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Cuckoo Line, the Glossary

The Cuckoo Line is an informal name for the now defunct railway service which linked Polegate and Eridge in East Sussex, England, from 1880 to 1968.^[1]

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Rail transport in East Sussex
Railway lines closed in 1968
Railway lines opened in 1880

A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2).

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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Cuckoo

Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes.

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Cuckoo Trail

The Cuckoo Trail is a footpath and cycleway which runs from Hampden Park to Heathfield in East Sussex.

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East Coastway line

The East Coastway line is a railway line along the south coast of Sussex to the east of Brighton, England. Cuckoo Line and east Coastway line are rail transport in East Sussex and standard gauge railways in England.

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East Grinstead railway station

East Grinstead railway station is one of the two southern termini of the Oxted line in the south of England and serves East Grinstead in West Sussex.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Express Dairies

Express Dairies is a former brand of Dairy Crest, that specialised almost entirely in home deliveries of milk, and other dairy products.

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Fair

A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.

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Fireman (steam engine)

A fireman, stoker or boilerman, is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine.

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Frederick Banister

Frederick Dale Banister MICE (15 March 1823 – 22 December 1897), was an English civil engineer, best known for his 35 years as the Chief Engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR).

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George William Addison

Lieut-Colonel George William Addison (18 September 1849 – 8 November 1937) was an English soldier who played for the Royal Engineers in the 1872 and 1874 FA Cup Finals.

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Groombridge

Groombridge is a village of about 1,600 people.

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Groombridge railway station

Groombridge railway station is a station on the Spa Valley Railway (SVR) in Groombridge, East Sussex, England.

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Hailsham

Hailsham is a town, a civil parish and the administrative centre of the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.

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Hailsham railway station

Hailsham Railway Station was on the Cuckoo Line between Polegate and Hellingly serving the town of Hailsham. Cuckoo Line and Hailsham railway station are Beeching closures in England.

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Hastings line

The Hastings line is a secondary railway line in Kent and East Sussex, England, linking with the main town of, and London via and. Cuckoo Line and Hastings line are rail transport in East Sussex and standard gauge railways in England.

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Heathfield and Waldron

Heathfield and Waldron is a civil parish within the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.

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Heathfield, East Sussex

Heathfield is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Heathfield and Waldron, in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.

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Hellingly

Hellingly (pronounced 'Helling-lye') is a village, and can also refer to a civil parish, and to a district ward, in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.

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Hellingly Hospital Railway

The Hellingly Hospital Railway was a light railway owned and operated by East Sussex County Council, used for transporting coal and passengers to Hellingly Hospital, a psychiatric hospital near Hailsham, from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Cuckoo Line at Hellingly railway station. Cuckoo Line and Hellingly Hospital Railway are closed railway lines in South East England, rail transport in East Sussex and standard gauge railways in England.

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Horam

Horam is a village, electoral ward and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, situated south of Heathfield.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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List of closed railway stations in Britain

The list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the year of closure if known.

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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR (known also as the Brighton line, the Brighton Railway or the Brighton)) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922. Cuckoo Line and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway are rail transport in East Sussex.

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Mayfield and Five Ashes

Mayfield and Five Ashes is a civil parish in the High Weald of East Sussex, England.

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Oxted line

The Oxted line is a railway in southern England and part of the Southern franchise. Cuckoo Line and Oxted line are rail transport in East Sussex and standard gauge railways in England.

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Polegate

Polegate is a town and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, United Kingdom.

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Polegate railway station

Polegate railway station serves Polegate in East Sussex, England.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, by "grouping" them into four large companies dubbed the "Big Four".

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Rotherfield

Rotherfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.

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Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London.

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Smokescreen (film)

Smokescreen is a 1964 British comedy crime drama film, written and directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Peter Vaughan.

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Southern Railway (UK)

The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.

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Spa Valley Railway

The Spa Valley Railway (SVR) is a standard gauge heritage railway in the United Kingdom that runs from Tunbridge Wells West railway station in Royal Tunbridge Wells to High Rocks, Groombridge, and Eridge, where it links with the Oxted Line. Cuckoo Line and Spa Valley Railway are standard gauge railways in England.

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Thomas Myres

Thomas Harrison Myres FRIBA (1842 – 3 December 1926) was an English railway architect who designed stations and ancillary buildings for the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway lines that were opened between 1880 and 1883, including several on what is now the Bluebell Railway.

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Three Bridges–Tunbridge Wells line

The Three Bridges–Tunbridge Wells line is a mostly disused railway line running from Three Bridges (on the Brighton Main Line) in West Sussex to Tunbridge Wells Central in Kent via East Grinstead in West Sussex (East Sussex pre-1974), a distance of. Cuckoo Line and Three Bridges–Tunbridge Wells line are Beeching closures in England, closed railway lines in South East England, rail transport in East Sussex and standard gauge railways in England.

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Train driver

A train driver is a person who operates a train, railcar, or other rail transport vehicle.

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Uckfield

Uckfield is a town in the Wealden District of East Sussex in South East England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_Line

Also known as The Cuckoo Line.

Cuckoo Line, the Glossary

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See also

Rail transport in East Sussex

Railway lines closed in 1968

Railway lines opened in 1880

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