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The London and Brighton Railway Act, passed on 15 July 1837, [1] granted the London & Brighton Railway Company the right to build a railway line from Norwood to Brighton, a branch line from Brighton to Shoreham-by-Sea and another from Brighton to Newhaven via Lewes. [2]
Brighton is an unincorporated community in Tift County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. [1] History. A post office was in operation at Brighton from 1900 until 1905.
The new H2 class locomotives built by Brighton railway works and introduced between June 1911 and January 1912. They were an immediate success and shared with the H1 class the London to Brighton express trains including the heavily loaded Pullman services the Brighton Limited, and the Southern Belle, which the LB&SCR described as "the most luxurious train in the World".
B1 class Gladstone at the National Railway Museum, York, decorated as it was for Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 [1] The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway B1 Class is a class of 0-4-2 express passenger steam locomotives, known from the name of the first, No. 214, as the "Gladstones".
First moves from Brighton westward: 1840. The London and Brighton Railway was authorised by Parliament on 15 July 1837. It was to build from a junction with the London and Croydon Railway at Norwood to Brighton, and to build branches east and west at Brighton, to Lewes and Newhaven, and to Shoreham.
The first ten were numbered 595–604 and the second ten were numbered 1–10. [1] The Southern Railway initially added a "B" prefix to these numbers and later renumbered them 2595–2604 and 2001–2010. BR added 30000 to the numbers but it is believed that only 32005 actually carried its number. [6]
An act of Parliament, the London and Brighton Railway Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. cxix) for the construction of the line was passed in July 1837, with an authorised capital of £2.4 million. [9] The new company was also permitted to buy the track of the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Iron Railway .