Arundel railway station serves the market town of Arundel in West Sussex. The station is on the eastern side of the town, about from the High Street, across the River Arun. It is down the line from via .
The station is situated on the A27 and is the transport hub for many settlements in the Arun District area, including Angmering and Wick, for passengers joining London-bound services to the capital and Gatwick Airport. The station is served by the No. 9 Stagecoach bus service that operates between Arundel, Littlehampton, Rustington, and Shoreham; bus stops are outside the station on the A27.
The station can accommodate 12 coach trains and is one of the few stations along the Arun Valley route that does not have coach restriction announcements.
Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as part of the Mid-Sussex railways, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.
Until 1978, most trains from Arundel to London were routed via Dorking and Sutton, which was slightly quicker than today's workings. However, since 1978, services now serve Gatwick Airport and East Croydon, and passengers for Dorking and Sutton require a change of train at Horsham.
The current use of the station is for predominantly London or Gatwick Airport bound passenger traffic. On Mondays to Saturdays, most southbound trains currently only serve Ford, Barnham, and Bognor Regis. Passengers for Chichester, Portsmouth Harbour and Southampton Central, or any stations towards Brighton have a change of train at Ford or Barnham. Passengers for Littlehampton also usually have to change at Ford, with the exception of a single peak hour service to Bognor Regis which runs via Littlehampton.
All services at Arundel are operated by Southern using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
In the peak hours, the station is served by a single service between Bognor Regis (via Littlehampton) and London Bridge.
On Sundays, there is an hourly service but southbound trains divide at , with an additional portion of the train travelling to .