13 March 2013

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MP Nicholas Soames joined Town Mayor Liz Bennett for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new East Grinstead mainline railway station.

Welcoming the completion of the building Council Leader Norman Webster said: “The new station is a significant improvement on what we had before, and during the next financial year work will begin on improving the bus depot with better disabled access, real time information boards and more modern shelters.

“Cyclists are very well supplied with safe and secure storage in an area protected from the elements, and once inside the station there is an excellent coffee shop run by a local businessman. We are hopeful that disabled access to both platforms will be improved in time.”

* THE new station should be put to good use during the coming summer by visitors from London arriving to take a step back in time on the Bluebell Railway. The first steam train is scheduled to arrive by the end of March after the completion of a 30 year project to extend the line into East Grinstead.