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Even the ABC Railway Guide, a much more recent publication, is almost a work of fiction now. I still have a copy dating back to 1972, and plenty of long forgotten routes and services in that.

Yes the Ouse is still there! I had a mate whose family home was at Southease, an absolutely amazing place, quite literally in the middle of nowhere, a beautiful part of Sussex, still almost untouched by urban development.

I remember the daily 0918 service from Brighton to Manchester very well. In the late 1980's when l was regularly watching the Albion play away, l often used to take that train to many of our games in the north west to avoid having to change trains, (and stations), in London. The problem was...

mmm l'm beginning to take an interest in it now too.

Someone was asking this very question on here some considerable time ago now . . . could it have been yourself perhaps?

Turn left along the platform and you can walk along along the old railway bed, now a public cycle path, in a half hour or so you will come to Southwater Country Park. A very pleasant stroll, (or cycle), in the warmer months.

Love the old black & white photo in the middle, with the chap in his flat cap. Where and roughly when was that taken?

Waited ages for a train at West Grinstead last week, it never came. At least the platform is still there l suppose, and the old station building. The same can't be said of Henfield.