Wivelsfield railway station
Wivelsfield 
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| Location | |
| Place | Burgess Hill |
| Local authority | District of Mid Sussex |
| Grid reference | TQ320200 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | WVF |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| 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 |
 0.493 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.496 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.500 million |
| 2014/15 |
 0.479 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.475 million |
| History | |
| 1854 | First station opened at Keymer Junction |
| 1 August 1886 | Present station opened |
| 1 July 1896 | Renamed (Wivelsfield) |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wivelsfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Wivelsfield railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England, serving the northern parts of Burgess Hill including World's End, in West Sussex. Despite the station's name, the village of Wivelsfield actually lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) to the northeast. It is 40 miles 52 chains (65.4 km) down-line from London Victoria and is situated between Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill on the main line. It is managed by Southern.
Trains calling at Wivelsfield are operated by Southern and Thameslink.
The station is just north of Keymer Junction, where the East Coastway Line via Plumpton diverges from the main line.
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened a station called Keymer Junction on the Lewes line, just beyond the junction, towards the end of 1854, although, it appears that some trains may have called at Keymer Crossing from the completion of the junction in 1847. The station was closed on 1 November 1883 to allow for the proposed remodelling of the junction. However, when the railway later sought Parliamentary authority to abandon their planned changes, they were required to provide a replacement station to the north of the junction on the present site.
The second Keymer Junction station was opened on 1 August 1886 and retained that name until 1 July 1896 when it was renamed Wivelsfield. Construction of the new station involved widening a narrow, high embankment. Just over two months after it opened, heavy rain caused a landslip which caused a long section of the Up (northbound) platform, and the waiting room building, to collapse and fall down the embankment.
On 23 December 1899, a serious accident happened here, when a red signal was obscured by thick fog. A train from Brighton collided with a boat train from Newhaven Harbour at 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), and six passengers were killed and twenty seriously injured. The accident resulted in improvements made to the signalling at Keymer Junction.
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