriving or departing from the station. The decision was therefore made to close the original station and to open a new station on the other side of the High Street level crossing. The present Uckfield station opened in 1991 replacing the original structure which was sited 55 yards (50 m) to the south.The original station was demolished on 9 December 2000 after it had been damaged by flooding.
As part of Network Rail's national stations improvement programme, Uckfield received a new station building to replace the 1991 portakabin-type structure which was deemed "not fit for purpose". The new building was built to Network Rail's modular, pre-fabricated design used at Mitcham Eastfields and Greenhithe. The components for Uckfield's new station building - consisting of a ticket office, public toilet, staff accommodation, ticket hall and café - were manufactured by Britspace in Yorkshire and installed by contractors Bryen & Langley. The new building, which cost £750,000, was opened for passenger use on 16 March 2010.
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