Rail
Brighton railway station is the most important station in Sussex, where lines from the north, west and east terminate.
Other currently-operating railway Stations in Brighton and Hove are:
- North of Brighton: Preston Park.
- West of Brighton: Hove; Aldrington; Portslade; Fishersgate (on the border with West Sussex).
- East of Brighton: London Road; Moulsecoomb; Falmer.
Brighton station opened in 1840 by the London and Brighton Railway, which also established one of the first railway-owned locomotive works (now the New England Quarter). The station provides fast and frequent connections to Gatwick Airport, several London main-line stations, Luton Airport and Bedford and also to Ashford International.
Regular services also operate via Bristol to Wales.
The express London Victoria service takes 51 minutes today, compared with one hour in 1910, 80 minutes in 1859 and up to two hours when the service began in 1841. This line's initial permanent way will soon form a walkable Greenway from the original platform location (below the current station, off Trafalgar Street) through the New England Quarter development and over the 1841 bridge over New England Road.
In addition to the main line to London, Brighton railway station has connections to Shoreham-by-Sea (1840) via the West Coastway Line, and Lewes (1846) by the East Coastway Line. The original Hove Station (1840–80 then 1905–32 called Holland Road) was located at the junction of Davigdor, Holland and Cromwell Roads. The current Hove station site opened as Cliftonville in 1865 and was joined to the London main line in 1879 by the Cliftonville tunnel.
Other stations within Brighton, with opening dates, are London Road station (1877), which is located between Ditching Rise and Springfield Road at some distance from London Road itself; Moulsecoomb railway station (1980); and Falmer railway station (1846; moved to its present site nearer Brighton in 1890), all on the East Coastway Line. On the Brighton Main Line, non express London trains stop at Preston Park railway station (opened as Preston in 1869).
Read more about this topic: Transport In Brighton And Hove
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