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2 unusual facts about Sheffield Park railway station


Bernard Holden

As an active Superintendent of the Line and later President of the Bluebell Society, Holden over saw the retention and then the expansion of the railway from near East Grinstead to Sheffield Park and in 1992 was appointed MBE for services to railway preservation.

Sheffield Park railway station

The station opened in 1882 at the request of the Earl of Sheffield, a local landowner and promoter of the The Lewes and East Grinstead Railway Act 1877 which authorised the construction of a line from East Grinstead to Lewes, now popularly known as the Bluebell Railway.



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