ACTRESS FELL IN LOVE ON FILM SET Scenes from Ealing Studios’ 1947 film ‘The Loves of Joanna Godden’ were shot on the New Romney branch line from Appledore at Lydd Town railway station, a...

ORE LABOURERS A railway line from Ashford to Hastings via Rye had a troubled beginning, different railway companies vying for supremacy in the 1840s. Work began at the Ashford end it and it wasn’t u...

At a time when unusually hot weather tests the railway infrastructure and we all get hot and bothered, it is nice to be able to share some good news stories that demonstrate that there is a lot of sup...

Brighton-born couple the railway signal fitter Robert Haslett and his wife Caroline lived on New Road, Worth and had four surviving children Georgina, Robert, Rosalind and Caroline, the eldest. At 15 ...

Holman or ‘Holly’ was the son of Pre-Raphaelite artist and art critic Frederick G. Stephens and his artist wife Rebecca née Dalton. His father gave Holman a working model railway as a gift. Appre...

A sales clerk at Billingshurst for 12 years, sadly Dave died in service in April 1999. Chichester Line Manager Keith Brown, of Connex Rail, took this as an opportunity to have the Billingshurst statio...

Ernest was born in Dorset in 1906 to Fanny and Edward Wills, a gardener. By 1921 the 15 year old Ernest and his family living were on London Road, Pulborough. He was working at the railway station as ...

Littlehampton’s Frank Rowe manned Ford station for over 40 years. The Littlehampton Gazette reported, after his death, in 2001 that Frank “actually looked after the station completely himself – ...

Ian was born at Christ’s Hospital (CH) in 1922, son of the school’s Clerk, G.A.T. Allan. While he did not attend CH, he became a publisher of railway books,  founding and championing the CH Railw...