Lavant railway station

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Lavant railway station served the village of Lavant in West Sussex, England. It had one platform and stood on the old London, Brighton and South Coast Railway line between Midhurst and Chichester. The building included a booking office at road level, with passengers going down stairs to the platform in a cutting. It was designed by T. H. Myres in the LB&SCR Country House style, a look you can still see on some Bluebell Railway stations.

The station opened on 11 July 1881. Passenger use did not meet expectations, and passenger services ended on 6 July 1935. Freight traffic continued, including sugar beet, until January 1970 when the station closed completely. General freight had already stopped on 3 August 1968.

After closure, the line was shortened south of Lavant in 1972 to serve a gravel pit, which closed in 1991. The trackbed from Lavant to the junction with the West Coastway Line at Chichester is now the Centurion Way cycle path. The station building is today a private residence.