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Coordinates: 51°06′22″N 0°06′44″E / 51.1060°N 0.1122°E / 51.1060; 0.1122
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Hartfield
General information
LocationWealden, East Sussex
Owned bySouthern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Managed byLondon, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Platforms1
Key dates
1 October 1866Opened
7 May 1962Closed to goods traffic
2 January 1967Closed to passenger traffic

Hartfield was a railway station serving Hartfield, England, on the Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line which closed in 1967, a casualty of the Beeching Axe.[1]

The station opened on 1 October 1866 and the buildings were designed by Charles Henry Driver.[2]

The station building is now divided between a day nursery and a private house. The route of the railway line is now a cycle path (the Forest Way).[3] A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, lived in Hartfield.

The station appears in a British Transport Film entitled Farmer Moving South, which recounted the moving of the entire farm stock of Robert Ropner, by special train from Skutterskelfe Hall in Yorkshire to Perryhill Farm, Hartfield in December 1950. The entire move took 30 hours and was nine hours late in arriving at East Grinstead on 15 December.[4] The film is available on a BFI DVD.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Forest Row   British Rail
Southern Region
Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line 		  Withyham
  • Remains of the platform from the cycle path
    Remains of the platform from the cycle path
  • Hartfield station in 2005
    Hartfield station in 2005
  • Another view of Hartfield station
    Another view of Hartfield station

See also

References

  1. ^ Hartfield railway station on Subterranea Britannica
  2. ^ "Opening of the Tunbridge Wells and East Grinstead Branch of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway". Sussex Advertiser. British Newspaper Archive. 3 October 1866. Retrieved 8 August 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Forest Way" (PDF). East Sussex CC. Retrieved 12 August 2007.
  4. ^ Gould, David (1983). Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells. The Oakwood Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-85361-299-5.

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