power cut in Newhaven :(
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The water supply is back on chez Frutos.
Tea up!!
Too bloody right.
It's about time us BN9ers had a thread about us 
meeching gull
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It's about time us BN9ers had a thread about us
Seagulls Over Turkey Town (SOTT)
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
ex turkey towner myself
meeching gull
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ex turkey towner myself
I'm 1st generation but my missus her family go back to the 1850s in Turkey Town
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
my Nan lived in Clifton Road for best part of 70 years
she told me she'd remembered watching German POW's being marched past her house
going up to build Gibbon Road no doubt
also that she'd worked in the Engineer and in the evening's would have to remove her shoes to walk home
trying to fend off the attenions of the Canadian soldiers
Lord Bracknell
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It has occasionally been called Platform 3 of Newhaven Town station. That allows the railway to cease using it, without going through the long formal process of closing a freestanding station.
meeching gull
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my Nan lived in Clifton Road for best part of 70 years
she told me she'd remembered watching German POW's being marched past her house
going up to build Gibbon Road no doubt
also that she'd worked in the Engineer and in the evening's would have to remove her shoes to walk home
trying to fend off the attenions of the Canadian soldiers
My wife Grand mother were evacuated to The Forest of Dean with her younger brothers and sisters
they had some stories shame most have past away
West Hoathly Seagull
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It used to have a train from Manchester - I can't remember if it was daily or Fridays only. An Ardingly College schoolmate who lived in France used to use it to get the ferry to Dieppe at the end of term. Technically he shouldn't have done, as it was set down only at Haywards Heath, but I presume he must have bought a single to Newhaven and just got on. Whether it used to get boat trains from London I don't know. The equivalent station at Dover was converted into a cruise terminal, but I would think that a) the Ouse Estuary isn't deep enough and b) there wouldn't be much demand for cruise travel from Newhaven.
That sounds like the FCC "train" my dad, brother and I attempted to catch at Three Bridges on Wednesday. The twerps had put on only a 4-coach train on a Brighton to Bedford service, and it was already full and standing at Gatwick, where more people tried to board with their suitcases. A very nice young lass from Italy gave up her seat for Dad (needless to say the people in the priority seats stayed firmly in their seats). Coming back, the train was 26 minutes late and 29 by Three Bridges, though at least we all got seats. To be fair to them, there was a signal failure at Bedford, but I get the impression that even if you took the management down to Cliffe High Street and gave them several barrels of Harvey's, they would still be incapable of running the proverbial social occasion.
MissGull
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Thanks for this insight. I wonder what sort of numbers it had when it was fully in use? In the most recent times there was an 18.52 train Monday to Friday. This must have been the only service for a fair few years as all the pictures of slam door trains stopped at that station had number 52s up.
meeching gull
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Funny you say about the cruises I was a cab driver roughly 10 years ago and a couple of years
on the trot an American Boat came and moored and the firm I worked for got all the jobs taking
the yanks all over sussex wait and bring them back