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Brighton Line, The By John Eddolls Hard cover 1983 Victoria London Bridge
The Brighton Line By John Eddolls Hard cover 1983 48 Pages
The Brighton Line - taken in its broadest sense to cover the routes from Victoria and London Bridge to Brighton, with the allied services to neighbouring South Coast resorts -is one of immense contrasts. It was built as a main line to link London with what had become a fashionable resort stemming from Regency years. In its 50 or so miles it had major tunnels through the North and South Downs and an impressive viaduct across the broad Ouse valley.
By the turn of the century its express trains were elegant, with Pullman cars on most. It was the setting for the first railway electric lighting experiments, it had some of the first buffet cars, and corridors on its all-Pullman trains. In the 1930s it became the first long distance electrified line in Britain. Today it has lost that elegance and with the development of dormitory suburbs right down to the coast it is now firmly part of the London outer suburban network.
Chapters follow the path of the railway, and detail both local and railway history, and pinpoint major places of interest; another examines the various types of electric stock and diesel locomotives to be seen in daily use on this line. Finally the book looks forward to the expected improvement in schedules upon the completion of the massive resignalling scheme in 1987, for this, one of the busiest and important railway routes in the world.
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