TQ3729 : Datestone on Horsted Keynes station
taken 11 years ago, near to Highbrook, West Sussex, England
The volunteer run Bluebell Line was the UK's first preserved standard gauge passenger railway, re-opening part of the Lewes to East Grinstead line of the old London Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1960. Since then it has developed into one of the largest tourist attractions in Sussex,
it still remains true to its objectives of the preservation for posterity of a country branch line, its steam locomotives, coaches and goods stock, signalling systems, stations and operating practices.
Website: Link
Each of the stations on the Bluebell Railway has been adapted to represent a different period in the line's history. The theme at Horsted Keynes is the 1920s period of the Southern Railway. This is the largest station on the line, originally a junction with a line branching off to Haywards Heath via Ardingly. The station building, built in 1882 by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, is now listed grade 2 (list entry number 1257915). It has featured in films and television, including "Downton Abbey"
(some of this information taken from the railway's website)