London and Brighton Railway
The earliest locomotive servicing facility at Brighton was a small engine shed to the north-west of the station, serving the Brighton - Shoreham line of the London and Brighton Railway in May 1840. The following year, with the completion of the London - Brighton main line, the railway opened a larger repair facility and motive power depot on the eastern side of the main line adjacent to the Brighton railway station. However a new workshop at Horley, midway between London and Brighton, also opened in 1841, was then planned to become the principal locomotive and carriage workshop of the new railway.
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