Cuckfield Connections

Chichester express and West Sussex journal-Tuesday 11 April 1865 Cuckfield - another attempt at suicide.-on Tuesday a young woman named...

Future of railway travelling We shall fight them tooth and nail, so Mr William Forbes is reported to have told an interviewer who met him...

Sussex Advertiser - Monday 17 June 1839 CUCKFIELD. Fatal Accident. —An inquest was held at the Half Moon Inn, Balcombe, on Wednesday...

Writing in in the mid 1850s, Samuel Shergold, observed that coach travellers were more likely to find love on a stage coach rather than...

Sussex Advertiser - Monday 15 June 1840 CUCKFIELD. Fatal Accident.—An inquest was held on Saturday last, the 13th instant, before F. H....

A party of the shareholders in this undertaking went down the line on Tuesday morning as far as Hayward's-heath, near Cuckfield, about 15...

50 injured as two trains collide near new £130m signalling centre by Michael Hornsell and Michael Bailey British Rail and the Department...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 22 November 1938 KILLED WHILE LEANING OUT OF TRAIN WINDOW. Verdict of “Misadventure” at Haywards Heath Inquest...

On the finishing of the Merstham and Balcombe tunnel, which we named as having taken place last week, the workmen, to the number of 100,...

Fatal Accident An inquest was held on Saturday last, the 13th instant, before FH Gell, Esq, Coroner, on view of the body of William...

The Brighton line attracted a tough breed of construction workmen called 'navvies'. They inherited this name from the 'navigators' who...

Anyone who has commuted to London or Brighton from Mid Sussex will want to compare their experiences with this account from the very...

There are two names associated with building and design of the London to Brighton railway line. While many will have heard of the name of...

Brighton railway station opened in May 1840 but was initially only receiving trains to and from Shoreham-by-Sea and stations westwards...

I was recently shown a collection of researched material and came across a cutting of this uncredited article, which today will raise a...

On Friday Mr Labouchere's staghounds, from Warnham, Surrey, came sweeping across the country in pursuit of hind, passing by Slaugham,...

Today we take travelling on a train - to and fro London - for granted. We overlook the engineering miracles performed with just primitive...

Cuckfield researcher Fred Wheatland recently drew our attention to a photograph (3rd photo below) of this ‘Cuckfield’ locomotive and of...

Early rail travel on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) was a much slower, less reliable and even hazardous form of...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 15 July 1841 [graphic of timetable]