I love this kind of mad Victorian stuff - check out Volk's sea railway which ran for nearly three miles in the sea along Brighton's coastline.

Not surprisingly, it lasted less than seven years before being scrapped - which is rather a shame because it looked a mad ride.

Volk's Brighton to Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway



Happily, the nearly-as-eccentric Volk’s Electric Railway remains open - now the oldest remaining operating electric railway in the world - running for a mile and a quarter along Brighton's beach.

Volk’s Electric Railway, Brighton