The borough of Worthing has five railway stations. From east to west, these are East Worthing, Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea and Goring-by-Sea. All are on the West Coastway Line, which takes a straight east–west route through the area,  and all are managed and operated by the Southern train operating company.

East Worthing opened in September 1905 as Ham Bridge Halt and was renamed in 1949. It retained a ticket office until the 1990s, but is now unstaffed.  The town’s main station, Worthing (formerly Worthing Central), is 0.9 miles (1.4 km) west.  It was opened on 24 November 1845, but the present structure dates from 1909. The old station building, further east, was preserved and is now listed at Grade II.  West Worthing station, a further 0.8 miles (1.3 km) on,  opened in 1889 to serve new residential development north of Heene. The main building is Italianate.  Before Durrington-on-Sea, another 0.8 miles (1.3 km) west, are train carriage stabling facilities, sheds and sidings.  Durrington-on-Sea, which was almost renamed Field Place in 1947 in reference to an 18th-century house nearby, opened in 1937.  Goring-by-Sea is 0.9 miles (1.4 km) further west and dates from 1846.  All stations have frequent daily services provided by Southern, to destinations such as London, Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton.  Worthing station also receives occasional long-distance trains operated by First Great Western.

Rail travel became quicker and more convenient from 1 January 1933, when the route between West Worthing and Brighton was electrified. Electric trains reached Durrington and Goring in 1938.  Freight traffic has declined in importance, but Worthing, West Worthing and Goring had goods yards until the 1960s; West Worthing’s supported the town’s market gardening industry for many years.

There are plans for Worthing to have a direct hourly link to the international station at London St Pancras and on to Cambridge as part of the £5 billion Thameslink Programme. Originally envisaged to be completed in 2000, the project is now provisionally scheduled to be completed in 2015

via Transport in Worthing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.