Oxted Line

Oxted Line

Stations (from north to south)

	South Croydon
	Sanderstead
	Riddlesdown
	Upper Warlingham
	Woldingham
	Oxted
	Hurst Green

Lingfield	Edenbridge Town
Dormans	Hever
East Grinstead	Cowden
	Ashurst
	Eridge
	Crowborough
	Buxted
	Uckfield

The Oxted Line is a railway line in Southern England. It was originally operated jointly by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the South Eastern Railway. It is now part of the Southern franchise, who operate it as part of the Redhill-Tonbridge-Oxted section.

The line diverges from the London to Brighton main line at South Croydon. At Hurst Green Junction it splits, one branch terminating at East Grinstead, the other at Uckfield via Edenbridge.

Both branches formerly continued further:

from East Grinstead trains could connect to either Haywards Heath or Lewes. Part of the latter south of East Grinstead is preserved as the Bluebell Line.
from the Edenbridge line, trains travelled to Eridge, a junction for Lewes or Eastbourne. The latter section is closed, but trains still operate to Uckfield on the Lewes line line. A short stretch at Isfield (between Uckfield and Lewes) is preserved as the Lavender Line.

North of Sanderstead, at the former Selsdon railway station, there was until 1983 a connection with the line to Elmers End. At Eridge there is intended to be a connection with the preserved Spa Valley Railway (Tunbridge Wells and Eridge Line).

The line between Croydon and East Grinstead was opened as the Croydon, Oxted & East Grinstead Railway (a joint venture between the LBSCR and the SER) on 10 March 1884. In part it used trackbed constructed, but never used, by the abortive Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway in the 1860s.

The East Grinstead branch was not electrified until 1987. The Uckfield branch has still not been electrified, and is worked by Class 171 diesel multiple units (which replaced the Class 205 and Class 207 DEMUs previously in use on the line).

References

David Gould, The Croydon, Oxted & East Grinstead Railway. Oakwood Press, 2003. ISBN 0–85361–598–5.

External links

The Woodside & South Croydon Railway – this is the connection to Elmers End mentioned above.

Railway lines in Great Britain:
<p style="font-size: 90%">High-speed main lines:	<p style="font-size: 90%">Channel Tunnel Rail Link – Channel Tunnel
<p style="font-size: 90%">'Classic' main lines:	<p style="font-size: 90%">Cross-Country – East Coast – Great Eastern – Great Western – Midland – West Coast
<p style="font-size: 90%">Other main lines:	<p style="font-size: 90%">Brighton – Chiltern – Chatham – Hastings – Highland – Kent Coast – London, Tilbury and Southend – North Wales – Portsmouth Direct – Settle-Carlisle – South Wales – South Western – Welsh Marches – Wessex – West Anglia – West of England
<p style="font-size: 90%">Secondary routes:	<p style="font-size: 90%">Airedale – Arun Valley – Ayrshire Coast – Caldervale – Cambridge-Norwich – Cotswold – Dearne Valley – East Coastway – Golden Valley – Glasgow South Western – Hallam – Harrogate – Harwich – Hope Valley – Huddersfield – Lea Valley – Leeds-Bradford – Medway Valley – North Downs – Pontefract – Robin Hood – Riviera – Wakefield – West Coastway – West Highland – York & Selby
<p style="font-size: 90%">Commuter lines:	<p style="font-size: 90%">Alton – Argyle – Bexleyheath – Birmingham Cross-City – Braintree – Caterham – Catford Loop – Chase – Dartford Loop – Gospel Oak-Barking – Hayes – Inverclyde – Ivanhoe – Maesteg – Mid-Kent – Morecambe – North Clyde – North Kent – North London – Northern City – Oxted – Romford-Upminster – Severn Beach – Sheerness – South London – St Albans Abbey – Sutton & Mole Valley – Tattenham Corner – Walsall – West London – Wharfedale – Whifflet
<p style="font-size: 90%">Rural lines:	<p style="font-size: 90%">Atlantic Coast – Avocet – Bittern – Buxton – Cambrian – Crouch Valley – Cumbrian Coast – Conwy Valley – Derwent Valley – Durham Coast – East Suffolk – Esk Valley – Far North – Felixstowe – Fen Line – Furness – Heart of Wales – Heart of Wessex – Island Line – Kyle of Lochalsh – Looe Valley – Lymington – Maritime – Marshlink – Marston Vale – Penistone – Ribble Valley – St Ives – Sudbury – Tamar Valley – Tarka – Tees Valley – Tyne Valley – Wherry – Windermere – Yorkshire Coast
<p style="font-size: 90%">Closed major routes:	<p style="font-size: 90%">Great Central – Honeybourne – Somerset & Dorset – Waverley – Woodhead

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