Editing Bexhill-on-Sea (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Railway Station, Bexhill-on-Sea - geograph.org.uk - 694294.jpg|thumb|[[Bexhill railway station]]]]
[[File:Cooden Beach station.jpg|thumb|[[Cooden Beach railway station]], Bexhill]]
Bexhill is on the [[A259 road]] which forms the coast road between [[Folkestone]] and [[Brighton]]. Plans of an A259 Bexhill and Hastings bypass have repeatedly been postponed over the past 40 years but the plans were cancelled due to environmental concerns.
A [[A2690|new road]] was approved in 2012 and completed in 2016 at a cost of £100m <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23201587 |title=Bexhill-to-Hastings link road's costs rise by £13m |work=BBC News |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-date=23 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223201052/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23201587 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The town is served by the [[East Coastway line|coastal railway line]] between [[Ashford International railway station|Ashford]] and [[Brighton railway station|Brighton]] and has three railway stations, including [[Cooden Beach railway station|Cooden Beach]], [[Collington railway station|Collington]], and [[Bexhill railway station|Bexhill]]. Regular trains run to Ashford, Brighton and [[London Victoria railway station|London Victoria]].

Bexhill is served by 13 bus routes including school routes which serve the surrounding areas like Hastings, Battle, Conquest Hospital, Eastbourne and Pevensey Bay Asda (Free bus on Wednesdays). The area with the most bus services is between Sidley and Bexhill which has the route 2 (Asda free bus), 95, 97 & 98.

The railway built by the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway (later part of the [[London, Brighton & South Coast Railway]]) arrived on 27 June 1846, although the present [[Bexhill railway station|station]] was not built until 1891, when the town had become popular as a resort. A second line, this time built by the [[South Eastern Railway (England)|South Eastern Railway]] and approaching the town from the north, was a branch line from [[Crowhurst railway station|Crowhurst]] via an intermediate station at [[Sidley, East Sussex|Sidley]] to a terminus at [[Bexhill West railway station|Bexhill West]]. The line opened on 1 June 1902 and closed on 15 June 1964.<ref>H P White, ''Southern England (A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Volume 2)'', David & Charles, 1961–1982, page 36.</ref> The branch was also closed temporarily between 1 January 1917 and 1 March 1919 as an economy measure during the [[First World War]].<ref>"[[The Railway Magazine]]", July 1958</ref>