Brighton Railway Station

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Brighton Railway Station
Brighton Railway Station
Brighton Railway Station
Data
Operating point type Long-distance train station
Design Terminus
Platform tracks 8th
abbreviation BTN
IBNR 7000321
opening 1840
Architectural data
architect David Mocatta
location
City / municipality Brighton
county East Sussex
Part of the country England
Country United Kingdom
Coordinates 50 ° 49 '44 "  N , 0 ° 8' 28"  W Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '44 "  N , 0 ° 8' 28"  W.
Railway lines
List of train stations in the United Kingdom
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The Brighton train station is a rail transportation hub in Brighton , City of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex , England . The covered with a steel and glass hall railhead is located just north of downtown. The station is the terminus of the Brighton Main Line from London and the starting point of the West Coastway Line to Southampton / Portsmouth and the East Coastway Line to Seaford / Eastbourne - Hastings .

history

Brighton Station began operating in 1840 when the Brighton - Shoreham-by-Sea section of what is now the West Coastway Line , built by the London and Brighton Railway , opened. In addition to the passenger station, a freight station and a locomotive depot were also built.

In 1841 the Brighton Main Line and thus the direct train connection to London was completed with the gap between Brighton and Haywards Heath .

In 1846 the East Coastway Line was opened to St. Leonhards Marina West (part of Hastings ). In 1933 the Brighton Main Line and until 1937 also the coast lines were electrified with a side busbar.

buildings

The entrance building , which still exists today, was planned by the architect David Mocatta (1806–1882) in the style of the Italian Renaissance and opened in 1841 with the route to Shoreham.

In 1882/83 the station was expanded considerably. The imposing platform hall and the roofing of the station forecourt were built. In 1999/2000 the hall was thoroughly renovated and restored to its blue color.

The station has eight platform tracks on four central platforms. Between tracks 7 and 8 there is still the former "Cab Way", the taxi way that is no longer used. The former platform track 9 now only serves as a siding, the platform serves as a footpath connection outside the area separated by platform barriers. Until 1971 there were also two tracks 10 and 11 outside of today's platform hall, which had become superfluous with the closure of the short branch line to the Brighton district of Kemp Town.

  • View of the reception building in 1841

  • The same point of view in 2003; in front of the building the canopy and behind it the two-aisled platform hall from 1882/83

  • Platform locks in the hall

  • Platform 9 outside the platform barriers

In the triangle between the western coastline and the Brighton Main Line was the railway depot , a little further towards London the wagon plant, which is still in operation today.

East of the station was the locomotive factory of the Southern Railway and its predecessor companies from 1852 to 1958 . After a British license for the Isetta was manufactured in the halls for a few years , the plant was demolished in 1969 and the site was used as a parking lot. Since 2009 it has been redeveloped as the New England Quarter urban development project .

The freight yard , down the valley next to the station and the locomotive factory, was shut down in the 1980s. Some of it has already been rebuilt, and some of it is being developed as part of the New England Quarter project.

  • Railway facilities: on the left the western coastal line and the former steam locomotive depot, behind it today's railcar depot, in the middle the tracks to London, on the right the former locomotive factory, today the New England Quarter and behind it the London Road Viaduct of the eastern coastal line

  • Locomotive factory (photo from 1961 with the famous Brighton Belle electric pullman suit )

  • The locomotive factory site as a parking lot from 1971 to approx. 2006

  • New England Quarter on the Locomotive Factory

business

Societies

The station is served by the companies Southern , Gatwick Express , First Capital Connect and First Great Western .

The Cross Country introduced the end of 2008 their trains to Birmingham one which on the West London Line led.

Train connections

West Coastway Line and East Coastway Line trains to / from London bypass Brighton Station.

Web links

Commons : Brighton Railway Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://spartacus-educational.com/RAbrightonST.htm
  2. ^ New England Quarter on the City of Brighton and Hove website