Class 207 '3D Sussex' unit No.207001 leaving Uckfield station in the rain on 26th August 1988. With the closure of the line south to Lewes (where a junction allowed trains to continue on to Eastbourne or Brighton), the original station found itself stranded on the wrong side of a level crossing on the High Street which created traffic congestion whenever a train was arriving or departing from the station. The decision was therefore made to close the original station (which had been opened in 1868) and to open a new station on the other side of the road. The original station was demolished on 9 December 2000 after it had been damaged first by flooding and then by vandals. Since 1986 there had been a campaign to re-open the line south of Uckfield through to Lewes, known as the Wealden Line, and has attracted cross-party support. ©Gordon Edgar/Railphotoprints.co.uk