SAMUEL COLLINS 1879-1940 Railway labourer and carman EPILEPTIC COLONY IN LINGFIELD The railwayman with a young family returned from the First World War with a brain injury. Sadly he was still in the c...

ELIZA WILLIAMS 1898-1993 TICKET OFFICE CLERK AT CROWBOROUGH Eliza Louisa Williams was born on New Road, Rotherfield around 1898, the only child to Ellen Izzard and Arthur Williams, a railway platelaye...

WILLIAM GRAY 1826-1884 EDENBRIDGE TOWN STATION MASTER On his death, after 30 years at Edenbridge, a stained glass window in the church was dedicated to him. Born in Hertfordshire in 1826, William marr...

Sir ROBERT ‘BOB’ ROPNER 1921-2004 North Yorkshire Farmer MOVED CONTENTS OF ENTIRE FARM BY RAIL Pigs, cattle, hens, tractors, hay bales, a thresher, motor cars and more packed 45 train carriages fo...

WILLIAM A. WILLOX Lived in Oxted 1891 – 1970 EDITOR OF THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE Est. in 1897 the monthly magazine continues today. William, a civil engineer of railways like his father, was its edit...

LORD DR. RICHARD BEECHING Lived at Little Manor, East Grinstead 1913-1985 REPORTED ON COST SAVINGS FOR BRITISH RAIL As Chairman of British Rail in 1963 he recommended the closure of 2,363 stations, 5,...

We are at Bluebell Railway today as the exhibition train is in our region. We are building towards our 1st Aug event in Lewes Town Hall and are very grateful to Network Rail and Brighton and Hove Buse...

DAME FLORA SHAW – LADY LUGARD 1852-1929 As a journalist Flora travelled the world reporting on Colonial affairs. Born in Woolwich, one of 14 children of a Royal Artillery Capt. and his French wi...

ELSIE WINTERTON 1897-1984 Engineer and draughtswoman for GWR Born in Reading in 1897, Elsie was one of nine children born to Rose and Joseph Winterton, a biscuit factory labourer for Huntley & Pal...