The East: The Railway and Ditchling Common

 It's become a bit of an institution in our house, at least, to wave at the trains on the bridge at Batchelors Farm. 9 times out of ten you'll get a honk, a wave or a subdued depot whistle from the drivers here. I'm hoping they're primed for the first day of the job with their necessary duties to be performed.

Burgess Hill is on the north/south line from London to Brighton but actually has two stations. Wivelsfield Station isn't actually in Wivelsfield and not very convenient to it either. It happens to be in the part of town known as World's End. There are couple of theories about this name. The first states that this is the point where the up and down parts of the line met on their construction, a nickname given to it by the navvies. The other theory is a little darker and concerns a train collision that happened here in 1899.

Either way, you'll cross the line if you head east enough and you might also see the line that goes from Wivelsfield towards Lewes and beyond.

Ditchling Common lies eastwards, A Site of Special Scientific Interest and now a Country Park for you to explore at your leisure.

More orientation:

North, South and West