The Cuckoo Line[1][2] is an informal name for the now defunct railway service which linked Polegate and Eridge[3] in East Sussex, England, from 1880 to 1968. It was nicknamed the Cuckoo Line by drivers, from a tradition observed at the annual fair at Heathfield, a station on the route. At the fair, which was held each April, a lady would release a cuckoo from a basket, it being supposedly the 'first cuckoo of spring'.[4]
The railway line served the following Sussex communities: Polegate, Hailsham, Hellingly, Horam for Waldron, Heathfield, Mayfield, Rotherfield and Eridge. Services continued through Eridge and onward via Groombridge to Tunbridge Wells.
The Hailsham-Eridge section closed in 1965, the Polegate-Hailsham branch surviving until 1968. Eridge-Tunbridge Wells closed in 1985, and this line has been resurrected as the Spa Valley Railway.
^Baker, S.K. (1980). Rail Atlas of Britain (3rd ed.). Oxford Publishing Company. p. 12. ISBN 0-86093-106-4.
^Conolly, W. Philip (1976) [1958]. British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer. Ian Allan Ltd. p. 5. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.
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Hellingly was a railway station on the now closed Polegate to Eridge line (the CuckooLine) in East Sussex. It served the village of Hellingly. The station...
former branch line to Eridge via Hailsham (CuckooLine), which closed in 1968. Leaving the station, there once was a junction for the spur line then continued...
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facing line to Hailsham and the 1880 extension of the CuckooLine to Eridge, and the re-aligned branchline to Eastbourne which the present line follows...
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