The old station closed; the original booking hall with grand classical columns outside survived until the 1960s before it was demolished.

[4] The second station was rebuilt in order to increase platform capacity and reduce the narrow curvature of the track.

[5] On 1 October 1889 all passenger services were diverted from the original loop line between Lewes and Southerham Junction onto this alignment.

On 5 November 1960, severe flooding of the track caused the suspension of all electric services, and replaced by whatever steam locomotives were available.

The Borough Surveyor requested that the London-bound platforms at Lewes station should be blown up to allow flood water to escape via the railway track-bed.

[8][9][10] The line to Uckfield closed on 23 February 1969, in order that a relief road in Lewes could be built over the redundant trackbed.

[11] The station is located at a junction, where two western branches of the East Coastway line (from London and from Brighton) join to continue eastwards towards Eastbourne.