View from the footbridge at Crowhurst station

Image: © Marathon Taken: 1 Jul 2013

The line from Tonbridge to Tunbridge Wells was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 19th September 1845. The extension from Tunbridge Wells to Robertsbridge was opened on 1st September 1851, from Robertsbridge to Battle on 1st January 1852, and from Battle to St Leonard’s on 1st February 1853. This is the only station between Tunbridge Wells and St Leonard's which was not designed by the company's architect William Tress. The reason was that although the section of the Hastings line through Crowhurst was completed in 1852, no station existed at this location until the South Eastern & Chatham Railway built a branch line to Bexhill West in 1902. This left the main route just south-east of the present station. Crowhurst served as a junction station, with Up and Down through platforms and a bay platform at the southern end of each until closure of the Bexhill West branch in 1964. Most of the station buildings were then demolished - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3338314 This is the view from the footbridge looking up the line.

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