UK Railway Station, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
Haywards Heath station on Sunday morning June 6th 1999.
Haywards Heath is an important stop on the London-Brighton mainline. The first station was built here by the London & Brighton railway in 1841. It was here, in February 1858 that the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (1846) detached the first ever passenger cars from a non stop express (slip coaches).
This station building dates from the Southern Railway's 1932 750 V dc 3rd rail electrification project. Slip coaches were discontinued on the Southern with the arrival of the EMUs.
This is the closest mainline station for the Bluebell Railway.
Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (michael@michaeltaylor.ca)
Website www.MichaelTaylor.ca