[Travel] If all trains towards Brighton from St Leonard’s Warrior Square were cancelled...

[GT49er]

I always go Brighton - SLWS - TW when making this journey.

Well, Worthing - Brighton - SLWS - TW actually.

OK fair enough. I'd have thought Worthing - Redhill would be a better journey than relying on Coastway all along to SLWS, but I don't know what the Redhill - Tonbridge service (if any) is like these days.

 

[Madafwo]

As if by magic a train has appeared and is going to Pevensey and West-something-or-other.

Anything East of Brighton has always been a mystery to me, which is a failing at times like this as I have absolutely no idea where anywhere is in relation to other places.

Train to Pevensey & Westham, bus to Polegate possibly via Eastbourne and then train to Brighton hopefully.

Either that or a Number 12 bus from Eastbourne to Brighton is covered by your train ticket due to the disruption.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

As if by magic a train has appeared and is going to Pevensey and West-something-or-other.

Anything East of Brighton has always been a mystery to me, which is a failing at times like this as I have absolutely no idea where anywhere is in relation to other places.

Pevensey and Westham is 2 miles fro Eastbourne.
Get cab from Pevensey to Eastbourne, £5, then Coastliner bus from Eastbourne to Brighton, simples

 

[ManOfSussex]

If he's in Tunbridge Wells trying to get to Brighton, getting the 28 or 29 Brighton and Hove bus to Churchill Square would have been my suggestion. They run all evening too.

 

[knocky1]

Bit of a long shot, are there any Hastings based NSCites fancy a cash hand job tonight

Rather irrelevant to the logistical problem but would pass the time I suppose. Excuse the edit of “in”.

 

[GT49er]

Yes, as stated, this is the better route, but what I have suggested is then the next best option, though both are not as direct as one would ideally have wanted. Blame beeching -years ago you could have gone to TW via lewes!

Or indeed via Haywards Heath or Three Bridges and East Grinstead! You could probably have had five or six routes if you really wanted variety - a different one for each day of the working week!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Rather irrelevant to the logistical problem but would pass the time I suppose. Excuse the edit of “in”.

Apologies I didn't realise you were NSC answer to Judith Chalmers, I'll run any travel advise past you next time

 

[Bozza]

OK fair enough. I'd have thought Worthing - Redhill would be a better journey than relying on Coastway all along to SLWS, but I don't know what the Redhill - Tonbridge service (if any) is like these days.

It's generally not been too bad and the trains are pretty quiet with decent tables, making it easy to work on. (And you can't get from Worthing to Redhill directly so Worthing to TW would require 4 trains that way (I tried it once)).

If he's in Tunbridge Wells trying to get to Brighton, getting the 28 or 29 Brighton and Hove bus to Churchill Square would have been my suggestion. They run all evening too.

"He" didn't know what was going to happen when he left Tunbridge Wells.

Or indeed via Haywards Heath or Three Bridges and East Grinstead! You could probably have had five or six routes if you really wanted variety - a different one for each day of the working week!

Isn't East Grinstead the end of a line in the middle of nowhere?

 

[ManOfSussex]

"He" didn't know what was going to happen when he left Tunbridge Wells.

Okay, that's fair enough. If 'he' was at Warrior Square, then a Stagecoach bus to Eastbourne and a Brighton and Hove bus from Eastbourne to Brighton would have been my suggestion if no rail replacement buses were around.

Next time 'he' goes to Tunbridge Wells, tell 'him' about considering the 'Regency Route' Brighton and Hove bus direct from Churchill Square to Royal Victoria Place, if 'he' hasn't thought of it before. It'd be a bit longer than changing at Warrior Square, assuming the connections are close time wise, but 'he' could always get the train up to Lewes and pick it up from there instead.

 

[GT49er]

Isn't East Grinstead the end of a line in the middle of nowhere?

It is now - but I was replying to a post about the pre-Beeching possibilities for the journey. East Grinstead was once the hub of a veritable profusion of routes! Anyway, hope you're somewhere near getting home by now!

 

[beorhthelm]

trains running to/from Polegate, so shared taxi/uber there and train onward. if in no rush follow the southern provided replacment bus from Pevensey to Polegate.

 

[Bozza]

trains running to/from Polegate, so shared taxi/uber there and train onward. if in no rush follow the southern provided replacment bus from Pevensey to Polegate.

Not to Eastbourne?

I genuinely have no idea where Polegate is.

 

[knocky1]

Apologies I didn't realise you were NSC answer to Judith Chalmers, I'll run any travel advise past you next time

Excellent. You don’t have contact details for the cash hand jobs by any chance.

 

[beorhthelm]

Not to Eastbourne?

apparently that is where the signal problem is. Polegate is a dot on the map north of Eastbourne, along the A27 where the A22 crosses.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Excellent. You don’t have contact details for the cash hand jobs by any chance.

Haha, only if there were such a thing in East Sussex

 

[Beach Hut]

Not to Eastbourne?

I genuinely have no idea where Polegate is.

David Dimbleby leaves near Polegate, small town just before Eastbourne

 

[LamieRobertson]

No much of a friend if he hasn’t got a NSC account

 

[GT49er]

Not to Eastbourne?

I genuinely have no idea where Polegate is.

Second station out of Eastbourne on the way to Brighton.

 

[Bozza]

Phoned for a cab. Offered the spare seats to strangers and one bloke had two dogs.

Didn’t think the cabbie would let him in but he did, relegating me to to the back seat so the dogs could have the footwell.

 

[knocky1]

David Dimbleby leaves near Polegate, small town just before Eastbourne

Surely he Remains?