4 March 2013

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TOWN Mayor Liz Bennett led more than 700 walkers along the Bluebell line from East Grinstead to Kingscote in a fundraiser which raised £50,000  for the historic steam railway.

Conditions for the walk were freezing which meant the ground was hard underfoot instead of the mudbath of recent weeks which had necessitated calling the walk off twice before.

But with conditions perfect, the walkers enjoyed their last chance to walk the length of the line before the first train steams into East Grinstead station at the end of March – and raised twice as much money as had been initially hoped.