Category Archives:Hastings to Tonbridge Line

‘Train Landscape’ by artist Eric Ravilious has been named as the best-loved railway artwork in the UK. The watercolour was painted in 1940 and shows the chalk white horse of Westbury, Wiltshire, v...

Our Railway 200 project to create 200 ‘blue plaques’ of people and places with connections to the railways includes promoting the jobs of the future. Each of the train operators with whom ...

Late last week we saw the installation of the 2025 “a Town explores a book” platform panels at St Leonards Warrior square. This was the next phase in the Social history project exploring t...

As part of the Community Rail Week and to celebrate Railway 200, Hastings Friary Gardeners enjoyed a try a train trip and planting work experience at Robertsbridge. The day started at Hastings, with a...

The yearly contribution by Community Rail to the societies it serves in the South East has been revealed as more than half a million pounds. The Annual Review from Southeast Communities Rail Partnersh...

Memories of Robertsbridge Station and the London to Hastings line. My parents moved to Brightling at the beginning of 1946.   In the early days my father commuted by train from Etchingham to his off...

A recollection by Linda Neve   My grandfather Joseph Weston joined the company in the 1900s as a plate layer at Etchingham and was there as the ganger. In his gang there was also my uncle Ernest ...

SOUTHERN RAILWAY GENERAL MANAGER Son of James T. Missenden New Cross, London in 1886-d. Rudgwick, Horsham 1973 Son of a station master, he began working life as a junior railway clerk. He married Lili...

Last week saw the new installation of the temporary exhibit at Warrior Square Station in relation to the St Leonards “A town explores a book” project. This year the team explored the scien...

A steam train will be travelling along our lines next month including stops at Eastbourne and Hastings. The Sussex Belle service run by the Railway Touring Company is scheduled to pass through the reg...