Place High Rocks Grid reference TQ559383 | Area Wealden, East Sussex | |
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Managed by London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Owned by Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways
Spa Valley Railway Platforms 1 (original halt had 2) Owners Southern Railway, Southern Region of British Railways, Spa Valley Railway Similar Spa Valley Railway, Groombridge railway station, Opera House - Royal Tu, Tunbridge Wells West railway st, Junction Road Halt railway st | ||
High Rocks railway station is a station on the Spa Valley Railway in High Rocks, East Sussex, England.
The original High Rocks Halt opened on 1 June 1907, as part of a London, Brighton and South Coast Railway scheme to boost traffic on its lines. It finally closed on 5 May 1952 due to low traffic (it had been closed from 16 October 1939 to 15 June 1942 as a wartime economy measure). The rest of the line soldiered on with ever decreasing services, to be finally closed to all traffic on 10 August 1985. The line through the station site was re-opened by the "Spa Valley Railway" in 1997. The new High Rocks station opening in August 1998 has been built about 100 yards west of the original halt closed in 1952.
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