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Likewise in 1877 authority was granted to the Lewes and East Grinstead Railway ( L & EGR ) for the construction of a line between these towns, roughly parallel to the ‘ Cuckoo Line ’.

This line ran, and was sponsored by a number of local landowners, including the Earl of Sheffield, and also included a branch from Horsted Keynes to Haywards Heath on the Brighton main line.

A year later an Act of 1878 enabled the LB & SCR to acquire and operate the new lines which opened in August 1882 and September 1883.

The East Grinstead-Lewes line subsequently became known as the “ Bluebell line ” and following its closure in 1958, the section between and was taken over by the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society.