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Gatwick Airport railway station is located adjacent to the South Terminal and has served the airport since 1958. [264] [265] It is located on the Brighton Main Line, and is mainly served by Southern, Thameslink, and Gatwick Express. It also receives a half-hourly service operated by Great Western Railway via the North Downs Line.
The Gatwick Airport Shuttle Transit is a 0.75-mile (1.21 km) long elevated automated people mover that links the North and South Terminals at London's Gatwick Airport. The line is ground-side, and besides linking the two terminals also serves to link the North terminal to the airport railway station .
It was the world's first fully integrated airport building, and is considered a nationally and internationally important example of airport terminal design. [2] The Beehive is a part of the City Place Gatwick office complex. [3] The 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) former terminal building is on a 2-acre (0.81 ha) site. [4]
The building was closed to new passengers for several hours on Friday as Sussex Police deployed its bomb disposal unit.
In the early 1950s, the airport was expanded over land formerly occupied by the racecourse, and it was decided to rebuild the station. The station was integrated into the airport terminal via an upper level concourse designed by British Rail Southern Region. On 27 May 1958, the rebuilt station, Gatwick Airport, opened with a regular train service.
A mass evacuation of Gatwick airport was ordered on Monday 2 October, after alarms rang out in the North Terminal. Thousands of passengers were forced out of the building after the fire alarm sounded.
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