SHOULD we be surprised there was no official reply to Robert Evans’ concern regarding Hampden Park level crossing needing a bridge (Letters, November 19)?
For more than 40 years, since British Railways’ savage rail closures and cuts across the Sussex rail network, the service has been slower than in the days of steam on the coastway line.
This is mainly owing to the removal of the Willingdon Chord from Polegate to Pevensey and Westham, resulting in all coastway trains being diverted down into Hampden Park Station, then shunted in and out of Eastbourne terminus station, and back up again to Hampden Park after which coastway train services divide west or east.
Add the fact that since the rail closures the South Coast population has trebled, it is not surprising Hampden Park level crossing is train and traffic overloaded and needs a bridge – now.
John Stanaway
Lorna Road, Hove
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