Polegate
| The station entrance photographed on 16th May 2006. Facilities
are kept to the minimum and should any unsuspecting passenger require the
Public Conveniences having alighted from his train, he has to walk some way
into Polegate High Street!
photograph by Peter Richards |
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The buildings on platform 1, the up platform, are of reasonable
size, light and airy. In May 2006 the station nameboards are in New Southern
Railway green, but everything else is still painted in Connex colours!
photograph by Peter Richards |
| A train pauses in platform 1 for passengers to entrain and
detrain. Note that Polegate still has a number of semaphore signals, though
the post of the platform starter is of decidedly non-Southern tubular steel.
The Signalbox beyond the level crossing has only six working levers left in
use, for the distant, home and starting signals in each direction.
photograph by Peter Richards |
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The buildings on the down side, platform 2, which is where
passengers arrive once they leave the booking office. Access to the up platform
is by way of an overbridge.
photograph by Peter Richards |
| A train for Eastbourne is just departing from platform 2 on 16th
May 2006, which had a particularly wet afternoon! The starting signal is
another with a tubular post.
photograph by Peter Richards> |
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| These pictures are of the third and present station, rebuilt close to the level crossing after the line to Hailsham was closed and lifted in the mid-1980s. |
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The new station photographed whilst under construction during
February 1986.
photograph by Mark Westcott |
| The second station building as it was in 2006. Now branded as
"Buddies at The Old Polegate Station" it was enjoying its new life as
a bar and restaurant.
photograph by Peter Richards |
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This page was last updated 30 December 2008
