Photo: Callum Parker on UnsplashBrighton
🚆 ~1 min from Brighton · alight at Brighton
The Lanes, the Pavilion's onion domes, the pier, the people-watching. London-on-Sea, unapologetically.
Days out by train from Brighton
Brighton is one of the best-connected coastal cities in Britain, which makes it an excellent base for days out as well as a destination in its own right. London is under an hour. The Sussex and Kent countryside is on the doorstep. And the coastal route east opens up a string of interesting towns that most Londoners only visit by car.
Closest from Brighton: Brighton (1 min), Royal Pavilion, Brighton (1 min), Lewes Castle (8 min).
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Days out reachable by train from Brighton
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Photo: Qmin / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia CommonsRoyal Pavilion, Brighton
🚆 ~1 min from Brighton · alight at Brighton
George IV's Indo-Chinese seaside fantasy — a banqueting room under a dragon-hung chandelier weighing a tonne.
Photo: Arild Vågen / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsLewes Castle
🚆 ~8 min from Brighton · alight at Lewes
Climb the keep for the best view of the Downs, then the bookshops and antique dens of Lewes below.
Photo: Chris Downer / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsNewhaven Fort
🚆 ~11 min from Brighton · alight at Newhaven Town
A Victorian cliff fort of tunnels and gun emplacements — recently restored, with the Dieppe Raid's sobering story.
Photo: Les Chatfield / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBluebell Railway
🚆 ~18 min from Brighton · alight at East Grinstead
Britain's first preserved standard-gauge line — Victorian carriages through eleven miles of Sussex woods.
Photo: Andy Potter / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsWWT Arundel
🚆 ~22 min from Brighton · alight at Arundel
Safari-by-boat through reedbeds under Arundel Castle's gaze — the gentlest wildlife day out in Sussex.
Photo: Egjoni98 / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsArundel Castle
🚆 ~22 min from Brighton · alight at Arundel
The Duke of Norfolk's magnificent pile above the Arun — the Collector Earl's Garden alone is worth the ticket.
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsAmberley Museum
🚆 ~22 min from Brighton · alight at Amberley
A chalk-pit village of working industrial heritage — narrow-gauge trains, vintage buses and craftspeople at their benches.
Photo: Piotr Zarobkiewicz / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia CommonsPevensey Castle
🚆 ~25 min from Brighton · alight at Pevensey & Westham
Where William landed in 1066 — a medieval castle inside a Roman fort, still with WWII pillboxes hidden in its walls.
Photo: Charlesdrakew / Public domain via Wikimedia CommonsFishbourne Roman Palace
🚆 ~35 min from Brighton · alight at Fishbourne
The largest Roman residence north of the Alps — the Cupid on a Dolphin floor is the finest mosaic in Britain.
Photo: Annie Spratt on UnsplashHastings & 1066 Country
🚆 ~37 min from Brighton · alight at Hastings
Old Town net huts, two funiculars, and the battlefield itself up the road at Battle.
Photo: Antony McCallum / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBodiam Castle
🚆 ~38 min from Brighton · alight at Bodiam (Kent & E. Sussex Railway)
The castle every sandcastle is trying to be — perfectly moated, and reachable by steam train.
That’s 12 of 69 days out reachable by train from Brighton. See them all matched to your exact location →