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Latest comment: 12 years ago by DBailey635 in topic Location of East Grinstead Original Station

East Grinstead (Bluebell Railway) station lines

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Layout of East Grinstead (Bluebell Railway) station lines can be seen this this planning application. David Bailey (talk) 11:37, 19 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Holywell Waterworks Halt

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On the map of the line should be added Holywell Waterworks between Freshfield Halt and Bluebell Halt. It opened around 1962 and had a short operating life of only a few years.[[Steamybrian2 (talk) 12:22, 26 August 2010 (UTC)]]Reply

Location of East Grinstead Original Station

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I've just been looking at old-maps.co.uk, and the 1898/1899 OS map shows that the East Grinstead Original Station was on the Former Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line to the East of the East Grinstead High level station... so why do we have it on a spur? How can we put it on that line without converting the diagram to a {BS-2} format? David Bailey (talk) 11:11, 23 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Play around with the following on this talk page and see what you can do:
Bluebell Railway
 
Oxted Line to London
 
 
St Margaret's Junction with Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line
(Below)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
East Grinstead High / Original Station
 
 
 
East Grinstead Low Level Station
 
 
East Grinstead (Bluebell Railway)
(Site of former goods depot)
 
 
Border between National Rail and Bluebell Railway
 
 
 
Hill Place / Imberhorne Viaduct
I'm going to go with the layout (right) suggested by Britmax and add it to the main template. David Bailey (talk) 14:05, 9 October 2011 (UTC)Reply


This revision seems to have moved the original station (the 1855 terminus from Three Bridges) onto the 1882 Lewes line, which would be wrong. Am I misreading something? --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

My mistake. I misread the maps I was working from. This seem closer (right): David Bailey (talk) 15:23, 14 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Bluebell Railway
 
Oxted Line to London
 
St Margaret's Junction
 
 
Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
East Grinstead High (Opened 1883) / Second Station
(Opened 1866)
 
 
 
 
 
East Grinstead Low (Remodelled 1970) / Original Station
(Opened 1855)
 
 
Goods yard
 
 
East Grinstead (Bluebell Railway)
 
 
 
 
Border between National Rail
and Bluebell Railway
 
Hill Place / Imberhorne Viaduct


I think that's it, based on a hasty look at Mitchell and Smith. Speedy fix! --Old Moonraker (talk) 17:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. To stop the diagram growing wider, from BS6 to a BS7, I'll need to use overlays like this (right). What do you think of this solution? David Bailey (talk) 12:49, 20 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Bluebell Railway
 
Oxted Line to London
 
St Margaret's Junction
 
 
Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
East Grinstead High (1883) / Second Station
(1866)
 
 
 
 
 
East Grinstead Low (1970) / Original Station
(1855)
 
 
Goods yard
 
 
East Grinstead (Bluebell Railway)
 
 
 
 
Border between National Rail
and Bluebell Railway
 
Hill Place / Imberhorne Viaduct
Nitpicking from someone who hasn't mastered the necessary syntax yet isn't very attractive but, according to the map on page 16 of The Oxted Line ISBN 0-85361-103-3 (1981 revision), the N-S chord through the goods yard led directly onto the piece of track associated with the 1855 station and didn't touch the 1866 extension eastwards. Old-maps.co.uk offers a view of the O.S. 1899 1:2500 (in the hope that you will buy a printed copy online) and this seems to confirm. It's a bit of a fussy distinction. Apart from that, it looks good; the dates definitely need to be included and leaving out the self-evident "opened" saves a bit of space and is also a big improvement. --Old Moonraker (talk) 15:40, 20 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
  Done. And with the use of some half-width icons, I was actually able to narrow the entire diagram to BS5. However, when I looked at the above-mentioned O.S. map, it appeared that there was some criss-crossing of tracks that would allow either approach into either station. If that wasn't the case, then just replace the fourth row of the diagram with this code:

{{BS7|exdCONTgq|exdABZql|eTBHFxu|O3=HUBa|exSHI1lq|O4=ex-STR+l|exvSTRq|O5=exSHI2rq-|exdBHFq-KBHFeq|exdCONTfq-||'''[[East Grinstead railway station#High Level|East Grinstead High]]''' <small>(1883)</small> {{!}} {{BSsplit|[[East Grinstead railway station#History|Second Station]] (1866)|[[East Grinstead railway station#History|Original Station]] (1855)}} }}

which will display thus:
Useddenim (talk) 21:10, 20 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

I think the patient revisions from Users David Bailey and Useddenim are within sight of a result. Two points: AFAICS Useddenim's second alternative, shown here and not in the template itself yet, is the right one; the question of "either approach into either station" from the west and south didn't arise, as the two stations weren't both in existence at the same time. The "East Grinstead Low" came in to service with the Lewes and East Grinstead Rly of 1882, just beneath the "High"; the 1970 station, just to the south of East Grinstead Low, was just "East Grinstead". --Old Moonraker (talk) 22:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

So, like this (right)? David Bailey (talk) 08:45, 21 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Bluebell Railway
 
 
 
St Margaret's Junction
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
East Grinstead High (1883) |
Second Station (1866)
Original Station (1855)
 
 
 
East Grinstead Low (1882) | Goods yard
 
 
East Grinstead (1970) | East Grinstead
 
 
 
 
Border between National Rail and Bluebell Railway
 
Hill Place / Imberhorne Viaduct
I really think this is it. Once again, apologies for the fault-finding while doing none of the actual work. --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:03, 21 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. I've put that revision in place. David Bailey (talk) 09:07, 21 June 2012 (UTC)Reply