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The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (New Lines) Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. lxviii) gave the LB&SCR power to own and operate its own steam vessels. [9] Resultantly, in 1863 the company's French partner Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest agreed to operate the Newhaven–Dieppe passenger
At 142 metres long, and with a draught of 5.7m, [6] she is the maximum-sized ferry that Newhaven can currently safely accommodate. [7] With a modern, luxury interior she gave a well needed boost to the company's profile, as well as attracting day trippers that were lost when Hoverspeed ended its SuperSeaCat service in 2004.
Dieppe Maritime station (French: Gare Maritime de Dieppe) was a railway station in the town of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and was built by CF de l'Ouest in 1874. The station was the station for passengers from Paris to Newhaven, by steamers and then ferries. Steam ships began crossing the English Channel in 1816 and linked Dieppe to Brighton.
Côte d'Albâtre in Le Havre A former ferry, shown as M/S Norman Voyager now Brittany Ferries M/S Etretat. DFDS Seaways France, trading as DFDS Seaways, and formerly known as New Channel Company A/S, is the trading name of the ferry services across the Dover Strait and English Channel operated by DFDS Seaways and formerly operated by LD Lines.
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway operated a number of cross channel ferry services, between its ports of Shoreham, Newhaven and Littlehampton to Dieppe, Honfleur, and Jersey. The profitable Newhaven-Dieppe service was operated in conjunction with the French Western Railway ( Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest ).
Roll-on/roll-off ferry: 2005: 2006: Dieppe–Newhaven: 18,564 GT France: 9320128 MS Seven Sisters: Roll-on/roll-off ferry: 2006: 2006: Dieppe–Newhaven: 18,564 GT France: 9320130 DFDS / FRS Iberia Maroc HSC Ceuta Jet: High-speed craft Ferry: 1998 1998 Tarifa - Tanger Ville: 2,273 GT Cyprus: 9174323 HSC Levante Jet: High-speed craft Ferry: 2015 ...
313213 at Newhaven Town with a Southern service bound for Brighton. Newhaven Town railway station is the main station serving Newhaven, East Sussex, England, the other being Newhaven Harbour. A third station, Newhaven Marine, formally closed in October 2020, [1] but had not had a train service since 2006.
There was a short-lived catamaran ferry in the 1990s to Fécamp in Normandy across the Channel. [22] A daily ferry service to Dieppe by DFDS Seaways serves the port of Newhaven. [23] Volk's Electric Railway opened the "Daddy Long-Legs" railway (a train above the sea) in 1896, but it was abandoned due to its vulnerability to the sea in the early ...