History of Fletching Station

Fletching Station originally opened in 1882 as part of the Lewes & East Grinstead Railway, owned and operated by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway.  It lived an uneventful existence until the line was closed in 1955 by British Railways.  When the line reopened in 1956 however, Fletching remained closed because it, like Kingscote and Barcombe stations, was not mentioned on the original 1877 Act of Parliament which required four daily services to be operated.  When the second closure came when the act was repealed in 1958, the line was soon lifted and the station buildings were demolished.

However, in the mid-1990s the Bluebell Railway succeeded in purchasing the trackbed south of Sheffield Park to Fletching, and now the extension is nearly complete..