[Travel] The Seaford branch line.

[Leekbrookgull]

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]

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.

That's a bad thing ?

 

[Leekbrookgull]

The Seaford Line is Priceless, you don't know what you have.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

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.

Try living where l do.

 

[atomised]

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.

steamworks is my pre match tradition these days such a lovely bar

 

[BN9 BHA]

The Seaford Line is Priceless, you don't know what you have.

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.

 

[maltaseagull]

Try living where l do.

Hah.
The last train here was 1931!!

 

[Comrade Sam]

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?

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

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.

Do the trains stop at Southease and Rodmell on match days?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Do the trains stop at Southease and Rodmell on match days?

Yes

 

[BN41Albion]

Am I missing something or is this a very random thread to start!?

 

[Eeyore]

Try living where l do.

The number 17 is worth waiting for.

 

[VAL1850]

Do the trains stop at Southease and Rodmell on match days?

Yes, but only one an hour...

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

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.

Computer says Leek used to have a branch line. Up to you locals to actively, er, activate to get it reinstated

Leek railway station - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[AmexRuislip]

Try the Newhaven line, it's makes the Seaford line seem luxurious.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

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.

 

[prawnsarnies]

 

[A1X]

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.)

 

[Bodian]

You've got a branch canal though - Seaford hasn't got one of those!