Date: 8th August 2004

Looking up at the start of the tip from the end of the long straight up from Ash Lea farm. Thi s section of tip (south of Imberhorne Lane bridge) is owned by the Bluebell, and comprises around 18,000 cubic metres of clay and sandstone, mostly originating from the early 1970s development of Beeching Way in East Grinstead (a bypass on the route of the old railway line to Forest Row).

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Date: 14th November 2004

The view a few months later is a lot more presentable, with the face of the tip having been subject to further vegetation clearance.

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Date: 25th March 2005

Over the Easter weekend in March 2005, work started to lay a further five panels of track to extend the line right up to the face of the tip, as part of the preparations for spoil removal by rail to Horsted Keynes.

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Date: 19 th June 2005

The spoil trains to remove material from the Bluebell owned section of the tip had only been running for 2 weeks when this photo was taken, but had changed the view considerably. The track has been extended into the excavated section, while material is piled up ready for loading on the right.

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