West Sussex Railway - Archaeology

Archaeology

For the modern railway explorer this is one of the least rewarding lines to trace as the formation was almost completely at ground level so almost nothing remains except a half mile section alongside Pagham harbour where the track was raised following a breach and subsequent flooding in 1911, a section of about 1 quarter of a mile, now a farm track between Pagham Harbour and the Selsey Golf Club and a quarter of a mile section (now a public footpath) west of Hunston Village the northern end of which ends at the abutments of the now defunct Tramway bridge across the Chichester Canal.A short section of trackbed is now a footpath from north of the Chichester Canal to Stockbridge Road, Chichester. The platforms of Hunston and Chalder station can also still be located in fields although badly overgrown.