The Cuckoo Line is an informal name for the now defunct railway service which linked Polegate and Eridge in East Sussex England from 1880 to 1968. It was nicknamed the Cuckoo Line by drivers from a tradition observed at the annual fair at Heathfield a station on the route. At the fair which was held each April a lady would release a cuckoo from a basket it being supposedly the ‘first cuckoo of spring’.
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closing year
1965-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
location
Kent, East Sussex
number of stations
8
opening year
1880-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
owner
Southern Railway (UK), London Brighton and South Coast Railway
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