Ventnor’s ‘first and last’ station love at first sight

PART TWO

PART TWO

Dear Editor: The article on the GWR Hall class locos and the photo taken from Westbury Lane bridge, Purley, Berks as it was then, brought back wartime memories as a 6 year old boy. The signals shown a

As the extension to the Kent & East Sussex Railway and station at Robertsbridge gathers pace, the Rother Valley Railway has launched an appeal to complete the extended line’s new terminus.

From giant levers to tiny mouse clicks: it’s taken a year longer than promised and cost more than £120 million, but a major project is now nearing completion.

Rail’s architectural legacy reaches further than where the rails go -and far beyond the lineside fence or the station walls. TIM DUNN reports