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The Last Days of the Pullman Works
Ghost-Trains
Photo:The Train shed, looking South, back towards Brighton Station
Photo:The Western wall of the Train Shed
Photo:The Machine Shop in October 2008, immediatly prior to demolition
Photo:Another view of the Machine Shop. Note the Colchester lathe in the foreground: there were still a quantity of machine tools in situ at this time including pillar drills, grinders, lathes and planing machines. Most were clearly visiblebut will invariably be scrapped when the site is cleared.
Photo:This is the Foreman's Hut and stands against the Northern wall of the Train Running Shed. It is in suprising condition seeing that it has remained relatively untouched for 40 odd years.
Photo:This view shows the Wood Store, which stands on the western edge of the site, at the northern end of the building. This is adjacent to the CliftonvilleCurve, where it comes through from Hove due London-bound.
Photo:This view shows the exterior of the Wood Store
Photo:This photo shows the Southern end of the site, viewed from the west. The path into the site (and the main enterance) are just off left of this photo.
Photo:This picture shows the burnt-out section of the Pullman Works building, at the northern end of the site. Looking through the debris that covers the floor of this area, there appered to be a lot of bits of model railway track and Scalextric track. It could be possible that they were intended to be exibits at a museum, but we will sadly never know...
Photo:Roof detail of the burnt-out northern end.
Photo:The main enterance for the Pullman Works. This stands on the Western side of the site, and can only be reached by a steep path and staircases leading up to Highcroft Villas.
Photo:View of the Wood Store, this time looking South.

As some of you may be aware, the site of the old Pullman Works is sadly being demolished. It was intended some years ago that the site would be considered suitable for a museum of Brighton's railway history and up until recently, the building contained a huge variety of important and quite significant railway artefacts.

Sadly, because there is no road access to the site and the only access being via a steep hillside path with numerous staircases, or by rail, the transition into a railway museum never came to fruition.

The following photos were taken in October 2008, showing the Pullman Works Building as it appeared at that time.

More pictures are available at: http://brighton-works.synthasite.com.Select "Pullman Works" from the directory menu.

This page was added on 31/10/2008.

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Observed the site this week 4th November 2008. Totally flattened only scrap metal awaiting to be loaded and taken away to Eastleigh. If you visit quickly and view from Highcroft bridge you may glance the three glass lined tanks which once were Esso, Shell and ShellMex tankers after they were separated from their bogies.

By Ernie Cummins (07/11/2008)

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