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LB and SCR station

View from the track

Photo by Farid Ullah

View from the track

By Farid Ullah, railway worker

"This is the orginal London to Brighton South Coast Railway station. I particularly like this view because I imagine this to be the very first sight the passengers would have seen coming into Brighton station. They would have been quite wealthy passengers being pulled by a steam locomotive similar to Stephenson's Rocket and I imagine them to be quite terrified. It would have been like a trip to space from today's point of view."

Image and text from the 'My Brighton' exhibit

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Nice picture Farid and quite an unusual view, however the first trains into Brighton would probably not have been hauled by something looking like the Rocket as even by the 1840s that would have been an obsolete design and quite underpowered for the day.

By Adrian Baron (25/08/2007)