Spring 2024
With the stock now removed from Horsted Keynes Platform 1, a proper assessment of the state of the coping stones and the supporting wall has now been made. The supporting wall si in a very poor state and needs rebuilding. Some of the coping stones had a considerable overhang – why this was the case caused some puzzlement.
 
(Photos – Jon Goff)
Removal of the track showed that showed that Platform 1 was originally straight the south end and had been changed at some stage. A map dated 1910 shows that the modification had been made by then presumably to accommodate a set of points south of the platform to allow trains to or from Ardingly to use either Platform 1 or 2. Curving the south end of the Platform 1 required a change in alignment of the track at the platform which was apparently ‘solved’ by increasing the overhand on the coping stones – a problem which will need to be resolved before returning Platform 1 to service.
