London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

1872-80.

1873-87.

1882-91.

1889.

1893.

April 1893.

Latest locomotive. Picture published in 1894.

1901.

1903. Balham to Croydon Widening.

1903. New bridges.

1905. No. 1 built by Beyer, Peacock and Co.

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Atlantic Type Locomotive. 1906.

July 1908.

1909.

1909. Electric train.

1909. First-class smoking department.

1909. Third-class carriage.

1909. 'Grosvenor', one of the coaches of the Southern Belle Express.

1909. 'Alberta', one of the cars interiors of the coach 'Grosvenor'.

1909. Motor train on the Epson Down branch.

August 1911.

September 1913.

1914.

1915.

May 1917.

January 1918.

January 1918.

1918.

January 1918.

February 1918.

1921.

1963.

1964.

of London Bridge Railway Station, London.

See Brighton Works

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SC Railway) (commonly known as "The Brighton line"), was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1923.

Its territory formed a rough triangle, with London at its apex and practically the whole coastline of Sussex as its base. It was bounded on its western side by the lines of the London and South Western Railway; on its eastern by the South Eastern Railway. It supplied the most direct routes to the South Coast seaside resorts of Brighton, Eastbourne and Worthing among many others. At the London end was a complicated suburban and outer-suburban network of lines.

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) was formed by Act of Parliament on 27 July 1846, through the amalgamation of a number of pre-existing railway companies.

These were:

• London and Croydon Railway (L&CR) created in 1836 and opened in 1839.
• London and Brighton Railway (L&BR) created in 1837 and opened in 1841.
• Brighton and Chichester Railway created in 1844 and opened in stages between November 1845 and June 1846, with an extension to Havant and Portsmouth under construction.
• Brighton Lewes and Hastings Railway, created February 1844, opened in June 1846.
• Croydon and Epsom Railway, created in July 1844, but under construction.

1846 The company was incorporated.

1875 See 1875 Number of Locomotives, The Portsmouth Waterside Extension Railway..

1888 See Locomotive Stock June 1888

Locomotive Superintendents

• John Chester Craven (1847-1870)
• William Stroudley (1870–1889)
• Robert John Billinton (1890–1904)
• Douglas Earle Marsh (1905–1911)
• Lawson Butzkopfski Billinton (1911–1922)

1908 The company owns 431 miles of road, and jointly with others 38 miles more.

1920 Article on their Brighton and Lancing Works in War Time in The Engineer.

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