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unusual facts about Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central line


Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line

In addition, it was required to cross a private carriage road to Ashdown House via a bridge under the road and not a level crossing.


Colas Ltd

The head office for Colas Ltd is located in Rowfant, West Sussex, which interestingly has within its grounds the old Rowfant railway station which was part of the East Grinstead Railway.

Spa Valley Railway

First, the East Grinstead to Lewes line closed in 1958, then the Cuckoo Line in 1965, the Three Bridges to Groombridge in 1967, and finally the Wealden Line south of Uckfield in 1969.

En route it crosses the Kent and East Sussex border, a distance of 5 miles (8 km), along the former Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line / Cuckoo Line.

The railway was engineered by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's (LB&SCR) Chief Engineer Frederick Banister, as part of the East Grinstead, Groombridge and Tunbridge Wells Railway (EGGTWR), itself an extension to the Three Bridges to East Grinstead Railway which had been completed in 1855.


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