from Mr Milham's bankers by Lavender Line Ltd. The Lavender Line Ltd is in turn controlled by the Lavender Line Preservation Society, a registered charity formed initially by volunteers who had helped Mr Milham. The first public trains under the new owners operated on Sunday 30 May 1993 after significant track alterations required by the Railway Inspectorate. The initial has subsequently been extended to just under with the line terminating at the first of two bridges over the river Uck. The track remaining south of Uckfield in 1983 reached the second Uck bridge (about further north) but the two never joined. Stations Isfield Isfield station remains the headquarters, operating base, and engineering base of the Lavender Line. Since its restoration in the 1980s the station has been a popular attraction for the local area, and remains a well-celebrated example of a restored period railway station. The station has won awards for its restoration, and proved popular as a location for film and television shoots requiring a period railway station. The original buildings all survive except for the down side platform shelter replaced by a replica used as a shop, though considerable changes have been made to the up side buildings to convert the original booking office, waiting room and lady's toilet to a cafe. The station house has been sympathetically extended but is not part of the Lavender Line and remains occupied as a private dwelling. The signal box is now grade 2 listed and does not operate the station. Worth Halt Work started in December 2011 on building a halt style platform at the Uck river bridge, together with a picnic area. It was opened on the Saturday of the first Diesel Gala in July 2012, and named Worth Halt after the parish in which it lies. The construction of the halt allows passengers to travel between two permanent stations, whilst the line remains limited to its current length. Future expansion Despite attempts by the Wealden Line Campaign to have the line from through Isfield to reopened to passenger traffic, a July 2008 study concluded that although technically feasible, the line would be "economically unviable". Any reopening might affect the operations of the Lavender Line or entail a move to a new location, but this depends on the details of any final scheme adopted. In any event, the campaign has not succeeded, an application to the "restoring your railway"