SideTracked - Crowhurst Traditional Cache
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We have Motorway Mayhem and we have A-Road Anarchy. Now a series for public transport users! SideTracked Caches are intended to provide quick cache-and-dashes at train stations.
Crowhurst Station is on the main Hastings to London (Southeastern) line.
Crowhurst is a small village quite close to where we live, a couple of miles South of Battle, which you've probably heard of due to William the Conqueror and the battle in 1066.
It boasts an excellent primary school, a Church, a ruined manor house, a good pub, playing fields and, despite a very small number of commuters to London, the longest railway platform on the Hastings to London line.
Crowhurst Viaduct, also known as the Seventeen Arches, was built by the SECR between 1897 and 1902 at a cost of £244,000. It carried the Crowhurst to Bexhill West line over the marsh at Crowhurst (North West of St Leonards).
The viaduct was an impressive structure due to its massive foundations on the marsh land. Each pier was built on concrete blocks measuring 52 x 32 feet which were sunk about 30 feet into the marsh land.
The line was closed in 1964 and the viaduct was left isolated without a track. Eight of the seventeen arches were blown up on 23rd May 1969, and the remaining structure was demolished on 12th June of the same year.
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You are looking for a black film canister with a mini certificate for the first finder.
There is no need to enter the station to find this cache!
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(Decrypt)
Gbc bs pbapergr cbfg svir srrg hc, va vil.
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