'Thumper' by the Mill..
BR DEMU 'Hampshire Unit' 1115 approaching Uckfield station in the February 1966, and passing 'Town Mill'..
1115 was renumbered 'Class 205' 205015, and was scrapped in 1993, but some examples survived in service with private UK rail operating companies unti 2004, and several have been preserved.
Today (2016) there is just a single track here, surrounded by trees, but the mill buildings are still there, in use as offices.. The line now terminates at Uckfield, at a 'new' single-platform station just before the site of the original one..
Restored from an unfocussed grainy original..
Original slide - photograph by J S Gilks
'Thumper' by the Mill..
BR DEMU 'Hampshire Unit' 1115 approaching Uckfield station in the February 1966, and passing 'Town Mill'..
1115 was renumbered 'Class 205' 205015, and was scrapped in 1993, but some examples survived in service with private UK rail operating companies unti 2004, and several have been preserved.
Today (2016) there is just a single track here, surrounded by trees, but the mill buildings are still there, in use as offices.. The line now terminates at Uckfield, at a 'new' single-platform station just before the site of the original one..
Restored from an unfocussed grainy original..
Original slide - photograph by J S Gilks