But in one idyllic corner of East Sussex, that prospect has got the locals, well, rather steamed up. They are trying to prevent a heritage railway line being extended by two miles from Bodiam to Robertsbridge amid accusations of bullying and environmental vandalism. Using a CPO to take someone's land for a heritage railway is immoral.' RVR chairman Gardner Crawley, 74, said: 'There's a lot of very wealthy people in East Sussex but parts of it are very deprived – and the big employer nowadays is tourism. It's not as though we're putting a new line across virgin land – there was a railway there until the 1960s.'

Source: Daily Mail May 11, 2018 21:01 UTC