Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, 27 miles (43 km) ... A map of East Grinstead from 1946. Air
The current East Grinstead station is the fourth to have been constructed in the town. Prior to the arrival of the railway, the nearest stations were 6 miles (9.7 km) away at Godstone on the South Eastern Railway's Redhill to Tonbridge line and at Three Bridges on the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway's Brighton line.
At East Grinstead, two new "low level" platforms were constructed below and at right angles to the "high level" station on the Three Bridges–Tunbridge Wells line. [ 60 ] [ b ] The LB&SCR had hoped to open the South Croydon–East Grinstead line on 1 March 1884, but public services were delayed until 10 March for strengthening work on ...
On 23 March 2013, the Bluebell Railway started to run through to its new East Grinstead terminus station. [2] At East Grinstead there is a connection to the national rail network, the first connection of the Bluebell Railway to the national network in 50 years, since the Horsted Keynes – Haywards Heath line closed in 1963.
By the mid-nineteenth century East Grinstead, then a small market town, found itself excluded from the development of the railway network in the south-east; the nearest town, Godstone, was connected to the South Eastern Railway's (SER) London to Dover line, whilst the London and Brighton Railway's (LBR) Brighton Main Line had linked in Three Bridges as well as the supposedly less important ...
Oxted was built as a joint London, Brighton and South Coast Railway/South Eastern Railway station when the South Croydon to East Grinstead line opened on 10 March 1884. [1] The three platforms are connected by a subway which runs under the track.
Imberhorne Viaduct is a Grade II listed railway viaduct located in East Grinstead, West Sussex, South-East England.Closed in 1958, the structure was brought back into use as part of the preserved Bluebell Railway heritage line in 2013, allowing trains to continue to East Grinstead railway station.
Oxted is a town and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs, 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Croydon, 9 miles (14 km) west of Sevenoaks, and 9 miles (14 km) north of East Grinstead. Oxted is a commuter town and Oxted railway station has direct train services to London.