This is number 3 of the ch00 ch00 series, which is a series of caches retracing the Dyke Railway's route. **Thanks to Brighton & Hove Council's Cityparks department, which allows geocaching.
Welcome to Rowan Halt!
I grew up partially on the bordering road and it wasn't until a school project in year 10 that I found out that there used to be a railway along the back of the road and a station here! A lot of people in the area still have no idea, so that is the idea behind this cache.
The railway connected to Aldrington and Hove stations to the SE and the Devil's Dyke to the north.
Rowan Halt was built late into the life of that railway, when Hangleton was growing, but the railway closed just a few years after, which was months before WWII started. The neighbours took advantage of the abandonment of the railway, by extending their gardens onto the railway embankment.
It's hard to find images/videos of Rowan Halt, unfortunately.
It's easy to see why people have forgotten about the station - the platforms were wooden, so it was very easily dismantled and there is barely a trace of it left. You can see some old iron and there is a strange green hut slightly up the path, but I don't know if that's anything to do with the station or railway.
This is the sort of view that people used to have from their gardens:
This is said to have been taken from 59 Elm Drive on the last day of the railway - New Year's Eve, 1938.