Three bridges
The former village of Three Bridges is now part of Crawley in West Sussex . In 2011 there were 7253 residents here.
At the end of the 1940s, Three Bridges and Crawley were among the first towns in the "New Town" urban development program .
railroad
In Three Bridges, the Arun Valley Line has been branching off the London-Brighton railway since 1848 . Until 1967 there was also a railway line in an easterly direction to Tunbridge Wells .
The development of Three Bridges is closely related to the development of the railroad. Among other things, built Siemens in Three Bridges for 340 million pounds sterling a new operating plant ( English Train Care Facility ) for trains of British Rail Class 700 . In Three Bridges, Network Rail operates one of twelve "Rail Operating Centers" (comparable to the operations center (DB Netz) ) in Great Britain .
Individual evidence
- ↑ district website
- ↑ api.parliament.uk Answer by Lewis Silkin to a question from Baron Mitchison in the British Parliament in 1946
- ↑ www.disused-stations.org.uk
- ↑ siemens.com on the subject
- ↑ www.railwayoperators.co.uk
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ W