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Steyning Line

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The Steyning Line (also known as the Adur Valley Line) was a railway line that connected the West Sussex market town of Horsham with the once bustling south-coast port of Shoreham-by-Sea, with connections to Brighton. [1]

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A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2).

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Academic term

An academic term (or simply "term") is a portion of an academic year, the time during which an educational institution holds classes.

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Arun Valley line

The Arun Valley line, also known as the Mid Sussex line, is part of the Southern and Thameslink operated railway services.

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Arundel railway station

Arundel railway station serves the market town of Arundel in West Sussex.

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Banbury

Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England.

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Barbara Castle

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT (née Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons, until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody.

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Baynards railway station

Baynards was a railway station on the Cranleigh Line.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.

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Billingshurst

Billingshurst is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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Bramber railway station

Bramber was a railway station in England on the Steyning Line which served the village of Bramber.

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Branch

A branch or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub).

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Brickworks

A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale.

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Bridle path

A bridle path, also bridleway, equestrian trail, horse riding path, ride, bridle road, or horse trail, is a path, trail or a thoroughfare that is used by people riding on horses.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club is a professional football club based in Falmer, East Sussex, England.

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Brighton main line

The Brighton Main Line (also known as the South Central Main Line) is a British railway line divided in the north into two sections running from London Victoria and London Bridge to Brighton.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Bypass (road)

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Christ's Hospital railway station

Christ's Hospital railway station is near Horsham in West Sussex, England.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Company secretary

A company secretary is a senior position in a private sector company or public sector organisation.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Cranleigh line

The Cranleigh line was a linking railway line that connected Guildford on the Portsmouth-London line, the county town of Surrey, with the West Sussex market town of Horsham on another line to the south coast.

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Crystal Palace, London

Crystal Palace is an area in South London, England, named after the Crystal Palace Exhibition building which stood in the area from 1854 until it was destroyed by fire in 1936.

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Dorking

Dorking is a market town in Surrey, England between Ranmore Common in the North Downs range of hills and Leith Hill in the Greensand Ridge, centred from London.

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Downs Link

The Downs Link is a 36.7-mile (58.7 km) footpath and bridleway linking the North Downs Way at St. Martha's Hill in Surrey with the South Downs Way near Steyning in West Sussex and on via the Coastal Link to Shoreham-by-Sea.

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Ernest Marples

Alfred Ernest Marples, Baron Marples, PC (9 December 1907 – 6 July 1978), was a British Conservative politician who served as Postmaster General (1957–1959) and Minister of Transport (1959–1964).

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Fireman (steam engine)

Fireman or stoker is the job title for someone whose job is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, to heat a building, power a steam engine, etc.

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Guildford

Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.

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Henfield

Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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Henry Kerby

Henry Briton Kerby (11 December 1914 – 4 January 1971) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel and Shoreham.

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Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate

Established in 1840, HM Railway Inspectorate (HMRI: Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate) is the British organisation responsible for overseeing safety on Britain's railways and tramways.

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Horsham

Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England.

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Hove

Hove is a town in East Sussex, England, immediately west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove.

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Joseph Locke

Joseph Locke (9 August 1805 – 18 September 1860) was a notable English civil engineer of the nineteenth century, particularly associated with railway projects.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lancing College

Lancing College is an independent boarding and day school in southern England, UK.

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Lancing railway station

Lancing railway station is in Lancing in the county of West Sussex, England.

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List of railway stations in Dover

Dover, Kent has had numerous railway stations due to the legacy of competition between the South Eastern Railway (SER) and London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) and the subsequent rationalisation attempts by their successors; South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR), Southern Railway and British Rail Southern Region.

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Littlehampton railway station

Littlehampton railway station is in Littlehampton in the county of West Sussex, England.

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London and Brighton Railway

The London and Brighton Railway (L&BR) was a railway company in England which was incorporated in 1837 and survived until 1846.

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London and Croydon Railway

The London and Croydon Railway (L&CR) was an early railway in England.

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London and South Western Railway

The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922.

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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR; known also as "the Brighton line", "the Brighton Railway" or the Brighton) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

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Loxwood

Loxwood is a small village and civil parish with several outlying settlements, including those at Alfold Bars, Gunshot Common, Flitchfold, Roundstreet Common, Drungewick Lane and Manor, and Wephurst Park, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, within the Low Weald.

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Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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National Trails

National Trails are long distance footpaths and bridleways in England and Wales.

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Newhaven, East Sussex

Newhaven is a town in the Lewes District of East Sussex in England.

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North Downs

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.

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North Downs Way

The North Downs Way National Trail is a long-distance path in southern England, opened in 1978.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Parish councils in England

A parish council is a civil local authority found in England and is the first tier of local government.

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Partridge Green

Partridge Green is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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Partridge Green railway station

Partridge Green was a railway station on the Steyning Line which served the village of Partridge Green.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Richard Beeching

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Conservative Party in Britain.

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Rights of way in England and Wales

In England and Wales, other than in the 12 Inner London Boroughs and the City of London, the "right of way" refers to paths on which the public have a legally protected right to pass and re-pass.

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River Adur

The Adur is a river in Sussex, England; it gives its name to the Adur district of West Sussex.

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River Mole

The River Mole is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England.

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Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an early railway and civil engineer.

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Robertsbridge railway station

Robertsbridge railway station is on the Hastings line in the south of England and serves the village of Robertsbridge, East Sussex.

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Royal assent

Royal assent or sanction is the method by which a country's monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), "Royal Gendarmerie of Canada"; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as "the Force") is the federal and national police force of Canada.

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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a professional body that accredits professionals within the land, property, construction, and infrastructure sectors worldwide.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Samuel Laing (science writer)

Samuel Laing, (12 December 1812 – 6 August 1897), was a British railway administrator, politician, and writer on science and religion during the Victorian era.

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Secretary of State for Transport

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport.

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Shoreham-by-Sea

Shoreham-by-Sea (often shortened to Shoreham) is a seaside town and port in West Sussex, England.

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Single-track railway

A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track.

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South Downs Way

The South Downs Way is a long distance footpath and bridleway running along the South Downs in southern England.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Southdown Motor Services

Southdown Motor Services Ltd operates bus and coach services in East and West Sussex and parts of Hampshire, in southern England.

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Southern Railway (UK)

The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.

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Southern Region of British Railways

The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised.

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Southwater

Southwater is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, with a population of roughly 10,000.

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Southwater railway station

Southwater was a railway station on the Steyning Line which served the village of Southwater.

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Steyning

Steyning (pronounced as Stenning) is a small rural town and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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Steyning Grammar School

Steyning Grammar School is a state comprehensive school in West Sussex, England.

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Steyning railway station

Steyning railway station was on the Steyning Line which served the small market town of Steyning.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Brassey

Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century.

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Track (rail transport)

The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.

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Transport Act 1962

The Transport Act 1962 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 1964

The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on 15 October 1964, five years after the previous election, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party, first led by Winston Churchill, had entered power.

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Upper Beeding

Upper Beeding is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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West Coastway line

The West Coastway line is a railway line in England following closely the south coast of Sussex and Hampshire, between the cities Brighton and Southampton.

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West Grinstead railway station

West Grinstead was a railway station on the Steyning Line which served the village of West Grinstead.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Wiston House

Wiston House is a 16th century Grade I listed building set in the South Downs National Park on the south coast of England, surrounded by over 6,000 acres of parkland in Wiston, West Sussex.

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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1926 United Kingdom general strike

The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted 9 days, from 3 May 1926 to 12 May 1926.

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1st Canadian Division

The 1st Canadian Division is an operational command and control formation of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, based at CFB Kingston.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyning_Line

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