Hartfield was a railway station serving

Hartfield Hartfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The parish also includes the settlements of Colemans Hatch, Hammerwood and Holtye, all lying on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest. Geography The main ...

, England, on the

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which closed in 1967, a casualty of the

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.Hartfield railway station on Subterranea Britannica
/ref> The station opened on 1 October 1866 and the buildings were designed by

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. The station building is now divided between a day nursery and a private house. The route of the railway line is now a cycle path (the Forest Way). A.A. Milne, the creator of

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, lived in Hartfield. The station appears in a British Transport Film entitled ''Farmer Moving South'', which recounted the moving of the entire farm stock of Robert Ropner, by special train from Skutterskelfe Hall in

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to Perryhill Farm, Hartfield in December 1950. The entire move took 30 hours and was nine hours late in arriving at

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on 15 December. The film is available on a

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DVD.

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Image:Hartfield east sussex platforms.jpeg, Remains of the platform from the cycle path Image:Hartfield east sussex station building.jpg, Hartfield station in 2005 Image:Hartfield Railway Station 2.jpg, Another view of Hartfield station

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Disused railway stations in East Sussex Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1967 Beeching closures in England 1866 establishments in England Charles Henry Driver railway stations

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