No trains will stop at Lewes or Falmer from 5pm on Bonfire Night

Trains will not stop at Lewes, Falmer, Cooksbridge, Glynde or Southease from 5pm on Thursday 5 November, Lewes Bonfire Night. Normal stops return when services start on Friday morning.

The change comes in a joint notice from East Sussex County Council, Lewes District Council, Sussex Police, Southern Railway, Brighton & Hove Buses and the emergency services. They want to limit how many people travel into Lewes for the night, and they ask people who live outside the town to go to a fireworks event closer to home.

For anyone in Brighton & Hove who uses Falmer or Lewes, the times to note are the last trains out of Lewes. The 16:44 to Brighton calls at all stations to Brighton. The 16:55 to London Victoria calls at Cooksbridge and Wivelsfield. The 16:59 runs to Ore by way of Polegate and Eastbourne, and the 17:02 calls at all stations to Seaford except Southease.

Commuters coming back from London need to leave earlier. The last trains from Victoria to these stations leave at 3.24pm, for Eastbourne, and 3.54pm, for Ore. Some smaller stations, including Berwick and Southease, will have earlier last trains too.

The notice says all train times have been updated at southernrailway.com, so check a journey there before you set off on Thursday.

Drivers should expect road closures around Lewes from 4.45pm, including at the Ashcombe Roundabout, where the A27 meets the A277 Brighton Road.