Rother Valley Railway

I like the choice of brick - the colour is random. It would look like a new house in a housing estate if all the bricks were the same.

 

Very impressive - a new landmark building for Robertsbridge and a great facility for the railway.

But it also somehow reminded me of this:

"I suppose you know what we mean by a station, it has a corrugated roofing; it is not a Clapham Junction"

(Col. Stephens, giving evidence at the 1905 public inquiry for the K&ESR’s, never built, Headcorn-Maidstone Extension.)

 

Yes, the brick choice is very good. Anyone know what it's called? I am planning a project it would look good on.

 

The architectural style of the new station building at Robertsbridge is designed to follow the same style as the Colonel's station building at Tenterden - including the 'corrugated iron' roof covering. The roof covering we used on the toilet block part of the building erected a few years ago, and now the rest of the building compiles with modern building regulation and looks much as what is on Tenterden building - but with what's around 8 inches of insulation bonded onto the underside of the steel covering. Here they are - delivered to Robertsbridge station yesterday! Mike

 

How far is ity from Robertsbridge to Bodiam?

 

3.1/2 mile

 

Have we established the (minus) datum for the buffer stops at Roberts bridge Junction yet Mike?
I'm not sure where the original zero was either the mainline junction or the KESR/ mainline boundary I guess. The replica 3 1/4 miles post is opposite Bodiam station building.
I remember finding the pre-preservation (br?) 2 1/2 mile post in the woods before Udiam Farm with Mark Younge during the rebuild. It was only the second one I've seen.