Hellingly Hospital Railway
| Hellingly Hospital Railway | |
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 Electric locomotive with freight wagons, 1906.
When it was shut down in 1959, this was the longest-serving electric locomotive in Great Britain | |
 Hellingly Hospital Railway
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| Route length: | 2 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
The Hellingly Hospital Railway was a 2 km standard gauge industrial railway of East Sussex County Council, with the building materials, coal and passengers from the train Hellingly at the Cuckoo Line of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway to Hellingly Hospital , a mental institution in Hailsham , brought were.
The railway line was built in 1899 and opened for passenger traffic on July 20, 1903, after being electrified in 1902. After the consolidation of the railway lines in 1923, the volume of passenger traffic sank so drastically that passenger traffic was no longer profitable and was then discontinued. Freight traffic ceased in 1959 after the hospital's heating was switched from coal to oil.
The route ran from the junction just south of Hellingly train station, past a farm and the Park House, to the hospital.
vehicles
During the construction of the hospital, Joseph Howe & Company used a two-axle saddle tank steam locomotive to transport construction materials. The locomotive was newly acquired in 1900. In 1902, the railway line was electrified with a single-phase 500 V DC overhead line and supplied with electricity from the hospital's power station, which was also connected to the national power grid. After the completion of the construction work and the electrification of the railway line, the steam locomotive was sold in 1903.
Robert W. Blackwell & Co supplied a two-axle electric locomotive, possibly imported from Germany, with which two freight cars loaded with coal could be pulled.
A small rail bus for up to 12 passengers was available for passenger transport.
Individual evidence
- ↑ HR Stones: The Hellingly Hospital Railway Archived from the original on February 5, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) In: Railway Magazine . 103, No. 680, December 1957, pp. 869-872. Retrieved May 29, 2008.
- ^ Harding, Peter A. (1989). The Hellingly Hospital Railway. Woking: Peter A. Harding. ISBN 0-9509414-5-X . Page 5.
- ↑ a b Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1986). Branch Lines to Tunbridge Wells from Oxted, Lewes and Polegate. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-32-0 . Section 73 and Section 74.
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 16 ″ N , 0 ° 15 ′ 37 ″ E