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[Travel] The Seaford branch line.



Leekbrookgull

Leekbrookgull

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Jul 14, 2005
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We have nothing like this here, bus services are poor 1ph to Stoke on Trent. Macclesfield or Buxton four or five a day. Yet and it's all about numbers we can't fault it. Plus after all the travel issues The Steamworks.
 




Eeyore

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Leekbrookgull said:
We have nothing like this here, bus services are poor 1ph to Stoke on Trent. Macclesfield or Buxton four or five a day. Yet and it's all about numbers we can't fault it. Plus after all the travel issues The Steamworks.
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That's a bad thing ?
 






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atomised

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Mar 21, 2013
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Leekbrookgull said:
We have nothing like this here, bus services are poor 1ph to Stoke on Trent. Macclesfield or Buxton four or five a day. Yet and it's all about numbers we can't fault it. Plus after all the travel issues The Steamworks.
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steamworks is my pre match tradition these days such a lovely bar
 








Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam

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Jan 31, 2013
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Walthamstow
My Mum has just moved to Seaford, it's like Shoreham in the 50s. Where I live I have to contend with 2 rail lines with trains every 10 minutes and tubes every 2, plus dozens of buses every 5 minutes - I constantly think of mid Sussex public transport as I watch pricks running for buses, tubes and trains. Have they ever heard of weekly buses?
 




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Seagull on the Hill

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We do appreciate it, packed with Albion fans on match days. But definitely a good branch line with a very interesting station at Bishopstone and stunning countryside views between Newhaven and Lewes.
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Do the trains stop at Southease and Rodmell on match days?
 








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Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Leekbrookgull said:
We have nothing like this here, bus services are poor 1ph to Stoke on Trent. Macclesfield or Buxton four or five a day. Yet and it's all about numbers we can't fault it. Plus after all the travel issues The Steamworks.
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Computer says Leek used to have a branch line. Up to you locals to actively, er, activate to get it reinstated :shrug:

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Leek railway station - Wikipedia

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Leekbrookgull

Leekbrookgull

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Jul 14, 2005
16,350
Leek
Leek was served to all four points of the compass up until the mid 60,s and went the same way as many other lines. Morrisons now occupy the former station site and The Churnet Valley Railway run several miles of heritage railway and in fact we live a short distance away from Leekbrook Junction and the now private residence of Wall Grange station.
 






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Deepest, darkest Sussex
The Southern Railway electrifying a fair few lines definitely saved them from the Beeching axe (Seaford, Sheerness, Paddock Wood to Strood). I think the only electrified line to fall foul of Beeching was Haywards Heath to Horsted Keynes via Ardingly, and to be fair it was thoroughly deserved.

Compare and contrast that with the fate of any number of non-electrified branch and secondary lines (Horsham to Shoreham, Horsham to Guildford, the Midhurst line, Alton to Winchester, the New Romney branch, Eridge to Tunbridge Wells, Lewes to Uckfield, Eastbourne to Eridge etc.)
 
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