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The East Coastway line is a railway line along the south coast of Sussex to the east of Brighton, England. Trains to the west of Brighton operate on the West Coastway line . Together with the West Coastway and the Marshlink line to the east, the line forms part of a continuous route from Havant to Ashford .
The Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway was an early railway in southern England that built the East Coastway line running between the three East Sussex towns mentioned in its name. The company existed from February 1844 but only operated trains for a few weeks during June and July 1846 before it was amalgamated with other companies to form ...
London, South East: Third rail, 750 V DC: East Coastway line: Brighton to Hastings: 1846–1871: South East: Third rail, 750 V DC: Eastleigh–Fareham line: 1841: South East: Third rail, 750 V DC: Eastleigh–Romsey line: 1847: South East — East West Rail: Oxford to Bletchley: 2024: South East England: Not initially Elizabeth line
The West Coastway line runs almost alongside or within a few miles of the south coast of Sussex and Hampshire, between Brighton and Southampton. [1] [2] [3]East of Portsmouth the line was electrified (using 750 V DC third rail) by the Southern Railway before the Second World War in two stages:
It carries the East Coastway Line between Brighton and London Road railway stations. Built in the 1840s for the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway by the locomotive engineer and railway architect John Urpeth Rastrick , the sharply curving structure has 27 arches and about 10 million bricks.
Brighton railway station is the principal station serving the city of Brighton and Hove in England, operated by Govia Thameslink Railway. It is the southern terminus of the Brighton Main Line, the western terminus of the East Coastway Line and the eastern terminus of the West Coastway Line.
Polegate railway station serves Polegate in East Sussex, England. It is on the East Coastway Line , 61 miles 39 chains (99.0 km) from London Bridge , and train services are provided by Southern .
The single-track branch line to Eastbourne from Polegate on the Brighton to Hastings line was opened by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) on 14 May 1849. [2] As the town became an ever more popular seaside resort two further stations followed: the first in 1866 and the present station, designed by F.D. Brick, in 1886. [3]