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id="toc-New_lines_in_Surrey" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_lines_in_Surrey"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>New lines in Surrey</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_lines_in_Surrey-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Newhaven_Harbour" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Newhaven_Harbour"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Newhaven Harbour</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Newhaven_Harbour-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Growth_of_the_London_suburbs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Growth_of_the_London_suburbs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Growth of the London suburbs</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Growth_of_the_London_suburbs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Deterioration_of_relations_with_the_SER" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Deterioration_of_relations_with_the_SER"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Deterioration of relations with the SER</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Deterioration_of_relations_with_the_SER-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1867_financial_crisis_and_its_impact" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1867_financial_crisis_and_its_impact"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>1867 financial crisis and its impact</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1867_financial_crisis_and_its_impact-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Later_19th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Later_19th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Later 19th century</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Later_19th_century-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Later 19th century subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Later_19th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-New_routes_and_station_improvements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_routes_and_station_improvements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>New routes and station improvements</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_routes_and_station_improvements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Congestion_and_slow_trains" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Congestion_and_slow_trains"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Congestion and slow trains</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Congestion_and_slow_trains-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Quarry_line" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quarry_line"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1</span> <span>Quarry line</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quarry_line-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-20th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#20th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>20th century</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-20th_century-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle 20th century subsection</span> </button> 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id="toc-LB&SCR_at_Grouping-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Train_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Train_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Train services</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Train_services-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Train services subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Train_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Express_passenger_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Express_passenger_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Express passenger services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Express_passenger_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Stopping_trains" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Stopping_trains"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Stopping trains</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Stopping_trains-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Slip_coaches" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Slip_coaches"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Slip coaches</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Slip_coaches-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-London_suburban_traffic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#London_suburban_traffic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>London suburban traffic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-London_suburban_traffic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Excursion_and_holiday_traffic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Excursion_and_holiday_traffic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>Excursion and holiday traffic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Excursion_and_holiday_traffic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rail_motor_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rail_motor_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.6</span> <span>Rail motor services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rail_motor_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Freight_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Freight_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.7</span> <span>Freight services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Freight_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Electrification" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Electrification"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Electrification</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Electrification-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Accidents_and_signalling_control" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Accidents_and_signalling_control"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Accidents and signalling control</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Accidents_and_signalling_control-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Accidents and signalling control subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Accidents_and_signalling_control-sublist" 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<a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wagons"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.4</span> <span>Wagons</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wagons-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Liveries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Liveries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.5</span> <span>Liveries</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Liveries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ferry_services_and_ships" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ferry_services_and_ships"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Ferry services and ships</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ferry_services_and_ships-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Structures,_buildings_and_civil_engineering" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Structures,_buildings_and_civil_engineering"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Structures, buildings and civil engineering</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Structures,_buildings_and_civil_engineering-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Structures, buildings and civil engineering subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Structures,_buildings_and_civil_engineering-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Stations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Stations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>Stations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Stations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Workshops_and_motive_power_depots" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Workshops_and_motive_power_depots"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.2</span> <span>Workshops and motive power depots</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Workshops_and_motive_power_depots-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hotels" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hotels"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.3</span> <span>Hotels</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hotels-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_LB&SCR_as_an_investment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_LB&SCR_as_an_investment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>The LB&SCR as an investment</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_LB&SCR_as_an_investment-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_people" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_people"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>Notable people</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Notable people subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Chairmen_of_the_board_of_directors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chairmen_of_the_board_of_directors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.1</span> <span>Chairmen of the board of directors</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chairmen_of_the_board_of_directors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Members_of_the_board_of_directors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Members_of_the_board_of_directors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.2</span> <span>Members of the board of directors</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Members_of_the_board_of_directors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Managers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Managers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.3</span> <span>Managers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Managers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Secretaries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Secretaries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.4</span> <span>Secretaries</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Secretaries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chief_engineers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a 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Brighton Railway</b> or <b>the Brighton</b>)) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922. Its territory formed a rough triangle, with London at its apex, practically the whole coastline of <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a> as its base, covering a large part of <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>. It was bounded on its western side by the <a href="/wiki/London_and_South_Western_Railway" title="London and South Western Railway">London and South Western Railway</a> (L&SWR), which provided an alternative route to <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a>. On its eastern side the LB&SCR was bounded by the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Railway_(England)" title="South Eastern Railway (England)">South Eastern Railway</a> (SER)—later one component of the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_and_Chatham_Railway" title="South Eastern and Chatham Railway">South Eastern and Chatham Railway</a> (SE&CR)—which provided an alternative route to <a href="/wiki/Bexhill-on-Sea" title="Bexhill-on-Sea">Bexhill</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Leonards-on-Sea" title="St Leonards-on-Sea">St Leonards-on-Sea</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hastings" title="Hastings">Hastings</a>. The LB&SCR had the most direct routes from London to the south coast <a href="/wiki/Seaside_resort" title="Seaside resort">seaside resorts</a> of <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne" title="Eastbourne">Eastbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Worthing" title="Worthing">Worthing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis" title="Bognor Regis">Bognor Regis</a>, and to the ports of <a href="/wiki/Newhaven,_East_Sussex" class="mw-redirect" title="Newhaven, East Sussex">Newhaven</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham-by-Sea</a>. It served the inland towns and cities of <a href="/wiki/Chichester" title="Chichester">Chichester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horsham" title="Horsham">Horsham</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lewes" title="Lewes">Lewes</a>, and jointly served <a href="/wiki/Croydon" title="Croydon">Croydon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tunbridge_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunbridge Wells">Tunbridge Wells</a> (preserved as the <a href="/wiki/Spa_Valley_Railway" title="Spa Valley Railway">Spa Valley Railway</a>), <a href="/wiki/Dorking" title="Dorking">Dorking</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford</a>. At the London end was a complicated suburban and outer-suburban network of lines emanating from <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_station" title="London Bridge station">London Bridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_station" title="London Victoria station">Victoria</a>, and shared interests in two cross-London lines. </p><p>The LB&SCR was formed by a merger of five companies in 1846, and merged with the L&SWR, the SE&CR and several minor railway companies in southern England under the <a href="/wiki/Railways_Act_1921" title="Railways Act 1921">Railways Act 1921</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Railway_(UK)" title="Southern Railway (UK)">Southern Railway</a> from 1 January 1923. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LBSCR_map_Victoria.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/LBSCR_map_Victoria.jpg/280px-LBSCR_map_Victoria.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="373" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/LBSCR_map_Victoria.jpg/420px-LBSCR_map_Victoria.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/LBSCR_map_Victoria.jpg/560px-LBSCR_map_Victoria.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>A map of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway at <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_station" title="London Victoria station">London Victoria station</a></figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_of_the_company">Origins of the company</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins of the company"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">United Kingdom legislation</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vevent mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size:100%"><span style="font-size:125%">London and Brighton Railway Act 1846</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;">Act of Parliament</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/140px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/210px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/280px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="1550" /></span></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Short_and_long_titles" title="Short and long titles">Long title</a></th><td class="infobox-data description">An Act to consolidate and unite the London and Brighton and the London and Croydon Railway Companies and the Undertakings belonging to them.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/9_%26_10_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="9 & 10 Vict.">9 & 10 Vict.</a> c. cclxxxii</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">27 July 1846</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) was formed by an <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Parliament_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Parliament (UK)">act of Parliament</a>, the <b><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238216509">.mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#b1d2ff}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}</style><span class="vanchor"><span id="London_and_Brighton_Railway_Act_1846"></span><span class="vanchor-text">London and Brighton Railway Act 1846</span></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/9_%26_10_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="9 & 10 Vict.">9 & 10 Vict.</a> c. cclxxxii), on 27 July, through the amalgamation of a number of railway companies: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/London_and_Croydon_Railway" title="London and Croydon Railway">London and Croydon Railway</a> (L&CR), created in 1836 and opened in 1839.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/London_and_Brighton_Railway" title="London and Brighton Railway">London and Brighton Railway</a> (L&BR), created in 1837 and opened in 1841.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Brighton_and_Chichester_Railway" title="Brighton and Chichester Railway">Brighton and Chichester Railway</a>, created in 1844 and opened in stages between November 1845 and June 1846, with an extension to <a href="/wiki/Havant" title="Havant">Havant</a> under construction at the time of amalgamation.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Brighton,_Lewes_and_Hastings_Railway" title="Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway">Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway</a>, created in February 1844, opened in June 1846.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Croydon_and_Epsom_Railway" title="Croydon and Epsom Railway">Croydon and Epsom Railway</a>, created in July 1844, under construction at the time of amalgamation.</li></ul> <p>Only the first two were independent operating railways: the Brighton and Chichester and the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings had been purchased by the L&BR in 1845,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Croydon and Epsom was largely owned by the L&CR.) </p><p>The amalgamation was brought about, against the wishes of the boards of directors of the companies, by shareholders in the L&CR and L&BR who were dissatisfied with the early returns from their investments.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The LB&SCR existed for 76 years until 31 December 1922, when it was wound up as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Railways_Act_1921" title="Railways Act 1921">Railways Act 1921</a> and merged with the <a href="/wiki/London_and_South_Western_Railway" title="London and South Western Railway">London and South Western Railway</a> and the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_and_Chatham_Railway" title="South Eastern and Chatham Railway">South Eastern and Chatham Railway</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Railway_(UK)" title="Southern Railway (UK)">Southern Railway</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_routes">Original routes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Original routes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>(Dates of opening from F. Burtt <i>The Locomotives of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway 1839–1903</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>At the time of its creation the LB&SCR had around 170 route miles (274 km) in existence or under construction, consisting of three main routes and a number of branches. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Brighton_Main_Line" title="Brighton Main Line">main line to Brighton</a> from London Bridge opened in 1841. The sections between Corbett's Lane (<a href="/wiki/New_Cross" title="New Cross">New Cross</a>) and <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Bridge railway station">London Bridge</a> and between Croydon and <a href="/wiki/Redhill_railway_station" title="Redhill railway station">Redhill</a> were shared with the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Railway_(England)" title="South Eastern Railway (England)">South Eastern Railway</a> (SER). There were two branch lines under construction at the time of the amalgamation: the <a href="/wiki/Sutton_%26_Mole_Valley_Lines" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutton & Mole Valley Lines">Sutton & Mole Valley Lines</a> from Croydon to <a href="/wiki/Epsom_railway_station" title="Epsom railway station">Epsom</a> (opened 10 May 1847), and the <a href="/wiki/Arun_Valley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Arun Valley Line">Arun Valley Line</a> from <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_railway_station" title="Three Bridges railway station">Three Bridges</a> to <a href="/wiki/Horsham_railway_station" title="Horsham railway station">Horsham</a> (opened 14 February 1848). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/West_Coastway_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="West Coastway Line">West Sussex coast line</a> originated with a branch line from Brighton to <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham</a>, opened 12 May 1840. This had been extended to <a href="/wiki/Chichester" title="Chichester">Chichester</a> by the time of the amalgamation, and a further extension to <a href="/wiki/Havant" title="Havant">Havant</a> was under construction (opened 15 March 1847), with the ultimate aim of extending the line to Portsmouth. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/East_Coastway_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="East Coastway Line">East Sussex coast line</a> from Brighton to <a href="/wiki/Lewes" title="Lewes">Lewes</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_Leonards-on-Sea" title="St Leonards-on-Sea">St Leonards-on-Sea</a>, with running powers over the SER to <a href="/wiki/Hastings" title="Hastings">Hastings</a>, opened 27 June 1846, one month before the amalgamation, with branches to <a href="/wiki/Seaford_Branch" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaford Branch">Newhaven</a> (opened 8 December 1847), <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne" title="Eastbourne">Eastbourne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hailsham" title="Hailsham">Hailsham</a> (opened 14 May 1849). A connecting spur from the Brighton main line at Keymer Junction near <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a> to the Brighton–Lewes line was under construction at the time of amalgamation, opening in October 1847. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross,_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross%2C_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg/250px-Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross%2C_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross%2C_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg/375px-Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross%2C_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross%2C_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg/500px-Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross%2C_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2868" data-file-height="1788" /></a><figcaption>A 1908 <a href="/wiki/Railway_Clearing_House" title="Railway Clearing House">Railway Clearing House</a> map of lines around Bricklayers Arms and London Bridge station, as well as surrounding lines. LB&SCR lines are shown in green.</figcaption></figure> <p>A short line from <a href="/wiki/New_Cross" title="New Cross">New Cross</a> to <a href="/wiki/Deptford_Wharf" title="Deptford Wharf">Deptford Wharf</a>, proposed by the L&CR, was approved in July 1846, shortly before amalgamation, but was not opened until 2 July 1849. The use of this line for passengers would have contravened the recently negotiated agreement with the SER that the LB&SCR would not operate lines to the east of its main line, and it was restricted to goods.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A short branch from this line to the nearby <a href="/wiki/Surrey_Commercial_Docks" title="Surrey Commercial Docks">Surrey Commercial Docks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rotherhithe" title="Rotherhithe">Rotherhithe</a> opened in July 1855.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="London_stations">London stations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: London stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main London terminus was the L&CR station at <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Bridge railway station">London Bridge</a>, built by the <a href="/wiki/London_and_Greenwich_Railway" title="London and Greenwich Railway">London and Greenwich Railway</a> (L&GR) in 1836, and exchanged for the original L&CR station in 1842. For the first few years of its existence, LB&SCR trains used the L&GR lines from Corbett's Lane into London, but by 1849 the <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_%E2%80%93_Greenwich_Railway_Viaduct" title="London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct">viaducts</a> had been widened sufficiently for its own tracks.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The LB&SCR inherited from the L&CR running powers to the smaller SER passenger terminus at <a href="/wiki/Bricklayers_Arms_railway_station" title="Bricklayers Arms railway station">Bricklayers Arms</a>. Poorly sited for passengers, it closed in 1852 and was converted into a goods station. </p><p>The LB&SCR owned three stations at Croydon, later <a href="/wiki/East_Croydon_station" title="East Croydon station">East Croydon</a> (former L&BR) <a href="/wiki/Central_Croydon_railway_station" title="Central Croydon railway station">Central Croydon</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Croydon_station" title="West Croydon station">West Croydon</a> (former L&CR). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Atmospheric_lines">Atmospheric lines</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Atmospheric lines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The L&CR had been partially operated by the <a href="/wiki/Atmospheric_railway" title="Atmospheric railway">atmospheric principle</a> between <a href="/wiki/Croydon" title="Croydon">Croydon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Forest_Hill_railway_station" title="Forest Hill railway station">Forest Hill</a>, as the first phase of a scheme to use this mode of operation between London and <a href="/wiki/Epsom" title="Epsom">Epsom</a>. However, following a number of technical problems, the LB&SCR abandoned atmospheric operation in May 1847. This enabled it to build its own lines into London Bridge, and have its own independent station there, by 1849. </p><p>The history of the LB&SCR can be studied in five distinct periods. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relations_with_neighbouring_railways,_and_the_beginnings_of_expansion_1846–1859"><span id="Relations_with_neighbouring_railways.2C_and_the_beginnings_of_expansion_1846.E2.80.931859"></span>Relations with neighbouring railways, and the beginnings of expansion 1846–1859</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Relations with neighbouring railways, and the beginnings of expansion 1846–1859"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The LB&SCR was formed at the same time as the bursting of the <a href="/wiki/Railway_mania" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway mania">railway mania</a> investment bubble, and so it found raising capital for expansion extremely difficult during the first years of its operation, other than to complete those projects that were already in hand. The L&BR had experienced difficult relations with the SER where the companies shared facilities, notably at <a href="/wiki/Redhill_railway_station" title="Redhill railway station">Redhill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hastings_railway_station" title="Hastings railway station">Hastings</a> and on the approaches to <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Bridge railway station">London Bridge</a>). In October 1849 the SER acquired the new Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway (RG&RR) <a href="/wiki/North_Downs_Line" title="North Downs Line">line</a>, which the LB&SCR regarded as a major incursion into its territory. However, the LB&SCR had one important playing card not available to the L&BR—control of the SER main line between New Cross and Croydon. In 1849 the LB&SCR appointed a new and capable chairman, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Laing_(science_writer)" title="Samuel Laing (science writer)">Samuel Laing</a>, who negotiated a formal agreement with the SER that would resolve their difficulties for the time being and would define the territories of the two railways. Under this agreement the LB&SCR would have free access to London Bridge, Bricklayers Arms station and goods yard, and Hastings. The SER would have free use of the New Cross to Croydon line, and receive revenues from passengers at intermediate stations, but would not make or work competing lines to Brighton, Horsham, Chichester or Portsmouth.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1847 the naval dockyard of <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a> was being approached by two equally indirect routes from London, both under construction: a L&SWR route via <a href="/wiki/Fareham_railway_station" title="Fareham railway station">Fareham</a> and the former Brighton and Chichester Railway route from <a href="/wiki/Havant_railway_station" title="Havant railway station">Havant</a>. The two companies entered into an agreement in that year to share a line from <a href="/wiki/Cosham_railway_station" title="Cosham railway station">Cosham</a> on the mainland to <a href="/wiki/Portsea_Island" title="Portsea Island">Portsea Island</a>, ending at the centre of <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_%26_Southsea_railway_station" title="Portsmouth & Southsea railway station">Portsmouth town</a>. Further progress towards the dockyard was prevented by <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_(United_Kingdom)" title="Admiralty (United Kingdom)">Admiralty</a> objections.<sup id="cite_ref-Turner29_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turner29-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR began its services between Chichester and Portsmouth, on 14 June 1847, and the L&SWR from Fareham in October 1848. </p><p>In 1853 the <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Direct_line" title="Portsmouth Direct line">Direct Portsmouth Railway</a> gained parliamentary authority to build a line from <a href="/wiki/Godalming_railway_station" title="Godalming railway station">Godalming</a> to Havant with the intention of the company selling itself either to the L&SWR or the LB&SCR. This scheme would provide a far more direct route to Portsmouth but involved sharing the LB&SCR tracks for the five miles (8 km) between Havant and the joint line to Portsea.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR objected to the scheme but the L&SWR negotiated with the new company and in December 1858 sought to operate a train over the new route. The LB&SCR attempted to prevent the use of its tracks and the so-called <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Direct_line#The_battle_of_Havant" title="Portsmouth Direct line">'battle of Havant'</a> ensued. The matter was eventually resolved in the courts in August 1859, and relations between the railways were formalized in agreements of 1860 and 1862.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samuel Laing had also approved a modest degree of expansion elsewhere, most notably the acquisition of a <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_to_Tunbridge_Wells_Central_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line">branch line</a> from the main line at Three Bridges to the market town of <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a> in July 1855.<sup id="cite_ref-Turner29_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turner29-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crystal_Palace_Branch">Crystal Palace Branch</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Crystal Palace Branch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some of the directors of the LB&SCR were closely involved with the company that purchased <a href="/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace" title="The Crystal Palace">The Crystal Palace</a> after the completion of <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Exhibition">The Great Exhibition</a> in October 1851 and arranged for its removal to a site on <a href="/wiki/Sydenham_Hill" title="Sydenham Hill">Sydenham Hill</a>, close to the London to Brighton main line, which they purchased from <a href="/wiki/Leo_Schuster" title="Leo Schuster">Leo Schuster</a>. The Crystal Palace became a major tourist attraction and the LB&SCR built a branch line from <a href="/wiki/Sydenham_railway_station_(London)" title="Sydenham railway station (London)">Sydenham</a> to the new site, which was opened in June 1854, and enlarged London Bridge station to handle the additional traffic. The attraction proved to be an enormous success with 10,000 passengers conveyed daily to and from the new branch.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On one day in 1859, 112,000 people were conveyed to Crystal Place by train, 70,000 of which from London Bridge.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rapid_expansion_1856–1866"><span id="Rapid_expansion_1856.E2.80.931866"></span>Rapid expansion 1856–1866</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Rapid expansion 1856–1866"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Samuel Laing retired as chairman at the end of 1855 to pursue a political career, and was replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Merchant_banker" class="mw-redirect" title="Merchant banker">merchant banker</a> <a href="/wiki/Leo_Schuster" title="Leo Schuster">Leo Schuster</a>, who had previously sold his 300-acre (120 ha) estate on Sydenham Hill to the new Crystal Palace Company.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schuster instituted a policy of rapidly expanding the route mileage of the railway with new routes throughout south London, Sussex, and east Surrey. Some of these were financed and built by the LB&SCR, others by independent local companies set up with the intention of connecting a town to the railway network with the intention of sale or lease to the LB&SCR. Schuster accelerated the rate of mileage increase after appointing <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Banister" title="Frederick Banister">Frederick Banister</a> as Chief Engineer in 1860. As a result, a further 177 miles (285 km) were constructed or authorised between 1857 and 1865.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_End_of_London">West End of London</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: West End of London"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Croydon,_Norwood_%26_Woodside_RJD_53.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Croydon%2C_Norwood_%26_Woodside_RJD_53.jpg/250px-Croydon%2C_Norwood_%26_Woodside_RJD_53.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Croydon%2C_Norwood_%26_Woodside_RJD_53.jpg/375px-Croydon%2C_Norwood_%26_Woodside_RJD_53.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Croydon%2C_Norwood_%26_Woodside_RJD_53.jpg/500px-Croydon%2C_Norwood_%26_Woodside_RJD_53.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2861" data-file-height="1890" /></a><figcaption>A 1908 <a href="/wiki/Railway_Clearing_House" title="Railway Clearing House">Railway Clearing House</a> map of lines around the <a href="/wiki/Brighton_Main_Line" title="Brighton Main Line">Brighton Main Line</a> between South Croydon and Selhurst</figcaption></figure> <p>Schuster also encouraged an independent concern, the <a href="/wiki/West_End_of_London_and_Crystal_Palace_Railway" title="West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway">West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway</a> (WEL&CPR), to construct a new line extending in a wide arc round south London from the LB&SCR Crystal Palace branch to <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth" title="Wandsworth">Wandsworth</a> in 1856 and to <a href="/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea">Battersea</a> in 1858 with a temporary terminus at Battersea Pier. Shortly after this line was completed, the LB&SCR leased it from the WEL&CPR and incorporated it into its system. </p><p>Between 1858 and 1860 the LB&SCR was a major shareholder in the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Station_and_Pimlico_Railway" title="Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway">Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway</a> (VS&PR), together with the <a href="/wiki/East_Kent_Railway" title="East Kent Railway">East Kent Railway</a> (later the <a href="/wiki/London_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="London Chatham and Dover Railway">London Chatham and Dover Railway</a> (LC&DR)), the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a> (GWR) and the <a href="/wiki/London_%26_North_Western_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="London & North Western Railway">London & North Western Railway</a> (LNWR). This enterprise constructed the <a href="/wiki/Grosvenor_Bridge" title="Grosvenor Bridge">Grosvenor Bridge</a> over the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a> at Battersea and the line to the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Station_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria Station (London)">Victoria Station</a>, thereby creating a through (albeit roundabout) route from its main line near Croydon to a terminus in the West End of London. Following the acquisition of the WEL&CPR, a new 'cut-off' line between <a href="/wiki/Norwood_Junction_railway_station" title="Norwood Junction railway station">Windmill Bridge Junction (Norwood)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balham" title="Balham">Balham</a> was constructed during 1861 and 1862, which had the effect of reducing the distance from East Croydon to Victoria. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_lines_in_South_London">New lines in South London</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: New lines in South London"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The VS&PR line was also connected with another joint venture the <a href="/wiki/West_London_line" title="West London line">West London Extension Joint Railway</a>, jointly financed by the LB&SCR, L&SWR, GWR and the L&NWR, to permit goods transfers between the companies and cross-London passenger trains. This line was opened in 1863, and in the same year the LB&SCR and L&SWR jointly opened a large interchange station named <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction</a>. The LB&SCR also operated passenger trains between Clapham Junction and <a href="/wiki/Kensington_Olympia_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Kensington Olympia railway station">Addison Road</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clapham_Junction,_Stewarts_Lane,_Lavender_Hill_%26_Longhedge_RJD_17.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Clapham_Junction%2C_Stewarts_Lane%2C_Lavender_Hill_%26_Longhedge_RJD_17.jpg/250px-Clapham_Junction%2C_Stewarts_Lane%2C_Lavender_Hill_%26_Longhedge_RJD_17.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Clapham_Junction%2C_Stewarts_Lane%2C_Lavender_Hill_%26_Longhedge_RJD_17.jpg/375px-Clapham_Junction%2C_Stewarts_Lane%2C_Lavender_Hill_%26_Longhedge_RJD_17.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Clapham_Junction%2C_Stewarts_Lane%2C_Lavender_Hill_%26_Longhedge_RJD_17.jpg/500px-Clapham_Junction%2C_Stewarts_Lane%2C_Lavender_Hill_%26_Longhedge_RJD_17.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2733" data-file-height="1734" /></a><figcaption>A 1912 <a href="/wiki/Railway_Clearing_House" title="Railway Clearing House">Railway Clearing House</a> map of lines around Clapham Junction and the approaches to Victoria</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/West_Croydon_to_Wimbledon_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="West Croydon to Wimbledon Line">West Croydon to Wimbledon Line</a> was built as an independent railway joining the LB&SCR and the L&SWR main lines and opened in October 1855. For a few months it was operated under contract by its engineer <a href="/wiki/George_Parker_Bidder" class="mw-redirect" title="George Parker Bidder">George Parker Bidder</a> but in 1856 it was leased to the LB&SCR who purchased it in 1858.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same time, the LB&SCR was cooperating with the LC&DR to create the <a href="/wiki/South_London_line" title="South London line">South London line</a> between its terminuses at London Bridge and Victoria. The LC&DR was used from Victoria to <a href="/wiki/Brixton" title="Brixton">Brixton</a>, followed by new construction by the LB&SCR through <a href="/wiki/Denmark_Hill_railway_station" title="Denmark Hill railway station">Denmark Hill</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peckham_Rye_railway_station" title="Peckham Rye railway station">Peckham</a> to the main line to London Bridge at <a href="/wiki/South_Bermondsey_railway_station" title="South Bermondsey railway station">South Bermondsey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_lines_in_Sussex">New lines in Sussex</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: New lines in Sussex"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During 1858, a <a href="/wiki/Wealden_Line" title="Wealden Line">branch line</a> was built from Lewes to <a href="/wiki/Uckfield" title="Uckfield">Uckfield</a>, extended to Groombridge and Tunbridge Wells in 1868. In 1864 the Newhaven branch was extended to <a href="/wiki/Seaford,_East_Sussex" title="Seaford, East Sussex">Seaford</a>. The East Grinstead line was extended in 1866 to <a href="/wiki/Groombridge" title="Groombridge">Groombridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tunbridge_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunbridge Wells">Tunbridge Wells</a>. A large area in East Sussex between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne remained without railways, and the LB&SCR was anxious in case the SER should venture into this territory. As a result, in 1864 it sought powers to build a line between these two towns. It also obtained powers for the <a href="/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Railway" title="Ouse Valley Railway">Ouse Valley Railway</a>, from the south of <a href="/wiki/Balcombe_railway_station" title="Balcombe railway station">Balcombe</a> and north of <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath_railway_station" title="Haywards Heath railway station">Haywards Heath</a> on the Brighton main line to Uckfield and <a href="/wiki/Hailsham" title="Hailsham">Hailsham</a>; an extension to St Leonards was also approved in May 1865. However, some work had been carried out by the end of 1866, but not completed. </p><p>In West Sussex the <a href="/wiki/Arun_Valley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Arun Valley Line">Horsham branch</a> was extended to <a href="/wiki/Pulborough" title="Pulborough">Pulborough</a> and <a href="/wiki/Petworth" title="Petworth">Petworth</a> in 1859. In 1861 a line was built from near Horsham to <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham</a>, providing a direct link to Brighton. Branches were built from the West Sussex coast line to <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a> in 1863, to connect with a new cross-channel ferry service, to <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis" title="Bognor Regis">Bognor Regis</a> in 1864, and to <a href="/wiki/Hayling_Island" title="Hayling Island">Hayling Island</a> in 1867.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The line from Havant to Hayling had been built by the <a href="/wiki/Hayling_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Hayling Railway">Hayling Railway</a>, but it was leased to the LB&SCR in 1874.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAwdry1990187_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAwdry1990187-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the 1862 agreement with the L&SWR, a line was built from near Pulborough to a junction with the <a href="/wiki/West_Coastway_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="West Coastway Line">West Sussex coast line</a> near <a href="/wiki/Ford_railway_station" title="Ford railway station">Ford</a> in 1863. This provided a shorter LB&SCR route from London to Portsmouth via Three Bridges and Horsham.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_lines_in_Surrey">New lines in Surrey</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: New lines in Surrey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Sutton_%26_Mole_Valley_Lines" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutton & Mole Valley Lines">Epsom and Leatherhead Railway</a> was an independent line from the L&SW main line at Wimbledon through Epsom and <a href="/wiki/Leatherhead" title="Leatherhead">Leatherhead</a> towards <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford</a>. The LB&SCR entered into an agreement to share its station at Epsom and to use the line as far as Leatherhead. The line opened in August 1859 and in 1860 this portion was transferred to the joint ownership of the LB&SCR and the L&SWR. The LB&SCR then bought the Banstead and Epsom Downs Railway, which was building a <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Downs_Branch" title="Epsom Downs Branch">branch line</a> from <a href="/wiki/Sutton,_London" title="Sutton, London">Sutton</a> to <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Downs" title="Epsom Downs">Epsom Downs</a> for <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Downs_Racecourse" title="Epsom Downs Racecourse">Epsom Downs Racecourse</a>, opened in May 1865. </p><p>The LB&SCR wished to connect <a href="/wiki/Horsham" title="Horsham">Horsham</a> with significant towns in Surrey, and in 1865 it opened a line between <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_Hospital_railway_station" title="Christ's Hospital railway station">West Horsham</a> and the L&SWR near Guildford. It constructed a line from Leatherhead to <a href="/wiki/Dorking" title="Dorking">Dorking</a> in March 1867, continued to Horsham two months later. This enabled alternative LB&SCR routes from London to Brighton and the West Sussex coast and further reduced the distance of its route from London to Portsmouth. </p><p>The LB&SCR supported the independent <a href="/wiki/Surrey_and_Sussex_Junction_Railway" title="Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway">Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway</a>, which obtained powers in July 1865 to build a line from Croydon to Tunbridge Wells via <a href="/wiki/Oxted" title="Oxted">Oxted</a>, to be worked by the LB&SCR. The involvement of LB&SCR directors in this scheme was interpreted by the SER as a breach of the 1849 agreement, and in retaliation the SER and LC&DR obtained an act of Parliament<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (September 2024)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> approval to build a rival 'London, Lewes and Brighton Railway', which would undermine the profitable LB&SCR monopoly to that town.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Neither scheme was proceeded with. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newhaven_Harbour">Newhaven Harbour</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Newhaven Harbour"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the opening of the branch from <a href="/wiki/Lewes" title="Lewes">Lewes</a> to <a href="/wiki/Newhaven,_East_Sussex#Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Newhaven, East Sussex">Newhaven</a>, the LB&SCR sought to develop a shorter Continental route from London to Paris via <a href="/wiki/Dieppe,_Seine-Maritime" class="mw-redirect" title="Dieppe, Seine-Maritime">Dieppe</a>, in competition with the SER routes from <a href="/wiki/Dover" title="Dover">Dover</a> to <a href="/wiki/Calais" title="Calais">Calais</a> and <a href="/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a> to <a href="/wiki/Boulogne" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulogne">Boulogne</a>. The LB&SCR built its wharf and warehousing facilities on the east side of the river, with <a href="/wiki/Newhaven_harbour_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Newhaven harbour railway station">Newhaven Harbour station</a>. It funded the dredging of the channel and other improvements to the harbour between 1850 and 1878, to enable it to be used by larger cross-channel ferries,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1863 the LB&SCR and the <a href="/wiki/Chemins_de_Fer_de_l%27Ouest" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest">Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest</a> introduced the Newhaven–Dieppe passenger service.<sup id="cite_ref-Jordan_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jordan-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1878 the railway formed and underwrote the Newhaven Harbour Company and thereafter delegated responsibility for its operation to it.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Growth_of_the_London_suburbs">Growth of the London suburbs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Growth of the London suburbs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Streatham_%26_Tulse_Hill_Hastings_%26_St_Leonards_RJD_100.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Streatham_%26_Tulse_Hill_Hastings_%26_St_Leonards_RJD_100.jpg/250px-Streatham_%26_Tulse_Hill_Hastings_%26_St_Leonards_RJD_100.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Streatham_%26_Tulse_Hill_Hastings_%26_St_Leonards_RJD_100.jpg/375px-Streatham_%26_Tulse_Hill_Hastings_%26_St_Leonards_RJD_100.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Streatham_%26_Tulse_Hill_Hastings_%26_St_Leonards_RJD_100.jpg/500px-Streatham_%26_Tulse_Hill_Hastings_%26_St_Leonards_RJD_100.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="1760" /></a><figcaption>A 1908 <a href="/wiki/Railway_Clearing_House" title="Railway Clearing House">Railway Clearing House</a> map, showing the Sutton & Mole Valley Lines though South London</figcaption></figure> <p>Largely as a result of the railway, the rural area between <a href="/wiki/New_Cross" title="New Cross">New Cross</a> and Croydon rapidly became built up, and the population of Croydon increased 14-fold, from 16,700 to 233,000, during the LB&SCR's existence. During the 1860s the LB&SCR began to develop new traffic from the growing number of middle-class <a href="/wiki/Commuters" class="mw-redirect" title="Commuters">commuters</a> who were beginning to live in the south London suburbs and working in central London. </p><p>As part of its suburban expansion, the LB&SCR built a <a href="/wiki/Sutton_%26_Mole_Valley_Lines" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutton & Mole Valley Lines">line</a> from <a href="/wiki/Peckham_Rye_railway_station" title="Peckham Rye railway station">Peckham Rye</a> roughly parallel to the main line, through <a href="/wiki/East_Dulwich_railway_station" title="East Dulwich railway station">East Dulwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tulse_Hill_railway_station" title="Tulse Hill railway station">Tulse Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Streatham_railway_station" title="Streatham railway station">Streatham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mitcham_railway_station,_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitcham railway station, London">Mitcham</a> to <a href="/wiki/Sutton_railway_station_(London)" title="Sutton railway station (London)">Sutton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Downs_railway_station" title="Epsom Downs railway station">Epsom Downs</a>, which opened in October 1868. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Deterioration_of_relations_with_the_SER">Deterioration of relations with the SER</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Deterioration of relations with the SER"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Relations between the LB&SCR and the SER and the interpretation of the 1848 agreement continued to be difficult throughout the 1850s and 1860s. They reached a low point in 1863 when the SER produced a report for its shareholders outlining a long list of the difficulties between the two companies, and the reasons why they considered that the LB&SCR had broken the 1848 agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main areas of disagreement listed were at <a href="/wiki/Hastings_railway_station" title="Hastings railway station">Hastings</a>, allowing the LC&DR to use its lines to <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Victoria railway station">Victoria</a>, a proposed LB&SCR branch to <a href="/wiki/Bromley" title="Bromley">Bromley</a>, the new LB&SCR line to <a href="/wiki/Dorking" title="Dorking">Dorking</a>, LB&SCR opposition to the SER attempts at building a line to the <a href="/wiki/West_End_of_London" title="West End of London">west end</a>, the LB&SCR agreement to let the LC&DR use its goods facilities at <a href="/wiki/Bricklayers_Arms_railway_station" title="Bricklayers Arms railway station">Bricklayers Arms</a>, and the perennial problem of the shared main line between <a href="/wiki/Redhill,_Surrey" title="Redhill, Surrey">Redhill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Croydon" title="Croydon">Croydon</a>. </p><p>The most flagrant example of the lack of cooperation between the two companies, however, was with respect to the independent <a href="/wiki/Caterham_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Caterham Line">Caterham Railway</a>, which ran in South Eastern territory, but joined the Brighton mainline at the LB&SCR <a href="/wiki/Purley_railway_station" title="Purley railway station">Godstone Road</a> station (later renamed Caterham Junction). Both companies objected to the other operating the branch line, which resulted in a delay of a year between the completion of the work and the opening of the line in 1856. Their failure to agree on such matters as through ticketing quickly drove the independent company into bankruptcy. Even after the SER took over running of the branch in 1859, the squabbling and bloody mindedness continued to the great detriment of the passengers. Eventually the matters reached the leader columns of <i>The Times</i> newspaper in 1862 before the companies would negotiate with one another.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The chronic congestion over the shared line between <a href="/wiki/East_Croydon_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="East Croydon railway station">East Croydon railway station</a> and <a href="/wiki/Redhill_railway_station" title="Redhill railway station">Redhill</a> eased after 1 May 1868 when the route ceased to be on the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Main_Line" title="South Eastern Main Line">South Eastern Main Line</a> to Dover following the opening of the 'Sevenoaks cut off' line between <a href="/wiki/St_Johns_railway_station" title="St Johns railway station">St Johns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tonbridge_railway_station" title="Tonbridge railway station">Tonbridge railway station</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A ten-year agreement between the SER and the LB&SCR over the use of the station and lines to Coulsdon was signed 1 February 1869 and renewed ten years later.<sup id="cite_ref-Turner112_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turner112-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1867_financial_crisis_and_its_impact">1867 financial crisis and its impact</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 1867 financial crisis and its impact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Havant_%26_Portsmouth_RJD_11.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Havant_%26_Portsmouth_RJD_11.jpg/250px-Havant_%26_Portsmouth_RJD_11.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Havant_%26_Portsmouth_RJD_11.jpg/375px-Havant_%26_Portsmouth_RJD_11.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Havant_%26_Portsmouth_RJD_11.jpg/500px-Havant_%26_Portsmouth_RJD_11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2861" data-file-height="1890" /></a><figcaption>A 1910 <a href="/wiki/Railway_Clearing_House" title="Railway Clearing House">Railway Clearing House</a> map, showing part of the lines around Portsmouth</figcaption></figure> <p>The collapse of the bankers <a href="/wiki/Overend,_Gurney_and_Company" title="Overend, Gurney and Company">Overend, Gurney and Company</a> in 1866 and the financial crisis the following year brought the LB&SCR to the brink of bankruptcy.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A special meeting of shareholders was adjourned, and the powers of the board of directors were suspended pending receipt of a report into the financial affairs of the company and its prospects.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The report made clear that the LB&SCR had overextended itself with large capital projects sustained by profits from passengers, which suddenly declined as a result of the crisis. Several country lines were losing money – most notably between Horsham and Guildford, East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells, and Banstead and Epsom – and the LB&SCR was committed to building or acquiring others with equally poor prospects.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The report was extremely critical of the policies of Schuster and the company secretary, Frederick Slight, both of whom resigned. It did however point out that these lines had been built or acquired as a means for preventing competition from neighbouring railways. The committee recommended the abandonment of several projects, and that the LB&SCR should enter into a working agreement with the SER. </p><p>The new board of directors accepted many of these recommendations, and they managed to persuade <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Laing_(science_writer)" title="Samuel Laing (science writer)">Samuel Laing</a> to return as chairman. It was through his business acumen and that of the new secretary and general manager J. P. Knight that the LB&SCR gradually recovered its financial health during the early 1870s.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result, all construction of lines was suspended. Three important projects then under construction were abandoned: the <a href="/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Railway" title="Ouse Valley Railway">Ouse Valley Railway</a>, its extension to St Leonards, and the <a href="/wiki/Oxted_line" title="Oxted line">Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Cuckoo_Line" title="Cuckoo Line">line</a> between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne was shelved until the financial situation improved.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the next decade, projects were limited to additional spurs or junctions in London and Brighton to enhance the operation of the network, or small-scale ventures in conjunction with other railway companies. The latter included a short line from <a href="/wiki/Streatham" title="Streatham">Streatham</a> through <a href="/wiki/Tooting" title="Tooting">Tooting</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon,_London" title="Wimbledon, London">Wimbledon</a> in 1868, and a connection from <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_%26_Southsea_railway_station" title="Portsmouth & Southsea railway station">Portsmouth Town</a> to <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Harbour_railway_station" title="Portsmouth Harbour railway station">Portsmouth Harbour</a> in 1876, both jointly with the L&SWR. </p><p>The proposed 'working cooperation' with the SER never took effect but remained under active consideration by both parties, and later involved the LC&DR.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was not until 1875 that the idea was dropped, after the SER pulled out of negotiations due to the conditions imposed by Parliament on the proposed merger. The LB&SCR continued as an independent railway but the SER and LCDR eventually formed a working relationship in 1899 with the formation of the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_and_Chatham_Railway" title="South Eastern and Chatham Railway">South Eastern and Chatham Railway</a>. </p><p>One new line to which the LB&SCR was committed was the <a href="/wiki/East_London_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="East London Railway">East London Railway</a>, a consortium of six railway companies: the Great Eastern Railway (GER); the LB&SCR; the LC&DR; the SER; the Metropolitan Railway; and the District Railway. It sought to reuse the <a href="/wiki/Thames_Tunnel" title="Thames Tunnel">Thames Tunnel</a>, built by <a href="/wiki/Marc_Brunel" class="mw-redirect" title="Marc Brunel">Marc</a> and <a href="/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel" title="Isambard Kingdom Brunel">Isambard Kingdom Brunel</a> between 1825 and 1843. A line was therefore built between the LB&SCR at <a href="/wiki/New_Cross" title="New Cross">New Cross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wapping" title="Wapping">Wapping</a> with a link to the GER main line, in March 1869. It was primarily intended for goods transfer between these railways, but the LB&SCR introduced a passenger service between <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Street_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Liverpool Street Station">Liverpool Street Station</a> and Croydon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_19th_century">Later 19th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Later 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the mid-1870s the LB&SCR had recovered its financial stability through a policy of encouraging the more intensive use of lines and reducing operating costs. Between 1870 and 1889 annual revenue rose from £1.3 million to £2.4 million, whilst its operating costs rose from £650,000 to just over £1 million.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR was able to embark upon new railway building and improvements to infrastructure. Some new lines passed through sparsely populated areas and merely provided shorter connections to towns that were already on the railway network, and so were unlikely to be profitable, but the LB&SCR found itself under pressure from local communities wanting a rail connection, and was frightened that they would otherwise be developed by rivals. </p><p>The main reason for the financial recovery lay in the exploitation of London suburban traffic. By the late 1880s the LB&SCR had developed the largest suburban network of any British railway, with 68 route miles (109 km) in the suburbs in addition to its main lines, in three routes between London Bridge and Victoria:<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/South_London_line" title="South London line">South London line</a>, the outer South London Line and the <a href="/wiki/Crystal_Palace_railway_station" title="Crystal Palace railway station">Crystal Palace lines</a>, and the LB&SCR was earning more from season tickets than any other British railway. Thus an official return showed that the railway had operated more than 100,000 passenger trains from April to June 1889, more than any other company operating only in southern England.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_routes_and_station_improvements">New routes and station improvements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: New routes and station improvements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The scheme to link Eastbourne with Tunbridge Wells was revived in April 1879 with the opening of a line connecting the Hailsham branch to <a href="/wiki/Heathfield_(Sussex)_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Heathfield (Sussex) railway station">Heathfield</a>, completed the following September from Heathfield to <a href="/wiki/Eridge_railway_station" title="Eridge railway station">Eridge</a>, and later known as the <a href="/wiki/Cuckoo_Line" title="Cuckoo Line">Cuckoo Line</a>. </p><p>In 1877 authority was granted to the Lewes and East Grinstead Railway (L&EGR), roughly parallel to the 'Cuckoo Line',<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sponsored by local landowners, including the Earl of Sheffield, and including a branch from <a href="/wiki/Horsted_Keynes" title="Horsted Keynes">Horsted Keynes</a> to <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a> on the Brighton main line. A year later an act of 1878 enabled the LB&SCR to acquire and operate lines, opened in August 1882 and September 1883. The East Grinstead–Lewes line subsequently became known as the 'Bluebell line' and, following its closure in 1958, the section between <a href="/wiki/Horsted_Keynes_railway_station" title="Horsted Keynes railway station">Horsted Keynes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Park_railway_station" title="Sheffield Park railway station">Sheffield Park</a> was taken over by the <a href="/wiki/Bluebell_Railway" title="Bluebell Railway">Bluebell Railway</a> Preservation Society. </p><p>The LB&SCR in West Sussex was largely complete by 1870 except for a link between <a href="/wiki/Midhurst" title="Midhurst">Midhurst</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chichester" title="Chichester">Chichester</a>, delayed by the financial crisis of 1867; this was revived and opened in 1881. Minor improvements around <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a> were made, and a branch to <a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_Dyke,_Sussex" title="Devil's Dyke, Sussex">Devil's Dyke</a> opened in 1887, built by and owned by an independent company but operated by the LB&SCR. In Hampshire the LB&SCR leased the <a href="/wiki/Hayling_Island_branch_line" title="Hayling Island branch line">Hayling Island branch line</a> from 1874,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> opened in 1865 as an independent concern.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR and the L&SWR jointly built a <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">1<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span>-mile (2 km) <a href="/wiki/Southsea_Railway" title="Southsea Railway">branch</a> from a new station on their existing joint line at <a href="/wiki/Fratton_railway_station" title="Fratton railway station">Fratton</a> to <a href="/wiki/East_Southsea_railway_station" title="East Southsea railway station">East Southsea</a> in 1887, but early in the 20th century had to compete with a tramway, and it was closed at the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the proposed Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway had been abandoned in 1867, there remained a demand from Croydon to towns such as East Grinstead, Tunbridge Wells and the East Sussex coast. The SER was looking for a relief route in the same general direction for its <a href="/wiki/Tonbridge_railway_station" title="Tonbridge railway station">Tonbridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hastings_railway_station" title="Hastings railway station">Hastings</a> services, and the two railways collaborated in a joint line between <a href="/wiki/South_Croydon_railway_station" title="South Croydon railway station">South Croydon</a>, on the main Brighton line, and <a href="/wiki/Oxted_railway_station" title="Oxted railway station">Oxted</a>. Beyond Oxted, the LB&SCR would build its own lines to link with the Bluebell line at East Grinstead and its line to Tunbridge Wells. SER trains would join the line between Redhill and Tonbridge. Authority was granted in 1878 and they opened in 1884. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton railway station</a> was rebuilt and extended in 1882–83 with a new single roof, and <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne_railway_station" title="Eastbourne railway station">Eastbourne</a> was rebuilt in 1886 to cope with additional traffic. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Purley,_Red_Hill_%26_Stoats_Next_RJD_130.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Purley%2C_Red_Hill_%26_Stoats_Next_RJD_130.jpg/150px-Purley%2C_Red_Hill_%26_Stoats_Next_RJD_130.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Purley%2C_Red_Hill_%26_Stoats_Next_RJD_130.jpg/225px-Purley%2C_Red_Hill_%26_Stoats_Next_RJD_130.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Purley%2C_Red_Hill_%26_Stoats_Next_RJD_130.jpg/300px-Purley%2C_Red_Hill_%26_Stoats_Next_RJD_130.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1878" data-file-height="2838" /></a><figcaption>1905 Map showing the LB&SCR "Quarry line" and the original SER line</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Congestion_and_slow_trains">Congestion and slow trains</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Congestion and slow trains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the steady growth of traffic in the South London suburbs during the 1880s and early 1890s, the LB&SCR was the subject of press criticism for poor timekeeping and slow trains,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although it was never subjected to the levels of press and public obloquy accorded to the SER. Two of the reasons for poor timekeeping were the volume of traffic generated and the complexity of the LB&SCR network north of <a href="/wiki/Redhill_railway_station" title="Redhill railway station">Redhill</a> with large numbers of junctions and signals.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A further complication was that both the LB&SCR and the SER shared the 11 miles (18 km) of track between Redhill and <a href="/wiki/East_Croydon_station" title="East Croydon station">East Croydon</a>. This part of the line was owned by the SER, which (according to Acworth) gave its trains precedence through the junctions at Redhill,<sup id="cite_ref-Acworth97_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Acworth97-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the LB&SCR paid an annual fee of £14,000 for its use. Relations with the SER began to deteriorate once more and eventually both companies appointed <a href="/wiki/Henry_Oakley" title="Henry Oakley">Henry Oakley</a> general manager of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Great_Britain)" title="Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)">Great Northern Railway</a> as an independent assessor in 1889. Oakley supported the LB&SCR right to use the line but increased the annual payment to £20,000.<sup id="cite_ref-Turner112_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turner112-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However this did not solve the problem and an 1896 study of LB&SCR passenger services, by J. Pearson Pattinson described the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">8<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span> miles (13.3 km) of shared track between Redhill and Stoats Nest (Coulsdon) as being 'in a state of the utmost congestion, and detentions of the Brighton expresses, blocked by South Eastern stopping trains, are as constant as irritating.'<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quarry_line">Quarry line</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Quarry line"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ultimately the only solution was for the LB&SCR to build its own line between <a href="/wiki/Coulsdon_North_railway_station" title="Coulsdon North railway station">Coulsdon North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Earlswood_(Surrey)_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Earlswood (Surrey) railway station">Earlswood</a>, bypassing Redhill, which became known as the 'Quarry line'. Plans were drawn up by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Langbridge_Morgan_(engineer)" title="Charles Langbridge Morgan (engineer)">Charles L. Morgan</a>, the Chief Engineer.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Authority was granted by Parliament in July 1896, and construction took place in 1898–99.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The line involved substantial civil engineering works including the excavation of new tunnels at <a href="/wiki/Merstham_tunnels" title="Merstham tunnels">Merstham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Redhill_tunnel_(Surrey)" class="mw-redirect" title="Redhill tunnel (Surrey)">Redhill</a>, cuttings, embankments and a covered way at <a href="/wiki/Cane_Hill_Hospital" title="Cane Hill Hospital">Cane Hill Hospital</a>. The line opened on 8 November 1899 (1 April 1900 for passengers). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="20th_century">20th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During its last 20 years the LB&SCR opened no new lines, but invested in improving its main line and London terminals, together with the electrification of its London suburban services. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lbscr1922.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Lbscr1922.jpg/220px-Lbscr1922.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Lbscr1922.jpg/330px-Lbscr1922.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Lbscr1922.jpg/440px-Lbscr1922.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="656" /></a><figcaption>Sketch map of LB&SCR routes in 1922</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the completion of the <i>Quarry line</i>, the bottleneck on the heavily used <a href="/wiki/Brighton_Main_Line" title="Brighton Main Line">main line</a> moved further south. Plans were drawn up for the quadrupling throughout, but only the 16 miles (26 km) from Earlswood to <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_railway_station" title="Three Bridges railway station">Three Bridges</a> were completed, between 1906 and 1909. A fifth track was laid between Norwood Junction and <a href="/wiki/South_Croydon_railway_station" title="South Croydon railway station">South Croydon</a> in 1907–08. Extension beyond Three Bridges would have involved heavy engineering at <a href="/wiki/Balcombe_tunnel" title="Balcombe tunnel">Balcombe tunnel</a>, over the <a href="/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Viaduct" title="Ouse Valley Viaduct">Ouse Valley Viaduct</a> and through the South Downs. The required capital expenditure was diverted to extending the electrification programme. </p><p>Unlike other mainline railway companies, the LB&SCR had to share both its London termini with its rivals, <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Bridge railway station">London Bridge</a> with the SER and <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Victoria railway station">Victoria</a> with the LC&DR. The rapid increase in commuting towards the end of the 19th century created an urgent need to expand the cramped and limited facilities at Victoria. During the first decade of the new century the line between <a href="/wiki/Grosvenor_Bridge" title="Grosvenor Bridge">Grosvenor Bridge</a> and Victoria was widened and the station rebuilt on a much larger scale. A new turntable and locomotive servicing facilities enabled the use of more powerful locomotives. During the same period LB&SCR facilities at London Bridge were enlarged, but since the station had been rebuilt so many times it remained a 'sprawling confusion'.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Motive_power_shortage">Motive power shortage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Motive power shortage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Between 1905 and 1912 the LB&SCR suffered an increasingly serious motive power shortage due to the inability of <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_works" title="Brighton railway works">Brighton Works</a> to keep pace with the volume of repairs and new construction required. By 1910 30% of the locomotive stock was unusable due to delays and inefficiencies at the works,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leading to the sickness and retirement of the Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent <a href="/wiki/D._E._Marsh" title="D. E. Marsh">D. E. Marsh</a>. The problem was solved by the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Lancing_Carriage_Works" title="Lancing Carriage Works">Lancing Carriage Works</a> and the reorganisation of Brighton Works by Marsh's successor <a href="/wiki/L._B._Billinton" title="L. B. Billinton">L. B. Billinton</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_First_World_War">The First World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: The First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:London_Victoria_First_World_War_railway_war_memorial_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/London_Victoria_First_World_War_railway_war_memorial_4.jpg/150px-London_Victoria_First_World_War_railway_war_memorial_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/London_Victoria_First_World_War_railway_war_memorial_4.jpg/225px-London_Victoria_First_World_War_railway_war_memorial_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/London_Victoria_First_World_War_railway_war_memorial_4.jpg/300px-London_Victoria_First_World_War_railway_war_memorial_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3240" data-file-height="4320" /></a><figcaption>The LB&SCR War Memorial, London Victoria Station</figcaption></figure> <p>With other British railways the LB&SCR was brought under government control during the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>. Until then it had carried relatively little heavy goods, but this changed dramatically at the outbreak of war.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR was responsible for carrying the bulk of the <a href="/wiki/Materiel" title="Materiel">stores and munitions</a> delivered to the British troops on the continent, principally through its port of <a href="/wiki/Newhaven,_East_Sussex#Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Newhaven, East Sussex">Newhaven</a> This included nearly 7 million tons of goods, including 2.7 million tons of explosives. It necessitated an additional 53,376 goods trains over the four years of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-Pratt_1921,_pp._1038–39_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pratt_1921,_pp._1038–39-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Newhaven harbour also received casualties landing in hospital ships, with the railway providing ambulance trains.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were several army camps within the territory of the LB&SCR which therefore provided 27,366 troop trains.<sup id="cite_ref-Pratt_1921,_pp._1038–39_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pratt_1921,_pp._1038–39-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Army horses awaiting shipping to France were stabled at Farlington Racecourse.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the outbreak of hostilities the area surrounding Newhaven Port was requisitioned and the <a href="/wiki/Newhaven_Harbour_railway_station" title="Newhaven Harbour railway station">Harbour station</a> closed. From 22 September 1916 Newhaven became a special military area for handling Government traffic under the Defence of the Realm Regulations.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This additional traffic required substantial improvements to infrastructure, notably at Newhaven harbour, where additional warehousing, new sidings and signalling constructed and electric lighting was installed. When Newhaven became overwhelmed the tidal port of <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a> was rebuilt and pressed into service.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inland, a much enlarged goods <a href="/wiki/Classification_yard" title="Classification yard">marshalling yard</a> was established at Three Bridges, which was chosen as a nodal point for handling War traffic. At <a href="/wiki/Gatwick_Airport_railway_station" title="Gatwick Airport railway station">Gatwick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath_railway_station" title="Haywards Heath railway station">Haywards Heath</a>, passing loops were constructed so that the frequent passenger trains would not be impeded by slower goods trains and to hold munitions trains during air raids. Some munitions trains were routed to Newhaven via the <a href="/wiki/Steyning_Line" title="Steyning Line">Steyning Line</a> to Brighton to avoid congesting the part of the Brighton main line which had only two tracks. Between 1914 and 1918, 5,635 members of LB&SCR staff joined the forces, creating staff shortages at all levels (including the Chief Mechanical Engineer who was called up for service in Russia and Romania).<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This necessitated the employment of female labour in clerical grades and for carriage cleaning.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The railway erected a <a href="/wiki/London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_War_Memorial" title="London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial">War Memorial</a> at London Bridge in 1920 honouring the 532 staff who had lost their lives. Likewise, in April 1922, the last locomotive to be constructed by the company, <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_L_class" title="LB&SCR L class">4-6-4T 'L' Class</a> No. 333, was named 'Remembrance' and carried a memorial plaque.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LB&SCR_at_Grouping"><span id="LB.26SCR_at_Grouping"></span>LB&SCR at Grouping</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: LB&SCR at Grouping"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By 31 December 1922, when the LB&SCR ceased to have an independent existence, it had 457 miles (735 km) of route. Of these, 100 mi (161 km) was single track, 357 mi (575 km) double track, 47 mi (76 km) triple track, and 49 mi (79 km) four or more tracks. Sidings had a total length of 355 miles (571 km).<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Bonavia, 'the Brighton was a highly individual line in its strengths and weaknesses, it was to experience drastic changes under Southern [Railway] management which older members of the staff would not always accept gracefully.'<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Train_services">Train services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Train services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The LB&SCR was essentially a passenger-carrying concern, with goods and mineral traffic playing a limited role in its receipts. As originally envisaged the railway was a trunk route, conveying passengers (and to a lesser extent goods) between London, Croydon and the south coast, with relatively little traffic to and from stations in between. However, the railway's existence began to generate new goods and passenger traffic at towns and villages on or near the main line, such as <a href="/wiki/Reigate" title="Reigate">Reigate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a>. This also applied to <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> market towns such as <a href="/wiki/Lewes" title="Lewes">Lewes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horsham" title="Horsham">Horsham</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dorking" title="Dorking">Dorking</a> as soon as these were connected to the rail network. After 1870 the development of the London suburbs south of the Thames had a profound effect on the nature of the railway. The development of <a href="/wiki/Newhaven,_East_Sussex#Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Newhaven, East Sussex">Newhaven harbour</a> was also a stimulus to the development of both categories of traffic. </p><p>The speed and punctuality of many LB&SCR passenger services was the subject of widespread criticism in the technical and popular press during the 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was in part due in part to the complexity of the system between London and Croydon, with a large number of signals and junctions, the sharing of stretches of line with the SER, and the relatively short routes, which gave little opportunity to make up for lost time. The LB&SCR gradually began to rebuild its reputation during the 20th century through improvements to mainline infrastructure and electrification of suburban services. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Express_passenger_services">Express passenger services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Express passenger services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company had no long-distance express trains, with a maximum journey length of 75 miles (121 km). Nevertheless, frequent express passenger services ran to the most important coastal destinations from both London Bridge and Victoria. Season ticket revenue, particularly from Brighton to London, was the backbone of the LB&SCR's finances for most of the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The morning <a href="/wiki/Rush_hour" title="Rush hour">rush hour</a> business services were among "the heaviest express services in the world" in the 1880s, with loads of 360 tons.<sup id="cite_ref-Acworth97_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Acworth97-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Individual <a href="/wiki/Pullman_train_(UK)" title="Pullman train (UK)">Pullman</a> cars were introduced to Britain on the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Railway" title="Midland Railway">Midland Railway</a> in 1874, followed by the <a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Great_Britain)" title="Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)">Great Northern Railway</a> soon after and the LB&SCR in 1875.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR pioneered all-Pullman trains in England, the <i>Pullman Limited Express</i> on 5 December 1881. It consisted of four cars built at the Pullman Car Company workshops in <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a>, <i>Beatrice</i>, <i>Louise</i>, <i>Maud</i> and <i>Victoria</i>, the first electrically lit coaches on a British railway. The train made two down and two up trips per day, one each way on Sundays. It was renamed the <i>Brighton Pullman Limited</i> in 1887, and first-class carriages were attached. A new train was built in 1888: three Pullmans were shipped over in parts from the Pullman Palace Car Company in America, and assembled by the LB&SCR at Brighton. </p><p>The <i>Brighton Limited</i> was introduced on 2 October 1898. It ran only on Sundays, and not in July–September. It was timed to make the journey from Victoria in 60 minutes: "London to Brighton in one hour" was the advertisement used for the first time. On 21 December 1902 it made a record run of 54 minutes. It hit the headlines again when, faced with the threat of a competing electric railway being built from London to Brighton, it ran to Brighton in 48 minutes 41 seconds and the return to London in 50 minutes 21 seconds, matching the schedule put forward by the promoters of the electric line. <a href="/wiki/Southern_Belle_(LBSC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Belle (LBSC)">The <i>Southern Belle</i></a>, introduced 8 November 1908, was described as "the most luxurious train in the World." By 1910 two trips each way were running every day; later three were run on Sundays. Third-class Pullman cars began running on Sunday 12 September 1915 from Victoria to Brighton and <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne_railway_station" title="Eastbourne railway station">Eastbourne</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stopping_trains">Stopping trains</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Stopping trains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Slower passenger services between London and the south coast often divided at East Croydon to serve both the London termini, and combined there for down trains, so East Croydon had an important nodal function in the system.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After 1867, following the opening of the direct line to Horsham, Sutton acted as a similar node for passenger trains between London and Portsmouth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slip_coaches">Slip coaches</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Slip coaches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The LB&SCR appears to have invented the practice of <a href="/wiki/Slip_coach" title="Slip coach">slipping</a> coaches from the rear of express trains at intermediate stations for onward transmission to branch lines or smaller stations on the main line. The earliest recorded example was at <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath_railway_station" title="Haywards Heath railway station">Haywards Heath</a> in February 1858, where coaches for <a href="/wiki/Hastings" title="Hastings">Hastings</a> were slipped from a London–Brighton express.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The slipping was coordinated by a series of communication bell signals between the guards on the two portions of the train and the locomotive crew.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before 1914, twenty-one coaches were slipped each day on the Brighton main line.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coaches were slipped at <a href="/wiki/Horley_railway_station" title="Horley railway station">Horley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_railway_station" title="Three Bridges railway station">Three Bridges</a> for stations to <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead_railway_station" title="East Grinstead railway station">East Grinstead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Forest_Row_railway_station" title="Forest Row railway station">Forest Row</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horsham_railway_station" title="Horsham railway station">Horsham</a>, or at <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a> for stations to <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne_railway_station" title="Eastbourne railway station">Eastbourne</a>. The practice continued until the electrification of the main line in 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="London_suburban_traffic">London suburban traffic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: London suburban traffic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After 1870, the LB&SCR greatly encouraged commuters into London by reducing the prices of season tickets and introducing special <a href="/wiki/Cheap_Trains_Act_1883" title="Cheap Trains Act 1883"><i>workmen's trains</i></a> for manual workers in that year.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By May 1890 the company was operating 10,773 trains into its London termini each month, more than any other company.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This growth changed the character of the railway and had a profound influence upon its <a href="/wiki/Locomotive" title="Locomotive">motive power</a> policy and passenger train services. In the 1870s and 1880s it led to the building of new standard <a href="/wiki/Tank_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Tank engine">tank engine</a> classes such as the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_A1_class" title="LB&SCR A1 class"><i>Terrier</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_D1_class" title="LB&SCR D1 class">D1</a> classes under <a href="/wiki/William_Stroudley" title="William Stroudley">William Stroudley</a>. <a href="/wiki/R._J._Billinton" title="R. J. Billinton">R. J. Billinton</a> replaced these with the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_D3_class" title="LB&SCR D3 class">D3</a>, <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E3_class" title="LB&SCR E3 class">E3</a>, <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E4_class" title="LB&SCR E4 class">E4</a>, and <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E5_class" title="LB&SCR E5 class">E5</a> classes designed for London suburban services, during the 1890s. When steam locomotives became unable to cope with the increased suburban traffic and competition from electric trams in the early 20th century, it resulted in the electrification of the London suburban network. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Excursion_and_holiday_traffic">Excursion and holiday traffic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Excursion and holiday traffic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LBSCR_poster3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/LBSCR_poster3.jpg/150px-LBSCR_poster3.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/LBSCR_poster3.jpg/225px-LBSCR_poster3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/LBSCR_poster3.jpg/300px-LBSCR_poster3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1205" data-file-height="1942" /></a><figcaption>A LB&SCR poster advertising the Isle of Wight</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Excursion_train" title="Excursion train">Excursion trains</a> from London to the South Coast and the Sussex countryside had been introduced in 1844,<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were a feature of the LB&SCR throughout its existence. Special fares to Brighton and other south coast resorts on summer Sundays and at bank holidays were regularly advertised in the press. Likewise, special trains serving the regular fetes and exhibitions at Crystal Palace during the summer months. </p><p>After 1870 the LB&SCR sought to develop the holiday and excursion trade and market other south coast resorts such as <a href="/wiki/Hayling_Island" title="Hayling Island">Hayling Island</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a> as holiday destinations, by publishing a range of attractive posters. On the Isle of Wight the LB&SCR and the L&SWR jointly took over the ferry service from Portsmouth and built new pier at <a href="/wiki/Ryde_Pier_Head_railway_station" title="Ryde Pier Head railway station">Ryde</a> with a short line to the station at <a href="/wiki/Ryde_St_John%27s_Road_railway_station" title="Ryde St John's Road railway station">St John's Road</a> in 1880. During the 1900s the company ran special Sunday trains to enable London cyclists to explore the Sussex and Surrey countryside.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1905 the railway was offering day trips to <a href="/wiki/Dieppe" title="Dieppe">Dieppe</a> and circular tickets, valid for a month, to enable Londoners to explore towns along the South Coast.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1904 the Great Western Railway inaugurated holiday trains during the summer months from <a href="/wiki/Birkenhead" title="Birkenhead">Birkenhead</a> to Brighton and Eastbourne, in conjunction with the LB&SCR. The following year LB&SCR and L&NWR jointly operated the <i>Sunny South Special</i> from <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> to these destinations. These trains operated via the <a href="/wiki/West_London_line" title="West London line">West London lines</a>, with the LB&SCR responsible for their operation from Kensington or Willesden.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The LB&SCR served important <a href="/wiki/Horse_racing" title="Horse racing">Horse racing</a> tracks at <a href="/wiki/Brighton_Racecourse" title="Brighton Racecourse">Brighton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Downs_Racecourse" title="Epsom Downs Racecourse">Epsom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gatwick_Racecourse" title="Gatwick Racecourse">Gatwick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Goodwood_Racecourse" title="Goodwood Racecourse">Goodwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lewes#Sport" title="Lewes">Lewes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lingfield_Park_Racecourse" title="Lingfield Park Racecourse">Lingfield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plumpton_Racecourse" title="Plumpton Racecourse">Plumpton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Farlington_Halt_railway_station" title="Farlington Halt railway station">Portsmouth Park (Farlington)</a>. Race day special trains were an important source of revenue during the summer months.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LBSCR_poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/LBSCR_poster.jpg/220px-LBSCR_poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="364" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/LBSCR_poster.jpg/330px-LBSCR_poster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/LBSCR_poster.jpg/440px-LBSCR_poster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1180" data-file-height="1950" /></a><figcaption>1906 poster advertising rail motor services</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rail_motor_services">Rail motor services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Rail motor services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the first few years of the 20th century the LB&SCR, in common with other railways, became concerned about losses on branch and short-distance passenger services, particularly in winter. The L&SWR and the LB&SCR boards decided to investigate the use of steam powered <a href="/wiki/Railcar" title="Railcar">railcars</a> on the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">1<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span>-mile (2 km) joint branch line between Fratton and East Southsea, in June 1903. The locomotive and carriage units were both built by the L&SWR, but one of the carriages was painted in the LB&SCR livery. The two vehicles had to be quickly withdrawn as they were found to be chronically underpowered, but were rebuilt with larger boilers and thereafter gave adequate service. However, their use did not stem the loss of traffic to the roads and in 1914 the branch was closed.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nevertheless, the LB&SCR directors asked the Chief Mechanical Engineer, <a href="/wiki/R._J._Billinton" title="R. J. Billinton">Robert Billinton</a>, to investigate the use of steam or petrol <a href="/wiki/Railcar" title="Railcar">railcars</a> on lightly used services. Billinton died in 1904, before examples could be acquired, but in 1905 his successor <a href="/wiki/D._E._Marsh" title="D. E. Marsh">Douglas Earle Marsh</a> acquired two steam railcars from <a href="/wiki/Beyer,_Peacock_and_Company" title="Beyer, Peacock and Company">Beyer, Peacock and Company</a> and two petrol railcars from <a href="/wiki/Dick,_Kerr_%26_Co." title="Dick, Kerr & Co.">Dick, Kerr & Co.</a> These were compared with small steam locomotives of the Stroudley <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_A1_class" title="LB&SCR A1 class">A1</a> and <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_D1_class" title="LB&SCR D1 class">D1</a> classes fitted for "motor train" or "<a href="/wiki/Push-pull_train" class="mw-redirect" title="Push-pull train">push-pull</a>" working.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Neither type of railcar was successful, being inadequate to cope with traffic fluctuations between winter and summer, but the "motor trains" could be adapted by the addition or removal of extra coaches. As a result, the experiment provided a new lease of life for the Stroudley tank classes, which continued to be used on branch lines for many years after their withdrawal from suburban services. The <a href="/wiki/British_steam_railcars#London_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway" title="British steam railcars">steam railcars</a> were sold in 1919, and the petrol railcars were used for departmental (non-revenue-earning) purposes during the erection of the catenary for the <a href="/wiki/Overhead_lines" class="mw-redirect" title="Overhead lines">overhead electrification</a> of the London suburban lines.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the experiments relating to railcars and <i>motor trains</i>, the LB&SCR constructed unmanned halts, such as <a href="/wiki/Ifield_railway_station" title="Ifield railway station">Lyons Crossing Halt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Littlehaven_railway_station" title="Littlehaven railway station">Littlehaven Halt</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Arun_Valley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Arun Valley Line">Arun Valley Line</a>, in an attempt to increase passenger revenue. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Freight_services">Freight services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Freight services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Freight represented a relatively small part of the LB&SCR's finances during its first half century. Agricultural goods and general merchandise were carried, together with wine, foodstuffs and manufactured goods imported from France. During the 1870s the pattern of goods services slowly began to change, leading to rapid growth in the 1890s, 'caused by the transport of raw materials and finished products of entirely new industries such as petroleum, cement, brick and tile manufacture, forestry and biscuit making.'<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This resulted in the construction of 55 goods locomotives of the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_C2_class" title="LB&SCR C2 class">C2 class</a> </p><p>There were no coal mines within LB&SCR territory, and so it had to pay substantially more for its fuel than most other companies.<sup id="cite_ref-Acworth98_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Acworth98-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bulk of its coal was brought in 800 long tons (810 t) trains from Acton yard on the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a> to <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_railway_station" title="Three Bridges railway station">Three Bridges</a> for redistribution, and the LB&SCR kept two goods locomotives at the GWR Westbourne Park Depot for this purpose.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1898 there was a scheme to develop Deptford Wharf for the landing of coal by sea.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The additional fuel costs were partially offset by the sale of shingle for rail ballast from Pevensey.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main London goods depot was at 'Willow Walk', part of the <a href="/wiki/Bricklayers_Arms_railway_station" title="Bricklayers Arms railway station">Bricklayers Arms</a> complex, where the LB&SCR established its facilities in 1849.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These were enlarged in 1854 after it entered into an agreement with the <a href="/wiki/London_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="London Chatham and Dover Railway">LC&DR</a> to handle its goods traffic.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further extensions were built in 1865 and 1902.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were also freight handling facilities at <a href="/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea">Battersea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deptford_Dockyard" title="Deptford Dockyard">Deptford</a> Wharves, and <a href="/wiki/New_Cross_Gate_railway_station" title="New Cross Gate railway station">New Cross</a> in London and the railway constructed a <a href="/wiki/Marshalling_yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Marshalling yard">marshalling yard</a> to the south of <a href="/wiki/Norwood_Junction_railway_station" title="Norwood Junction railway station">Norwood Junction</a> during the 1870s, extended in the early 1880s.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other freight handling facilities outside London were at: <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a> (where there was a separate goods station at, adjacent to the passenger station), Eastbourne, Hastings, Littlehampton, Portsmouth, Newhaven, Seaford, and Three Bridges. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electrification">Electrification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Electrification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_-_construction_of_overhead_electrical_lines.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/London%2C_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_-_construction_of_overhead_electrical_lines.jpg/220px-London%2C_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_-_construction_of_overhead_electrical_lines.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/London%2C_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_-_construction_of_overhead_electrical_lines.jpg/330px-London%2C_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_-_construction_of_overhead_electrical_lines.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/London%2C_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_-_construction_of_overhead_electrical_lines.jpg/440px-London%2C_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_-_construction_of_overhead_electrical_lines.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1163" data-file-height="1205" /></a><figcaption>Construction of overhead electrical lines, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1908</span></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elevated_Electric_Train_at_Wandsworth_c_1909.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Elevated_Electric_Train_at_Wandsworth_c_1909.jpg/220px-Elevated_Electric_Train_at_Wandsworth_c_1909.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Elevated_Electric_Train_at_Wandsworth_c_1909.jpg/330px-Elevated_Electric_Train_at_Wandsworth_c_1909.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Elevated_Electric_Train_at_Wandsworth_c_1909.jpg/440px-Elevated_Electric_Train_at_Wandsworth_c_1909.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1552" data-file-height="961" /></a><figcaption>An SL Class train on the <a href="/wiki/South_London_line" title="South London line">South London line</a> at Wandsworth Road station, about 1909</figcaption></figure> <p>Proposals for a <i>London and Brighton Electric Railway</i> made to Parliament in 1900 failed to proceed, but caused the LB&SCR to consider <a href="/wiki/Railway_electrification_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway electrification system">electrification</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-grant_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grant-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, competition from the introduction of trams in London meant that annual traffic over the circuitous <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">8<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>-mile (14 km) route between Victoria and London Bridge stations had dropped from 8 million to 3 million journeys by 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of the nature of its traffic with a very large number of commuter journeys over relatively short distances, the railway was an obvious candidate for electrification, and had sought powers for suburban lines in 1903. Third and fourth rail <a href="/wiki/Direct_current" title="Direct current">direct current</a> electrification had been chosen for the underground tube railways and the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway" title="Metropolitan Railway">Metropolitan Railway</a> and <a href="/wiki/District_Railway" title="District Railway">District Railway</a> in London, the <a href="/wiki/Mersey_Railway" title="Mersey Railway">Mersey Railway</a> in Liverpool and the <a href="/wiki/Lancashire_and_Yorkshire_Railway" title="Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway">Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway</a> <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Exchange_railway_station" title="Liverpool Exchange railway station">Liverpool</a> to <a href="/wiki/Southport_railway_station" title="Southport railway station">Southport</a> line. However the LB&SCR foresaw electrification of its main line, and ultimately to Portsmouth and Hastings, and therefore decided on a high-tension overhead supply system at 6,600 volts <a href="/wiki/Alternating_current" title="Alternating current">AC</a>. </p><p>Although the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Railway" title="Midland Railway">Midland Railway</a> line from <a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Lancaster, England">Lancaster</a> to <a href="/wiki/Morecambe" title="Morecambe">Morecambe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heysham" title="Heysham">Heysham</a> had been the first to use <a href="/wiki/Overhead_line" title="Overhead line">overhead lines</a>, the LB&SCR lines covered a far greater length of track. This system was of German origin and the contractor for the electrical equipment was <a href="/wiki/AEG_(German_company)" title="AEG (German company)">Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft</a> of Berlin, while the main contractor was Robert W Blackwell & Co Ltd. Power supply was from the London Electric Supply Corporation (LESCo) at <a href="/wiki/Deptford_Power_Station" title="Deptford Power Station">Deptford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-grant_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grant-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first section was the <a href="/wiki/South_London_line" title="South London line">South London line</a> connecting London Bridge with Victoria via <a href="/wiki/Denmark_Hill_railway_station" title="Denmark Hill railway station">Denmark Hill</a>, opened on 1 December 1909. It was marketed as 'The Elevated Electric' and was an immediate success.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Traffic on the line grew from 3 to 10 million journeys per year.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other routes followed: on 12 May 1911 Victoria–<a href="/wiki/Crystal_Palace_railway_station" title="Crystal Palace railway station">Crystal Palace</a> via <a href="/wiki/Balham_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Balham railway station">Balham</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Norwood_railway_station" title="West Norwood railway station">West Norwood</a>, followed on 3 March 1912 by the line from <a href="/wiki/Peckham_Rye_Railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Peckham Rye Railway station">Peckham Rye</a> to West Norwood. Repair shops were established at Peckham Rye, and carriage sheds at <a href="/wiki/Norwood_Junction_railway_station" title="Norwood Junction railway station">Norwood Junction</a>. </p><p>Continued success and profitability of its earliest projects caused the LB&SCR to decide to electrify all remaining London suburban lines in 1913. However, the outbreak of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">war</a> the following year delayed what was planned to have been considerable further mileage of electrified line. By 1921 most of the inner London suburban lines were electrified, and during 1922 lines to <a href="/wiki/Coulsdon_North_railway_station" title="Coulsdon North railway station">Coulsdon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sutton_railway_station_(London)" title="Sutton railway station (London)">Sutton</a>, opened on 1 April 1925. During 1920 plans were drawn up to extend the 'Elevated Electric' to Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne, Newhaven and Seaford, and to Epsom and Oxted, but these were overtaken by the Grouping.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 'Elevated Electric' proved to be a technical and financial success,<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was short-lived since the <a href="/wiki/London_and_South_Western_Railway" title="London and South Western Railway">L&SWR</a> had adopted the third-rail system: its mileage far exceeded that of the LB&SCR. In 1926 the Southern Railway announced that, as part of a huge electrification project, all overhead lines were to be converted to <a href="/wiki/Third_rail" title="Third rail">third rail</a>, thus bringing all lines into a common system. The last overhead electric train ran on 22 September 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-grant_90-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grant-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accidents_and_signalling_control">Accidents and signalling control</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Accidents and signalling control"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Semaphore <a href="/wiki/Railway_signalling" title="Railway signalling">signalling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Signalling_control" title="Signalling control">signal boxes</a> were first introduced on the L&CR and had been adopted by the L&BR as early as the 1840s. There were a number of serious accidents in the early years of the LB&SCR, some due to failures in communication.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR began to improve its safety record in the 1860s with the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Interlocking" title="Interlocking">interlocking</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the early introduction of <a href="/wiki/Westinghouse_Air_Brake_Company" title="Westinghouse Air Brake Company">Westinghouse air brakes</a>. Given the large number of junctions and the intensive use of its system, the LB&SCR maintained a good safety record during the last half century of its existence. </p><p>The following accidents occurred on the LB&SCR: </p> <ul><li>On 6 June 1851, there was a <a href="/wiki/Derailment" title="Derailment">derailment</a> at <a href="/wiki/Falmer_railway_station" title="Falmer railway station">Falmer Bank</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a> due to an object on the line.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 27 November 1851, passenger train from Brighton ran into the eighth wagon of a goods train that had just left <a href="/wiki/Ford_railway_station" title="Ford railway station">Ford</a>, station, West Sussex, due to the passenger train <a href="/wiki/Signal_passed_at_danger" title="Signal passed at danger">passing a signal at danger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 17 March 1853, the boiler of locomotive No. 10 <a href="/wiki/Boiler_explosion" title="Boiler explosion">exploded</a> at <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton</a>, East Sussex.<sup id="cite_ref-Hewison_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hewison-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 27 August 1853, confusion over a warning signal at <a href="/wiki/New_Cross" title="New Cross">New Cross</a> caused a goods train to collide with an empty passenger train, resulting in the death of a fireman<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 21 August 1854, there was an accident at <a href="/wiki/East_Croydon_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="East Croydon railway station">East Croydon</a>, Surrey due to numerous causes, resulting in three fatalities and eleven injured.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 3 October 1859, the boiler of a locomotive exploded at Falmer Incline.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 25 August 1861, in the accident known as the <a href="/wiki/Clayton_Tunnel_rail_crash" title="Clayton Tunnel rail crash">Clayton Tunnel rail crash</a>, an excursion train ran into the rear of another inside <a href="/wiki/Clayton_Tunnel" title="Clayton Tunnel">Clayton Tunnel</a>, West Sussex due to a combination of the failure of an automatic signal to return to 'danger' and culpable operating errors. At the time, this was the deadliest accident up to that time in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a> with 23 killed and 176 injured.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 29 May 1863, there was a derailment at <a href="/wiki/Streatham_Common_railway_station" title="Streatham Common railway station">Streatham Common</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>. Four people (including the driver) were killed 59 people were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 23 June 1869, two trains collided at <a href="/wiki/New_Cross_Gate_railway_station" title="New Cross Gate railway station">New Cross Gate</a>, Surrey due to driver error, excessive speed and guard error, injuring 91 people.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 27 September 1879, the boiler of a locomotive exploded at <a href="/wiki/Lewes_railway_station" title="Lewes railway station">Lewes</a>, East Sussex. One person was killed and two were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-Trevena2_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevena2-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 1 May 1891, in the accident known as the <a href="/wiki/Norwood_Junction_rail_accident" title="Norwood Junction rail accident">Norwood Junction rail accident</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Cast-iron" class="mw-redirect" title="Cast-iron">cast-iron</a> bridge collapsed under a train at Norwood Junction, Surrey. Six people were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 23 July 1894, a <a href="/wiki/Brake_van" title="Brake van">brake van</a> next to the engine hauling the 6.35pm from <a href="/wiki/Havant_railway_station" title="Havant railway station">Havant</a> derailed at <a href="/wiki/Farlington_Halt_railway_station" title="Farlington Halt railway station">Farlington Halt railway station</a> and the first two coaches overturned.<sup id="cite_ref-scorer_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scorer-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The guard on the train was killed and seven passengers were injured.</li> <li>On 1 September 1897, a passenger train derailed near <a href="/wiki/Heathfield_(Sussex)_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Heathfield (Sussex) railway station">Heathfield</a>, East Sussex. One person was killed.<sup id="cite_ref-Trevena_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevena-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 23 December 1899, a Brighton train passed a signal at danger and ran into the back of a boat train express in thick fog at Keymer Junction, West Sussex. There were six fatalities and 20 injured.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1904, a freight train hauled by <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_D1_class" title="LB&SCR D1 class">D1 class</a> No. 239 <i>Patcham</i> was derailed at <a href="/wiki/Cocking,_West_Sussex" title="Cocking, West Sussex">Cocking, West Sussex</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Trevena_112-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevena-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 29 January 1910, an express passenger train became divided and was derailed at <a href="/wiki/Coulsdon_North_railway_station#1910_accident" title="Coulsdon North railway station">Stoat's Nest</a>, Surrey due to a defective wheelset on a carriage. Seven people were killed and 65 were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-Earnshaw6_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Earnshaw6-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 21 October 1913, seven labourers were working a night shift at <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_station" title="London Bridge station">London Bridge station</a>, scraping and cleaning the cradles and insulator fittings of the overhead line equipment. The wire brush of one of the men, labourer Amos Boniface, touched one of the electrical wires and he suffered severe burns. Boniface died 19 days later from his injuries.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 3 April 1916, a passenger train was derailed between <a href="/wiki/Crowborough_%26_Jarvis_Brook_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Crowborough & Jarvis Brook railway station">Crowborough & Jarvis Brook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buxted_railway_station" title="Buxted railway station">Buxted</a> stations, East Sussex.<sup id="cite_ref-Hoole3_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoole3-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 18 April 1918, a freight train became divided, the rear part coming to rest inside <a href="/wiki/Redhill_Tunnel" title="Redhill Tunnel">Redhill Tunnel</a>, Surrey. Due to a signalman's error, another freight train ran into the wagons and was derailed. A third freight train ran into the wreckage.<sup id="cite_ref-Hoole3_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoole3-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Signalling_and_signal_boxes">Signalling and signal boxes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Signalling and signal boxes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Signal_Box_at_Crawley_(geograph_551375).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Signal_Box_at_Crawley_%28geograph_551375%29.jpg/220px-Signal_Box_at_Crawley_%28geograph_551375%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Signal_Box_at_Crawley_%28geograph_551375%29.jpg/330px-Signal_Box_at_Crawley_%28geograph_551375%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Signal_Box_at_Crawley_%28geograph_551375%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="427" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>The signal box at Crawley built by Saxby and Farmer in 1877</figcaption></figure> <p>The LB&SCR originally used semaphore for home signals and 'double disc' for distant signals, but after 1872 semaphore signals were used for both purposes. </p><p>The LB&SCR was using primitive interlocking between signals at some junctions by 1844.<sup id="cite_ref-Httpwwwsignalboxorggallerylbschtm_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Httpwwwsignalboxorggallerylbschtm-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1856, <a href="/wiki/John_Saxby" title="John Saxby">John Saxby</a>, an LB&SCR carpenter, patented a form of manual <a href="/wiki/Interlocking" title="Interlocking">interlocking</a> of the points and signals, first tried at Bricklayers Arms that year.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first fully interlocking frame was installed by Saxby at Keymer Junction near <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a> in 1860, where he built a small workshop to undertake private work. He left the company and in 1862 formed <a href="/wiki/Saxby_%26_Farmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Saxby & Farmer">Saxby & Farmer</a> signalling contractors. Thereafter the LB&SC patronised Saxby & Farmer for most of its signalling until circa 1880.<sup id="cite_ref-Httpwwwsignalboxorggallerylbschtm_117-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Httpwwwsignalboxorggallerylbschtm-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thereafter it adopted the <a href="/wiki/William_Robert_Sykes#Lock_and_block" title="William Robert Sykes">Sykes 'Lock and block'</a> system used on the LC&DR.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The LB&SCR inherited the world's first signal boxes, at Bricklayers Arms Junction and Brighton Junction (Norwood). After 1880 it gradually developed its own architecture for signal boxes, using home-produced and contractor-built frames. J. E. Annett, the inventor of <a href="/wiki/Annett%27s_key" title="Annett's key">Annett's key</a> in 1875, a portable form of interlocking, was a former LB&SCR employee. </p><p>During the remodelling of <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Victoria Station">Victoria Station</a> between 1898 and 1908 it was resignalled using the <a href="/wiki/William_Robert_Sykes" title="William Robert Sykes">Sykes electromechanical method</a> for controlling points and signals, allowing for more compact signal boxes.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rolling_stock">Rolling stock</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Rolling stock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the greater part of its existence the LB&SCR relied upon <a href="/wiki/Steam_locomotives" class="mw-redirect" title="Steam locomotives">steam locomotives</a> for <a href="/wiki/Propulsion_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Propulsion system">motive power</a>, and it owned no <a href="/wiki/Diesel_locomotive" title="Diesel locomotive">diesel</a> or <a href="/wiki/Electric_locomotive" title="Electric locomotive">electric</a> locomotives. The electrified lines were worked by <a href="/wiki/Electric_multiple_units" class="mw-redirect" title="Electric multiple units">electric multiple units</a> for passenger traffic and by steam for freight. It experimented with two petrol <a href="/wiki/Railcar" title="Railcar">railcars</a> in 1906 and 1907, but these proved to be underpowered and highly unreliable and were soon taken out of traffic.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The LB&SCR under Stroudley was one of the first railways in Britain to adopt the <a href="/wiki/George_Westinghouse" title="George Westinghouse">Westinghouse</a> <a href="/wiki/Railway_air_brake" title="Railway air brake">air brake</a> after 1877<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in preference to the far less effective vacuum brakes employed by its neighbours. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Steam_locomotives">Steam locomotives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Steam locomotives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The LB&SCR inherited 51 steam locomotives from the <a href="/wiki/Brighton,_Croydon_and_Dover_Joint_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Brighton, Croydon and Dover Joint Committee">Brighton, Croydon and Dover Joint Committee</a>, and it built or purchased 1,055 locomotives.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of these, 620 were handed over to the Southern Railway on 1 January 1923. </p><p>The LB&SCR achieved early fame as the first railway to use the <i><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Lind_locomotive" title="Jenny Lind locomotive">Jenny Lind</a></i> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2-2-2" title="2-2-2">2-2-2</a></span> locomotive in 1847, designed by <a href="/wiki/David_Joy_(engineer)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Joy (engineer)">David Joy</a>, the Chief Draughtsman of the <a href="/wiki/E._B._Wilson_and_Company" title="E. B. Wilson and Company">E. B. Wilson and Company</a> of <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>, later widely used by other railways. The policy of <a href="/wiki/John_Chester_Craven" title="John Chester Craven">John Chester Craven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Locomotive_Superintendent" class="mw-redirect" title="Locomotive Superintendent">Locomotive Superintendent</a> from 1847 to 1869, was to design locomotives for each task or type of traffic. Many of his designs were capable locomotives, but with 72 different classes in use at the time of <a href="/wiki/William_Stroudley" title="William Stroudley">William Stroudley</a>'s appointment in 1870, the policy was hopelessly uneconomic. </p><p>Stroudley reduced this to 12 main classes, many with interchangeable parts, by 1888.<sup id="cite_ref-Acworth98_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Acworth98-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He introduced a number of extremely successful and long-lived designs, notably the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_A1_class" title="LB&SCR A1 class">A1 ('Terrier')</a> and <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E1_Class" class="mw-redirect" title="LB&SCR E1 Class">E1 classes</a> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-6-0" title="0-6-0">0-6-0</a><a href="/wiki/Side_tank_locomotive" class="mw-redirect" title="Side tank locomotive"><abbr title="Side tank">T</abbr></a></span>, and the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_D1_class" title="LB&SCR D1 class">D1 class</a> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-4-2" title="0-4-2">0-4-2</a><a href="/wiki/Side_tank_locomotive" class="mw-redirect" title="Side tank locomotive"><abbr title="Side tank">T</abbr></a></span>, the powerful <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_G_class" title="LB&SCR G class">G class</a> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2-2-2" title="2-2-2">2-2-2</a></span> 'singles' and the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_B1_class" title="LB&SCR B1 class">B1 'Gladstone' class</a> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-4-2" title="0-4-2">0-4-2</a></span> express passenger locomotives. Less successful were his <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_C_class" title="LB&SCR C class">C</a> and <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_C1_Class" class="mw-redirect" title="LB&SCR C1 Class">C1</a> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-6-0" title="0-6-0">0-6-0</a></span> classes of 1871 and 1882 respectively, both of which proved to be underpowered as the volume of freight traffic grew towards the end of the century. Stroudley's locomotives were all limited to six wheels, and he never used <a href="/wiki/Bogie" title="Bogie">bogies</a> largely because of the limitations imposed by <a href="/wiki/Turntable_(rail)" class="mw-redirect" title="Turntable (rail)">turntables</a>, notably at Victoria. The high price of coal encouraged him to experiment with <a href="/wiki/Condensing_steam_locomotive" title="Condensing steam locomotive">condensing apparatus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stroudley's successor <a href="/wiki/R._J._Billinton" title="R. J. Billinton">R. J. Billinton</a> continued the process of standardisation of locomotive parts until his death in 1904, thereby reducing maintenance costs. He introduced eight-wheeled designs in the form of <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/4-4-0" title="4-4-0">4-4-0</a></span> express locomotives of the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_B4_Class" class="mw-redirect" title="LB&SCR B4 Class">B4 class</a> and the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_D3_class" title="LB&SCR D3 class">D3</a> class <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-4-4" class="mw-redirect" title="0-4-4">0-4-4</a><a href="/wiki/Side_tank_locomotive" class="mw-redirect" title="Side tank locomotive"><abbr title="Side tank">T</abbr></a></span>, for use on London suburban services. He also introduced a very successful and versatile series of four <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-6-2" title="0-6-2">0-6-2</a><a href="/wiki/Side_tank_locomotive" class="mw-redirect" title="Side tank locomotive"><abbr title="Side tank">T</abbr></a></span> tank engine classes with <a href="/wiki/Radial_axle" title="Radial axle">radial axles</a> for both passenger and freight duties. Of less success was his <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-6-0" title="0-6-0">0-6-0</a></span> freight locomotives of the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_C2_Class" class="mw-redirect" title="LB&SCR C2 Class">C2 class</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/D.E._Marsh" class="mw-redirect" title="D.E. Marsh">D.E. Marsh</a> continued the process of building larger locomotives with the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_H1_class" title="LB&SCR H1 class">H1 class</a> of <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/4-4-2_(locomotive)" title="4-4-2 (locomotive)">4-4-2</a></span> express passenger locomotives of 1905, based on a former Great Northern railway design. A <a href="/wiki/Superheater" title="Superheater">superheated</a> version was introduced in 1911. Marsh was also responsible for the design of four of <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/4-4-2_(locomotive)" title="4-4-2 (locomotive)">4-4-2</a><a href="/wiki/Side_tank_locomotive" class="mw-redirect" title="Side tank locomotive"><abbr title="Side tank">T</abbr></a></span> classes (I1-I4) but of these, only the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_I3_class" title="LB&SCR I3 class">I3 class</a> were successful, being described by Klaus Marx as 'wonder engines'.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This class was also instrumental in demonstrating the benefits of superheating to locomotive engineers in Britain. Marsh also designed a <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_J1_class" class="mw-redirect" title="LB&SCR J1 class">class</a> of <a href="/wiki/4-6-2" title="4-6-2">4-6-2</a> <a href="/wiki/Tank_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Tank engine">tank engines</a>, and a very poor <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_C3_class" title="LB&SCR C3 class">C3 class</a> of <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/0-6-0" title="0-6-0">0-6-0</a></span>, freight locomotives, which proved to perform worse than the locomotives they were due to replace. However, he found that by rebuilding Billinton's unsuccessful C2 class with his newly designed C3 boiler he was at last able to produce a successful freight design for the railway in the form of the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_C2_class" title="LB&SCR C2 class">C2X class</a>. </p><p>The last <a href="/wiki/Chief_Mechanical_Engineer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Mechanical Engineer">Chief Mechanical Engineer</a> was <a href="/wiki/L.B._Billinton" class="mw-redirect" title="L.B. Billinton">L.B. Billinton</a>, who designed the powerful <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_K_class" title="LB&SCR K class">K class</a> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2-6-0" title="2-6-0">2-6-0</a></span> <a href="/wiki/Mixed-traffic_locomotive" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed-traffic locomotive">mixed-traffic locomotives</a> and the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E2_class" title="LB&SCR E2 class">LB&SCR E2 class</a> in 1913, and the <a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_L_class" title="LB&SCR L class">L class</a> <a href="/wiki/4-6-4" title="4-6-4">4-6-4</a> tanks of 1914. All of these designs were successful but his career was cut short by the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> and the grouping of British railways. According to D.L. Bradley, the railway handed over "a nicely balanced stock of locomotives well-suited to the demands of the Brighton section" to the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Railway_(UK)" title="Southern Railway (UK)">Southern Railway</a> at grouping in 1923.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>LB&SCR locomotive designs had little impact on the locomotive policy of the Southern Railway after 1923 because they were built to a more generous <a href="/wiki/Loading_gauge" title="Loading gauge">loading gauge</a> and had Westinghouse air brakes unlike the two other main constituent companies. Although the designs were not perpetuated, the originals proved to be particularly long-lived. 62.8% of locomotives inherited by the Southern Railway were still in use at the nationalisation of <a href="/wiki/British_Rail" title="British Rail">British Railways</a> in 1948, compared with 57.9% for the L&SWR and 56.8% for the SE&CR.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electric_traction">Electric traction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Electric traction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The electrified lines were operated by <a href="/wiki/Electric_multiple_units" class="mw-redirect" title="Electric multiple units">electric multiple units</a>. These were originally three-car units, with a trailer sandwiched between motor cars, later converted into two-car units with one driving motor car and one <a href="/wiki/Control_car_(rail)" class="mw-redirect" title="Control car (rail)">driving trailer</a>. New classes of multiple unit were developed for each electrified line, known as the <a href="/wiki/SR_Class_SL" title="SR Class SL">South London stock</a> and the <a href="/wiki/SR_Class_CP" title="SR Class CP">Crystal Palace stock</a>. A third type, the <a href="/wiki/SR_Class_CW" title="SR Class CW">Coulsdon and Wallington stock</a> was planned by the LB&SCR but introduced by the Southern Railway. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style></p><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/SR_multiple_unit_numbering_and_classification" class="mw-redirect" title="SR multiple unit numbering and classification">SR multiple unit numbering and classification</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coaching_stock">Coaching stock</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Coaching stock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LBSC_661.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/LBSC_661.JPG/220px-LBSC_661.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/LBSC_661.JPG/330px-LBSC_661.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/LBSC_661.JPG/440px-LBSC_661.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>LB&SCR coach no. 661 at Horsted Keynes, Bluebell Railway</figcaption></figure> <p>The jobs of <a href="/wiki/Locomotive_Superintendent" class="mw-redirect" title="Locomotive Superintendent">Locomotive Superintendent</a> and Carriage and wagon superintendent were combined until the retirement of <a href="/wiki/D._E._Marsh" title="D. E. Marsh">D. E. Marsh</a> in 1911. As a result, the LB&SCR was never at the forefront of carriage development for its ordinary <a href="/wiki/Passenger_car_(rail)" class="mw-redirect" title="Passenger car (rail)">coaching stock</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as late as the mid-1860s was still building open-side 3rd class carriages.<sup id="cite_ref-Ellis_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ellis-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stroudley introduced four-wheeled and later six-wheeled designs which lasted for 40 years, and shortly before his death in 1889 he introduced a few <a href="/wiki/Bogie" title="Bogie">bogie</a> carriages for the main business trains.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stroudley was a pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Dynamo" title="Dynamo">dynamo</a>-driven <a href="/wiki/Electric_lighting" class="mw-redirect" title="Electric lighting">electric lighting</a><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Communication_cord" class="mw-redirect" title="Communication cord">communication cords</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ellis_130-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ellis-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR introduced breakfast cars to its main business trains. </p><p>The appointment of Albert Panter as Carriage and Wagon Works Manager under <a href="/wiki/R._J._Billinton" title="R. J. Billinton">Robert Billinton</a> in 1898 (Carriage and Wagon Superintendent from 1912) led to the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Bogie" title="Bogie">bogie</a> carriages for mainline trains in 1905,<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but suburban services were operated by six-wheeled "block trains" with solid wooden <a href="/wiki/Buffer_(rail_transport)" title="Buffer (rail transport)">buffers</a>, permanently tight coupled in sets of ten or 12.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of these were still in use at grouping in 1923. Better vehicles appeared early in the 20th century with the 'Balloon stock' and electric stock.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sixteen carriages of LB&SCR origin have been preserved, including one luxurious "Directors' saloon" of 1914: these are principally on the <a href="/wiki/Bluebell_Railway" title="Bluebell Railway">Bluebell Railway</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_Steam_Railway" title="Isle of Wight Steam Railway">Isle of Wight Steam Railway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of grounded carriage bodies used as holiday homes survive. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wagons">Wagons</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Wagons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sixteen wagons formerly in LB&SCR ownership now survive, largely because the Southern Railway transferred them to the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a>, where they remained in use until the 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liveries">Liveries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Liveries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After 1870 the LB&SCR was renowned for the attractiveness of its locomotives and coaching stock and condition of its country stations. "No company, even <a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Western_Railway" title="London and North Western Railway">the North-Western itself</a> turns out smarter looking trains than the Brighton main line expresses and even some of the suburban trains."<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1846 and 1870 passenger locomotives were painted <a href="/wiki/Hunter_green" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunter green">hunter green</a> with some having black lining. Frames were red, and wheels were black; <a href="/wiki/Buffer_beam" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffer beam">buffer beams</a> were the regulation 'signal red'. Goods locomotives were black with red and white lining, except those operating into <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton</a> or <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Bridge railway station">London Bridge</a>, in passenger livery. Some engines had <a href="/wiki/Boiler" title="Boiler">boilers</a> lagged with wooden strips. These were either highly polished <a href="/wiki/Mahogany" title="Mahogany">mahogany</a> with <a href="/wiki/Brass" title="Brass">brass</a> fixings or were painted in alternating stripes of dark green and <a href="/wiki/Vermilion" title="Vermilion">vermilion</a>. The main shade of green used gradually became darker. By the time <a href="/wiki/William_Stroudley" title="William Stroudley">Stroudley</a> became Locomotive Superintendent the colour had become a variant of <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Brunswick Green">Brunswick Green</a> used by many other companies. <a href="/wiki/Carriage" title="Carriage">Carriages</a> were painted <a href="/wiki/Sea_green" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea green">sea green</a> or varnished wood, the latter mainly first class stock. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:B2_Bessemer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/B2_Bessemer.jpg/220px-B2_Bessemer.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/B2_Bessemer.jpg/330px-B2_Bessemer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/B2_Bessemer.jpg/440px-B2_Bessemer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1627" data-file-height="812" /></a><figcaption>B2 Class 213 <i>Bessemer</i> 1897, in Stroudley's "Improved Engine Green"</figcaption></figure> <p>From 1870 to 1905 the livery was Stroudley's famous <span class="anchor" id="Improved_Engine_Green"></span><b>Improved Engine Green</b>, a golden <a href="/wiki/Ochre" title="Ochre">ochre</a> very similar to that used by his former employer, the <a href="/wiki/Highland_Railway" title="Highland Railway">Highland Railway</a>. On passenger locomotives Improved Engine Green was finished with <a href="/wiki/Olive_green" class="mw-redirect" title="Olive green">olive green</a> borders lined with black, red and white. Frames and buffer beams were <a href="/wiki/Carmine" title="Carmine">carmine</a> red, lined with yellow and black. The wheels were Improved Engine Green with red lining. Cab roofs were white. Goods engines were all-over <a href="/wiki/Olive_green" class="mw-redirect" title="Olive green">olive green</a> with black borders, similar to the pre-1870 colours. If fitted with <a href="/wiki/Westinghouse_Air_Brake_Company" title="Westinghouse Air Brake Company">Westinghouse</a> brakes the black borders were edged with red lines. Locomotives with names had the name applied in <a href="/wiki/Gold_leaf" title="Gold leaf">gold leaf</a> to the tank side on <a href="/wiki/Tank_locomotives" class="mw-redirect" title="Tank locomotives">tank locomotives</a>, to a wheel splasher on tender locomotives. The letters were edged with a thin red line and given depth with black shading. This livery was one of the most ornate and distinctive used on British locomotives, and is remembered with nostalgia. Carriages were all <a href="/wiki/Mahogany" title="Mahogany">mahogany</a> in colour, with white roofs and black chassis gear. Initially the wood of the body was varnished, but as it became harder to maintain a high-quality varnish finish and it was painted in a similar-coloured <a href="/wiki/Paint" title="Paint">paint</a>. Panel lining and other details were picked out with <a href="/wiki/Gold_leaf" title="Gold leaf">gold leaf</a>. </p><p>From 1905 to 1923 front-line express locomotives were a dark shade of <a href="/wiki/Umber" title="Umber">umber</a>. Lining was black with a <a href="/wiki/Gilding" title="Gilding">gilt</a> line either side. Cab roofs remained white. Frames were black, wheels umber, and buffer beams returned to signal red. The company's initials were painted on the tender- or tank-sides (initially 'L.B.& S.C.R.', but after 1911 the <a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersand</a> and the R were removed) in gilt. Secondary passenger locomotives had the same livery, but instead of gilt lining <a href="/wiki/Chrome_yellow" title="Chrome yellow">chrome yellow</a> paint was used. Goods engines were gloss black with double vermilion lining. Names and numbers were in white letters with red shading. Carriages were initially all olive green with white lining and detailing. From 1911 this changed to plain umber with black lettering picked out with gold shading. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ferry_services_and_ships">Ferry services and ships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Ferry services and ships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LBSCR_ferries.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/LBSCR_ferries.jpg/250px-LBSCR_ferries.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/LBSCR_ferries.jpg/375px-LBSCR_ferries.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/LBSCR_ferries.jpg/500px-LBSCR_ferries.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1898" data-file-height="1220" /></a><figcaption>A map showing the main LB&SCR ferry routes in 1888</figcaption></figure> <p>The LB&SCR invested in cross-channel ferry services, initially from Shoreham to Dieppe. Following the opening of the line to <a href="/wiki/Newhaven,_East_Sussex" class="mw-redirect" title="Newhaven, East Sussex">Newhaven</a> in 1847, it improved <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Newhaven" title="Port of Newhaven">Newhaven harbour</a>, building a wharf and dredging the channel. A Newhaven–Dieppe service was established in 1847, but discontinued soon afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-measomvi_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-measomvi-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1850 it established a Newhaven–<a href="/wiki/Jersey" title="Jersey">Jersey</a> ferry service, and in 1853 it reinstated the Dieppe service.<sup id="cite_ref-measomvi_139-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-measomvi-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_(New_Lines)_Act_1862&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (New Lines) Act 1862 (page does not exist)">London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (New Lines) Act 1862</a> (<a href="/wiki/25_%26_26_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="25 & 26 Vict.">25 & 26 Vict.</a> c. lxviii) gave the LB&SCR power to own and operate its own steam vessels,<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so it instructed Chief Engineer <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Banister" title="Frederick Banister">Frederick Banister</a> to greatly expand the port and its facilities. In 1863 the <a href="/wiki/Chemins_de_Fer_de_l%27Ouest" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest">Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest</a> in France agreed to operate the Newhaven–Dieppe passenger service jointly, advertised as the "shortest and cheapest" route to <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but never the quickest because of the much longer time taken at sea than the rival <a href="/wiki/Dover" title="Dover">Dover</a> to <a href="/wiki/Calais" title="Calais">Calais</a> route. (Newhaven harbour was taken over by the military authorities and the ferries requisitioned for the duration of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>.) </p><p>In 1863, the LB&SCR transferred the Jersey service to Littlehampton and soon afterwards established another between Littlehampton and <a href="/wiki/Honfleur" title="Honfleur">Honfleur</a>. </p><p>By 1880 lines connected the <a href="/wiki/Ryde" title="Ryde">Ryde</a> Pier and the Portsmouth Harbour ferry terminals. It was therefore a natural progression for the companies to acquire the ferry routes. To do this the LB&SCR and the L&SWR formed the South Western and Brighton Railway Companies Steam Packet Service (SW&BRCSPS), which bought the operators.<sup id="cite_ref-Jordan_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jordan-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1884 the Isle of Wight Marine Transit Company started a goods rail ferry between the <a href="/wiki/Hayling_Island_Branch_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Hayling Island Branch Line">Hayling Island Branch Line</a> at <a href="/wiki/Langstone,_Hampshire" title="Langstone, Hampshire">Langstone</a> and the Bembridge branch line at <a href="/wiki/St_Helens,_Isle_of_Wight" title="St Helens, Isle of Wight">St Helens</a> quay. The rail ferry <a href="/wiki/TF_Carrier" title="TF Carrier">PS <i>Carrier</i></a>, designed to carry railway trucks, was moved from Scotland. The project was unsuccessful and, despite being acquired by the LB&SCR in 1886, ended in 1888.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The LB&SCR operated a significant number of ships in its own right, jointly with <a href="/wiki/Chemins_de_Fer_de_l%27Ouest" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest">Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest</a>, and as a part of the SW&BRCSPS. See <a href="/wiki/List_of_LB%26SCR_ships" title="List of LB&SCR ships">List of LB&SCR ships</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Structures,_buildings_and_civil_engineering"><span id="Structures.2C_buildings_and_civil_engineering"></span>Structures, buildings and civil engineering</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Structures, buildings and civil engineering"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The LB&SCR inherited significant structures, buildings and other civil engineering features, including: </p> <ul><li>Bridges and viaducts – the <a href="/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Viaduct" title="Ouse Valley Viaduct">Ouse Valley Viaduct</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Road_viaduct" class="mw-redirect" title="London Road viaduct">London Road viaduct</a>, the Lewes Road viaduct <a href="/wiki/Moulsecoomb" title="Moulsecoomb">Moulsecoomb</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Norwood_Junction_railway_station" title="Norwood Junction railway station">Norwood Junction flyover</a>, the world's first railway <a href="/wiki/Overpass" title="Overpass">overpass</a>.</li> <li>Tunnels – <a href="/wiki/Merstham_tunnels" title="Merstham tunnels">Merstham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balcombe_tunnel" title="Balcombe tunnel">Balcombe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath_Tunnel" title="Haywards Heath Tunnel">Haywards Heath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clayton_Tunnel" title="Clayton Tunnel">Clayton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patcham_Tunnel" title="Patcham Tunnel">Patcham</a>, Ditchling Road (Brighton) and <a href="/wiki/Falmer" title="Falmer">Falmer</a></li> <li>Stations – Modular station buildings at <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Croydon_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="East Croydon railway station">Croydon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redhill_railway_station" title="Redhill railway station">Redhill and Reigate Road</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horley_railway_station" title="Horley railway station">Horley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_railway_station" title="Three Bridges railway station">Three Bridges</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hassocks_railway_station" title="Hassocks railway station">Hassocks</a>, designed by <a href="/wiki/David_Mocatta" title="David Mocatta">David Mocatta</a>.</li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Horsted_Keynes_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_702114.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Horsted_Keynes_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_702114.jpg/200px-Horsted_Keynes_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_702114.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Horsted_Keynes_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_702114.jpg/300px-Horsted_Keynes_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_702114.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Horsted_Keynes_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_702114.jpg/400px-Horsted_Keynes_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_702114.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The entrance to <a href="/wiki/Horsted_Keynes_railway_station" title="Horsted Keynes railway station">Horsted Keynes railway station</a> typical of several late Victorian LB&SCR country stations in Sussex</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stations">Stations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The LB&SCR inherited or built 20 termini, the most significant at <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Bridge railway station">London Bridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Victoria railway station">Victoria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Harbour_railway_station" title="Portsmouth Harbour railway station">Portsmouth Harbour</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne_railway_station" title="Eastbourne railway station">Eastbourne</a>. Stations at major junctions included <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Croydon_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="East Croydon railway station">East Croydon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_railway_station" title="Three Bridges railway station">Three Bridges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horsham_railway_station" title="Horsham railway station">Horsham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lewes_railway_station" title="Lewes railway station">Lewes</a>. </p><p>The use of Mocatta's modular station designs was not perpetuated. During the 1850s and 1860s most stations were constructed according to one or two stock designs prepared by the Chief Engineers, R. Jacomb-Hood and <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Banister" title="Frederick Banister">Frederick Banister</a> (1860–1895). Banister had a love of <a href="/wiki/Italianate_architecture" title="Italianate architecture">Italianate architecture</a>, meaning that during the 1880s the LB&SCR produced elaborate decorated architecture for many country stations, notably on the Bluebell and Cuckoo Lines.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The architect was Banister's son-in-law, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Myres" title="Thomas Myres">Thomas Myres</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Workshops_and_motive_power_depots">Workshops and motive power depots</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Workshops and motive power depots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The L&BR established a repair workshop at <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_works" title="Brighton railway works">Brighton</a> in 1840. Between 1852 and 1957 more than 1,200 steam locomotives and prototype diesel electric and electric locomotives were constructed there, before closure in 1962. It had small locomotive repair facilities at <a href="/wiki/New_Cross_Gate_railway_station" title="New Cross Gate railway station">New Cross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park_railway_station" title="Battersea Park railway station">Battersea Park</a> Depots in London. </p><p>By the first decade of the 20th century, Brighton works could no longer cope with the repair and building of both locomotives and rolling stock. In 1911 the LB&SCR built a carriage and wagon works at <a href="/wiki/Lancing_Carriage_Works" title="Lancing Carriage Works">Lancing</a>, which operated until 1965. A marine engineering workshop was established in the mid-1870s at <a href="/wiki/Newhaven,_East_Sussex" class="mw-redirect" title="Newhaven, East Sussex">Newhaven</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There were <a href="/wiki/Motive_power_depot" title="Motive power depot">engine sheds</a> at <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park_railway_station" title="Battersea Park railway station">Battersea Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis_railway_station" title="Bognor Regis railway station">Bognor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coulsdon_North_railway_station" title="Coulsdon North railway station">Coulsdon</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Croydon_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="West Croydon railway station">Croydon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne_railway_station" title="Eastbourne railway station">Eastbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epsom_railway_station" title="Epsom railway station">Epsom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fratton_railway_station" title="Fratton railway station">Fratton</a> (joint) <a href="/wiki/Horsham_railway_station" title="Horsham railway station">Horsham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton_railway_station" title="Littlehampton railway station">Littlehampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midhurst_railway_station" title="Midhurst railway station">Midhurst</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Cross_Gate_railway_station" title="New Cross Gate railway station">New Cross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newhaven_Town_railway_station" title="Newhaven Town railway station">Newhaven</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Leonards_West_Marina_railway_station" title="St Leonards West Marina railway station">St Leonards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges_railway_station" title="Three Bridges railway station">Three Bridges</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tunbridge_Wells_West_railway_station" title="Tunbridge Wells West railway station">Tunbridge Wells West</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The headquarters and main offices were at <a href="/wiki/Brighton_railway_station" title="Brighton railway station">Brighton railway station</a> from 1846 until 1892, when they were transferred to the former <i>Terminus Hotel</i> at <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Bridge railway station">London Bridge</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hotels">Hotels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Hotels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The LB&SCR opened the <i>Terminus Hotel</i> at <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_station" title="London Bridge station">London Bridge</a> and the <i>Grosvenor Hotel</i> at <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_station" title="London Victoria station">Victoria</a> in 1861. The first of these was not successful due to its site on the south bank and was turned into offices for the railway in 1892. It was destroyed by bombing in 1941. The <i>Grosvenor Hotel</i> was rebuilt and enlarged in 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR acquired the <i>Terminus Hotel</i> next to Brighton station in 1877,<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and operated the <i>London and Paris Hotel</i> at Newhaven.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_LB&SCR_as_an_investment"><span id="The_LB.26SCR_as_an_investment"></span>The LB&SCR as an investment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: The LB&SCR as an investment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1867 report by the railway found that there had been 'a reckless disregard for shareholders' interests for many years.'.<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, the company policies were several times subjected to criticism in pamphlets published during the 1870s and 1880s.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The matter was settled in 1890 when the economist and editor of the <a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a>, William Ramage Lawson, conducted a detailed analysis of the financial performance and prospects of the LB&SCR, comparing it with other British railways. He concluded that the <i>Brighton Deferred stock</i> 'combined the highest return on investment, with the best prospect of future appreciation and the smallest risk of retrogression.'<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the reasons given for this opinion were: </p> <ul><li>Well established route and freedom from competition</li> <li>Varied and well distributed sources of traffic</li> <li>Moderate working expenses due to high quality construction of the original route and good maintenance.</li> <li>Energetic and prudent management</li></ul> <p>From 1870 the LB&SCR appears to have been a well-run, enterprising and profitable railway for its shareholders. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chairmen_of_the_board_of_directors">Chairmen of the board of directors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Chairmen of the board of directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grenfell_(1790%E2%80%931867)" title="Charles Grenfell (1790–1867)">Charles Pasco Grenfell</a> (1846–1848)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Laing_(science_writer)" title="Samuel Laing (science writer)">Samuel Laing</a> (1848–1855)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Schuster" title="Leo Schuster">Leo Schuster</a> (1856–1866)</li> <li>Peter Northall Lawrie (1866–1867)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Walter_Barttelot,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet">Sir Walter Barttelot</a> (April – July 1867)</li> <li>Samuel Laing (again, 1867–1896)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fremantle,_2nd_Baron_Cottesloe" title="Thomas Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe">Lord Cottesloe</a> (1896–1908)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ponsonby,_8th_Earl_of_Bessborough" title="Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough">Earl of Bessborough</a> (1908–1920) – died in office</li> <li>Charles C. Macrae (1920–1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Loder,_1st_Baron_Wakehurst" title="Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst">Gerald Loder</a> (December 1922)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Members_of_the_board_of_directors">Members of the board of directors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Members of the board of directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>John Pares Bickersteth<sup id="cite_ref-BSG-1905-187_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSG-1905-187-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rear-Admiral The Hon. Thomas S. Brand<sup id="cite_ref-BSG-1905-187_153-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSG-1905-187-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Major <a href="/wiki/Philip_Cardew" title="Philip Cardew">Philip Cardew</a><sup id="cite_ref-BSG-1905-187_153-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSG-1905-187-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Docker" title="Dudley Docker">Dudley Docker</a></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Julian_Goldsmid" title="Julian Goldsmid">Julian Goldsmid</a></li> <li>William Milburn<sup id="cite_ref-BSG-1905-187_153-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSG-1905-187-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Nevill,_3rd_Marquess_of_Abergavenny" title="Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny">Lord Henry Nevill</a><sup id="cite_ref-BSG-1905-187_153-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSG-1905-187-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>John Nix</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Otway,_3rd_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Arthur Otway, 3rd Baronet">Sir Arthur Otway, 3rd Baronet</a> – Deputy-Chairman in 1905<sup id="cite_ref-BSG-1905-187_153-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSG-1905-187-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Spencer_Walpole" title="Spencer Walpole">Spencer Walpole</a><sup id="cite_ref-BSG-1905-187_153-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BSG-1905-187-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Managers">Managers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Managers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Peter Clarke(1846–1848) – Manager</li> <li>George Hawkins (1849–1850) – Goods Manager</li> <li>? Pountain (1849–1850) – Non Goods Manager</li> <li>George Hawkins (1849–1850) – Traffic Manager</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Peake_Knight" class="mw-redirect" title="John Peake Knight">John Peake Knight</a> (1869–1870) – Traffic Manager</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Peake_Knight" class="mw-redirect" title="John Peake Knight">John Peake Knight</a> (1870–1886) general manager</li> <li>Sir Allen Sarle (1886–1897) general manager</li> <li>John Francis Sykes Gooday (1897–1899) general manager</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lt_Col_Forbes" class="mw-redirect" title="Lt Col Forbes">William de Guise Forbes</a> (1899–1922) general manager</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretaries">Secretaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Secretaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>T.J. Buckton (1846–1849)</li> <li>Frederick Slight (1849–1867)</li> <li>Sir Allen Sarle (1867–1898) from 1886 to 1898 also general manager</li> <li>J.J. Brewer (1898–1922)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chief_engineers">Chief engineers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Chief engineers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Robert Jacomb-Hood (1846–1860)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Banister" title="Frederick Banister">Frederick Banister</a> (1860–1895)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Langbridge_Morgan_(engineer)" title="Charles Langbridge Morgan (engineer)">Charles Langbridge Morgan</a> (1895–1917)</li> <li>J.B. Ball (1917–1920)</li> <li>O.G.C. Drury (1920–1922)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Locomotive_superintendents">Locomotive superintendents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Locomotive superintendents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Gray_(locomotive_engineer)" title="John Gray (locomotive engineer)">John Gray</a> (1846–1847)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kirtley" title="Thomas Kirtley">Thomas Kirtley</a> (February–November 1847) – died in office</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chester_Craven" title="John Chester Craven">John Chester Craven</a> (1847–1870)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Stroudley" title="William Stroudley">William Stroudley</a> (1870–1889) – died in office</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._J._Billinton" title="R. J. Billinton">R. J. Billinton</a> (1890–1904) – died in office</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._E._Marsh" title="D. E. Marsh">D. E. Marsh</a> (1905–1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._B._Billinton" title="L. B. Billinton">L. B. Billinton</a> (1912–1922)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Carriage_and_wagon_superintendent">Carriage and wagon superintendent</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Carriage and wagon superintendent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Albert Panter (1912–1922)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fireman">Fireman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Fireman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curly_Lawrence" title="Curly Lawrence">Curly Lawrence</a> known as LBSC, one of Britain's most prolific and well known model or scale-steam-locomotive designers, was employed as a fireman on the LB&SCR as a young man, and took the shortened version of its initials as his pseudonym.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Industrial_relations">Industrial relations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Industrial relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">United Kingdom legislation</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vevent mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size:100%"><span style="font-size:125%">London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (Pensions) Act 1899</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;">Act of Parliament</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/140px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/210px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/280px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="1550" /></span></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Short_and_long_titles" title="Short and long titles">Long title</a></th><td class="infobox-data description">An Act to provide for the establishment and regulation of a Pension Fund for officers and servants of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/62_%26_63_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="62 & 63 Vict.">62 & 63 Vict.</a> c. liv</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">13 July 1899</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/62-63/54/pdfs/ukla_18990054_en.pdf">Text of statute as originally enacted</a></th></tr></tbody></table> <p>For its time, the LB&SCR was regarded as a good employer. In 1851 it created a benevolent fund for staff who had become incapacitated, and from 1854 operated a savings bank. In 1867 there was a two-day strike involving the <a href="/wiki/Railroad_engineer" class="mw-redirect" title="Railroad engineer">drivers and firemen</a> over their working hours, resolved by negotiation.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1872 a <a href="/wiki/Superannuation" class="mw-redirect" title="Superannuation">superannuation</a> fund was established for higher grades of staff, extended to become a pension fund for all staff in 1899 under the <b><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509"><span class="vanchor"><span id="London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway_(Pensions)_Act_1899"></span><span class="vanchor-text">London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (Pensions) Act 1899</span></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/62_%26_63_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="62 & 63 Vict.">62 & 63 Vict.</a> c. liv).<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Labour relations between the railway management, locomotive crews and Brighton works staff declined markedly in the period 1905 and 1910 leading to several strikes and sackings.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was partly due to increased union militancy and to the intransigency of the Locomotive Superintendent <a href="/wiki/D._E._Marsh" title="D. E. Marsh">Douglas Earle Marsh</a>. This situation improved under Marsh's successor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_early_British_railway_companies" title="List of early British railway companies">List of early British railway companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locomotives_of_the_Southern_Railway#London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Locomotives of the Southern Railway">Locomotives of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_LB%26SCR_ships" title="List of LB&SCR ships">List of LB&SCR ships</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-RYB-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-RYB_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RYB_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Railway Year Book for 1920</i>. London: The Railway Publishing Company Limited. 1920. p. 189.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Railway+Year+Book+for+1920&rft.place=London&rft.pages=189&rft.pub=The+Railway+Publishing+Company+Limited&rft.date=1920&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">White (1961), pp. 84, 99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1977), pp. 253–71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burtt (1975), 19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 65.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sekon (1895), pp. 12–14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Turner29-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Turner29_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Turner29_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1976), p. 29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1976), pp. 79–82.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1976), 82–84.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jackson (1978), p. 101.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 253–71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 61–65.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 126.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 85–88.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAwdry1990187-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAwdry1990187_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAwdry1990">Awdry 1990</a>, p. 187.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 98–100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 170–71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pratt (1921), pp. 1032–33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jordan-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Jordan_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Jordan_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jordan (1998).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), p. 49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Eborall and Smiles (1867).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Spence (1952), pp. 27–59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">White (1961), p. 44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Turner112-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Turner112_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Turner112_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1977), pp. 112–13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 262</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">London Brighton & South Coast Railway (1867).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">London Brighton & South Coast Railway (1867), Appendix C.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Heap and van Riemsdijk (1980), p. 89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1979), pp. 3–14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'Railway amalgamation', (1875), pp. 430–31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lawson (1891), p. 91.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lawson (1891) pp. 6, 91.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'Return of Running of Passenger Trains on Main and Branch Lines of London, Brighton and S. Coast, London, Chatham and Dover, London and S.W. and S.E. Railways, April–June 1889,' House of Commons Papers, 1889.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Awdry (1990), pp. 189–90.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1979), p. 66.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 137–40, 244–45.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robertson (1985).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAhrons1953" class="citation book cs1">Ahrons, E.L. (1953). <i>Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century</i>. Vol. 5. Cambridge: Heffer and Sons. pp. 87–8.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Locomotive+and+train+working+in+the+latter+part+of+the+nineteenth+century&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pages=87-8&rft.pub=Heffer+and+Sons&rft.date=1953&rft.aulast=Ahrons&rft.aufirst=E.L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1979), pp. 64-67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Acworth97-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Acworth97_45-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Acworth97_45-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), p. 97</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis (1971), p. 172. quoting J. Pearson Pattinson, <i>The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, its Passenger Services, Rolling Stock, Locomotives, Gradients and Express Speeds,</i> (Cassell, 1896).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dendy Marshall (1968), p. 237.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1979), p. 118.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Heap and van Riemsdijk (1980), p. 78.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pratt (1921), pp. 1032–41.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pratt_1921,_pp._1038–39-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Pratt_1921,_pp._1038–39_52-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Pratt_1921,_pp._1038–39_52-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Pratt (1921), pp. 1038–39.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), 55.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), 46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), 49–51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), 55–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), Chapter 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2007), 75–77.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis, (1960), 209.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marshall (1963), p. 248.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bonavia (1987), p.19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ahrons (1953), vol. 5, pp. 62–65.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), p. 91.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burtt and Beckerlegge (1948).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ahrons (1953), vol. 5, p. 47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis (1979), pp. 98–99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rich (1996), 118.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gray (1977), pp. 86–87.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fryer (1997).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kidner (1984), p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'Return from Great Northern, Great Eastern, London and N.W., Great Western, Midland, S.E., London, Chatham and Dover, London, Brighton and S. Coast, and London and S.W. Railway Companies of Arrival at London Stations of Passenger Trains, as shown in Time-Tables, 1890', House of Commons. Papers Number: 151, 1890.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1977), p. 187.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company Ran Its First Special Sunday Cycle Train to Horley, Three Bridges, and East Grinstead This Week'. Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, 11 May 1901; 698.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'In the Tourist and Excursion Programme of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company Will Be Found Announced Cheap Week-end Tickets to Be Issued on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to Tall Places on the South Coast from Hastings to Portsmouth Inclusive, and to All Places in the Isle of Wight, Also to Dieppe, the Parisian's Favourite Seaside Resort.' Illustrated London News (Saturday, 15 July 1905) 106.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dendy Marshall (1968), p. 240.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Riley (1967), p. 8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradley (1974), pp. 60–61.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradley (1974), pp. 62–68.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis (1971), p. 199.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2008), p. 19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Acworth98-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Acworth98_81-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Acworth98_81-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), p. 98</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-82">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2008), pp. 21–22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2008), pp. 98–99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner, J.T. Howard (1978), p. 175.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-86">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 121, 232.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner, J.T. Howard (1978) p. 241 and Turner (1979), p. 154.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1979), p. 76.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moody (1968).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-grant-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-grant_90-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-grant_90-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-grant_90-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">The Electrified Electrification: a Pictorial View of Construction; Grant, S; Noodle Books, Southampton; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-906419-65-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-906419-65-3">978-1-906419-65-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sherrington (1928), vol. 2 p. 235.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marshall, (1963), p. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moody, (1968) pp. 6–7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sherrington (1928), vol. 2, p. 236.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson (1921).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richards (1923), p. 32.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moody, (1968), p. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-98"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-98">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 16–18, 292–95.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), pp. 285–88.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=1782">"Accident Archive:Accident at Falmer on 6th June 1851"</a>. 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Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 4. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-906899-03-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-906899-03-6"><bdi>0-906899-03-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Trains+in+Trouble%3A+Vol.+2.&rft.place=Redruth&rft.pages=4&rft.pub=Atlantic+Books&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=0-906899-03-6&rft.aulast=Trevena&rft.aufirst=Arthur&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=59">"Accident Archive: Accident at Norwood Junction on 1st May 1891"</a>. 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November 1977. p. 571.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Railway+Magazine&rft.atitle=Accident+at+Farlington%2C+1894&rft.volume=123&rft.issue=919&rft.pages=571&rft.date=1977-11&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Trevena-112"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Trevena_112-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Trevena_112-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTrevena1980" class="citation book cs1">Trevena, Arthur (1980). <i>Trains in Trouble: Vol. 1</i>. Redruth: Atlantic Books. pp. 14, 20–21. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-906899-01-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-906899-01-X"><bdi>0-906899-01-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Trains+in+Trouble%3A+Vol.+1.&rft.place=Redruth&rft.pages=14%2C+20-21&rft.pub=Atlantic+Books&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=0-906899-01-X&rft.aulast=Trevena&rft.aufirst=Arthur&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-113"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-113">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=6172">"Accident Archive: Accident at Keymer Junction on 23rd December 1899"</a>. 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Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 11. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-906899-37-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-906899-37-0"><bdi>0-906899-37-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Trains+in+Trouble%3A+Vol.+6&rft.place=Penryn&rft.pages=11&rft.pub=Atlantic+Books&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-906899-37-0&rft.aulast=Earnshaw&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEsbester2018" class="citation web cs1">Esbester, Mike (15 October 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/burns-awareness-past-present/">"Burns Awareness – past & present"</a>. <i>Railway Work, Life & Death</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 March</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Railway+Work%2C+Life+%26+Death&rft.atitle=Burns+Awareness+%E2%80%93+past+%26+present&rft.date=2018-10-15&rft.aulast=Esbester&rft.aufirst=Mike&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk%2Fburns-awareness-past-present%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hoole3-116"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hoole3_116-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hoole3_116-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoole1982" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Hoole" title="Ken Hoole">Hoole, Ken</a> (1982). <i>Trains in Trouble: Vol. 3</i>. Redruth: Atlantic Books. pp. 2, 19, 22. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-906899-05-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-906899-05-2"><bdi>0-906899-05-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Trains+in+Trouble%3A+Vol.+3&rft.place=Redruth&rft.pages=2%2C+19%2C+22&rft.pub=Atlantic+Books&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=0-906899-05-2&rft.aulast=Hoole&rft.aufirst=Ken&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALondon%2C+Brighton+and+South+Coast+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Httpwwwsignalboxorggallerylbschtm-117"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Httpwwwsignalboxorggallerylbschtm_117-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Httpwwwsignalboxorggallerylbschtm_117-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.signalbox.org/gallery/lbsc.htm">Signal Boxes of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marshall (1978), p. 189.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Turner (1978), p. 99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-120"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-120">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gordon (1910), pp. 159–60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-121"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-121">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradley (1974), pp. 64–65.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradley (1969), p. 173.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Baxter (1977), pp. 69–72.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis (1979), p. 104.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-125"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-125">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), p. 99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-126">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx (2005), 46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradley (1974), p. 126.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-128">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Riley (1967), p. 10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooper (1990), p. 46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ellis-130"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ellis_130-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ellis_130-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis (1979), p. 69.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-131"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-131">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gray (1977), p. 123.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), pp. 92–93.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis (1979), p. 200.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-134"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-134">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), p. 94).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-135"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-135">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bonavia (1987), pp. 16–17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-136"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-136">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooper (1990,) pp. 46–54.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-137"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-137">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooper (1990), pp. 55–64.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-138"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-138">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), pp. 91–92.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-measomvi-139"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-measomvi_139-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-measomvi_139-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Measom (1852), p. vi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-140"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-140">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">25 & 26 Vict. c. lxviii 30 June 1862,</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-141"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-141">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), p. 101.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-142"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-142">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Acworth (1888), p. 105.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-143"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-143">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoard (1974), p. 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-144"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-144">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreen2013" class="citation journal cs1">Green, Alan H. 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J. Billinton">R. J. Billinton</a> (1890–1904)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_B2_class" title="LB&SCR B2 class">B2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_B2_class" title="LB&SCR B2 class">B3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_B4_class" title="LB&SCR B4 class">B4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_C2_class" title="LB&SCR C2 class">C2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_D3_class" title="LB&SCR D3 class">D3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E3_class" title="LB&SCR E3 class">E3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E4_class" title="LB&SCR E4 class">E4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E5_class" title="LB&SCR E5 class">E5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LB%26SCR_E6_class" title="LB&SCR E6 class">E6</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/D._E._Marsh" title="D. E. Marsh">D. E. 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