These will be 10-car trains newly formed from refurbished SWT and former Gatwick Express rolling stock.

National Express services 025 from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport and Brighton, and 027 from Victoria to Chichester also serve Wallington.

In 1996 the group acquired its first UK rail franchises, Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline.

In June 2008 Gatwick Express was absorbed into Southern franchise

British Rail launched Gatwick Express, the world's first non-stop airport to city centre rail service, between the airport and London Victoria station.

Gatwick Express is the name of a high-frequency passenger service between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport in South East England, operated by Southern.

The Gatwick Express service commenced in May 1984 with air-conditioned InterCity stock.

In June 2008 Gatwick Express ceased to exist as a separate franchise, being merged into the Southern franchise, although continuing to maintain its own identity.

Some peak-hour Gatwick Express services now continue beyond Gatwick Airport to Brighton.

The origins of the Gatwick Express service come from the initial opening of Gatwick Airport railway station in June 1958.

Class 73 hauling Mark 2 stock on a Gatwick Express service through Clapham Junction

In May 1984 the non-stop Gatwick Express service commenced with Mark 2 stock.

Gatwick Express was the first portion of British Rail's InterCity sector to be converted into a separate train operating unit, ready for franchising as a private business with the assets transferred to Gatwick Express Limited ( legal name Gatwick Express Limited, company no 2912338 ) in March 1994.

The Gatwick Express franchise was awarded by the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising to National Express with the franchise commencing on 28 April 1996.

Several foreign airlines also serve Rinas Airport: Alitalia ( from Rome and Milan ), British Airways ( from London Gatwick Airport ), Austrian Airlines ( from Vienna ), Adria Airways ( Ljubljana ), Jat Airways ( Belgrade ), Lufthansa ( Munich ), Malev ( Budapest ), Olympic Air ( Athens ), Hemus Air ( Sofia ) and Turkish Airlines ( Istanbul ).

It was also the year Silver City complemented its Gatwick — Le Touquet all-passenger operation with a vehicle ferry service.

The A23 north from Purley forms the Purley Way, which leads to Croydon's trading and industrial hinterland and also to the former Croydon Airport, the predecessor of the present London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport.

It also ran services from Reading to Basingstoke and Reading to Gatwick Airport.

Gatwick Airport is an hour away to the north, Southampton Airport is an hour and a half away to the west, Chichester Airport is 30 minutes also to the west and Shoreham Airport is 45 minutes to the east.

Thomas Cook Airlines also fly to Kittilä Airport from Bristol & Gatwick Airport between November to April every year.

British Airways also directly competes with Virgin on the London Gatwick route currently operating ten flights per week on Boeing 777s.

In addition to firmly establishing itself as the airport's and West Berlin's leading charter airline, it also operated scheduled services linking Tegel with Amsterdam Schiphol, Saarbrücken and London Gatwick, its main operating base.

A few services also operated from Gatwick.

* The central ( Brighton ) side, comprising platforms 9 – 19, is the terminus for Southern ( including Gatwick Express ) services to Surrey and Sussex, including Gatwick Airport and Brighton on the Brighton Main Line and also the East Grinstead branch on the Oxted Line.

The Arora International Hotel Gatwick / Crawley also stands nearby.

This additional traffic required substantial improvements to the railway infrastructure, notably at Newhaven harbour, where electric lighting was installed, but also at Three Bridges, where a new freight marshalling yard was established, and at Gatwick and Haywards Heath, where passing sidings were constructed so that the frequent passenger trains would not be impeded by the slower-moving freight.

Unlike the Heathrow Express and the Gatwick Express, the service also calls at stations between the airport and the central London Terminus.

Services are also provided from Reading to Basingstoke, and to Gatwick Airport via Guildford and Dorking Deepdene ; and from Bristol to Newport and Cardiff.

They are also used on the Henley and Windsor branches, and on services between Reading and Redhill or Gatwick Airport, and between Newbury and Reading.

Airline was also occasionally filmed at Gatwick and Stansted airports.

The town centre was also included in the Northgate neighbourhood including the main shopping area of Crawley and the rail and bus stations as was the Manor Royal Industrial Estate to the north of the town and south of Gatwick Airport.

Gatwick Airport is also within the Langley Green Area and provides another important source of employment.

They also enabled Air Europe to launch new routes where there was insufficient traffic to support its larger Boeing 737 and Fokker 100 jet aircraft or where these aircraft were too big to provide a frequent schedule during the start-up phase, such as Gatwick — Düsseldorf and Gatwick — Jersey for instance.

BA's takeover of Dan-Air also left the Gatwick to Newcastle route vacant for the airline to assume, offerig a three-times daily service and requiring a third ATR 42.

However, it also imposed a ceiling on the maximum number of slots British Airways and its newly acquired subsidiary CityFlyer Express were allowed to hold at Gatwick.

BA also needed CityFlyer's slots to expand its Gatwick operation so that it could offer enough feeder services that would help it turn around its loss-making operation at the airport by improving long haul load factors.

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing widebodied jets and operates between the United Kingdom and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia from its bases at Gatwick and Heathrow airports.

* British Airways ( BA ) uses London Heathrow Airport ( LHR ) and to a lesser extent Gatwick Airport ( LGW ).

* Thomson Airways ( TOM ) uses London Gatwick Airport ( LGW ), Manchester Airport ( MAN ) and Birmingham Airport, West Midlands ( BHX ).

* Virgin Atlantic ( VS ) uses London Heathrow Airport ( LHR ), Gatwick Airport ( LGW ) and to a lesser extent Manchester Airport ( MAN )

Many Brighton residents commute to work in London and destinations include London Victoria, London Bridge, and Gatwick Airport, with trains continuing to Bedford.

Thameslink is a 50-station main-line route in the British railway system running north to south through London from Bedford to Brighton, serving both London Gatwick Airport and London Luton Airport.

These included long term population movements out to Croydon, Kingston and Sutton ; the growth of heavy traffic on the A23 ( main road from central London to Gatwick Airport and Brighton ), and a lack of redevelopment sites in the town centre.

* 21 September 1841: The London and Brighton Railway opened, running near Gatwick Manor.

* 1891: The new owners opened a horse racecourse ( Gatwick Racecourse ), beside the London – Brighton railway, and a dedicated station including sidings for horse boxes.

* September 1935: A new railway station called Gatwick served by two trains an hour on the Victoria – Brighton line opened.

This was part of a plan by the Department for Transport to increase capacity on the Brighton Main Line that saw peak hour services extended from Gatwick to Brighton and Eastbourne from December 2008.

This was part of a plan by the Department for Transport to increase capacity on the Brighton Main Line that saw peak hour services extended from Gatwick to Brighton and Eastbourne from December 2008.

Trains services from Littlehampton railway station are provided by Southern and occasionally First Great Western, with direct services to Brighton, London Victoria, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton.

Trains from Flitwick station go north to Bedford and south to Luton, Luton Airport Parkway, St Albans, London, Gatwick Airport and Brighton, making it a popular place to live for commuters.

First Capital Connect trains on the cross-London Thameslink route call at platforms beneath the main station, south to Gatwick Airport and Brighton and north to Luton Airport Parkway for Luton Airport and Bedford.

This is particularly true of the Gatwick Express, which travels along the Brighton Main Line, as it will often divert over Chatham-side tracks during engineering works in order to maintain service levels.

It lies south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and east northeast of the county town of Chichester.

Being a commuter town, many of the residents commute daily via rail to London, Brighton, Crawley or Gatwick for work.