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Cuckoo Line

Cuckoo Line
Overview
Type Branch Line
System National Rail Network
Status Disused
Locale East Sussex and Kent.
Termini Polegate
Eridge
Stations 8
Services Eastbourne to Tonbridge
Operation
Opened 1880
Closed 1965-1968
Owner LB&SCR;
Southern Railway
Depot(s) Eastbourne Depot;
Tunbridge Wells West
Technical
Number of tracks Single
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
'The Cuckoo Line'
(Tunbridge Wells West to Polegate)
Hastings Line (towards Tonbridge)
Wells Tunnel
Tunbridge Wells ('Central')
Grove Hill Tunnel
Grove Junction
Grove Tunnel
Tunbridge Wells West(Spa Valley Railway)
Hastings Line (towards Hastings)
High Rocks Halt(SVR)
Groombridge(SVR)
Oxted Line towards London
to Three Bridges via East Grinstead HL
Birchden Junction
Eridge
Redgate Mill Junction
Oxted Line towards Uckfield
Wealden Line towards Lewes
Rotherfield & Mark Cross(Closed 1965)
Argos Hill Tunnel
Mayfield Tunnel
Mayfield(Closed 1965)
Heathfield Tunnel 265 yards (242 m))
Heathfield(Closed 1965)
Horam(Closed 1965)
Hellingly Hospital Railway(Closed 1958)
Hellingly(Closed 1965)

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