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
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Volk’s Electric railway and the fabulously eccentric Seaside Railway, Brighton
The Brighton Sea Railway
A sunny summer’s afternoon in Brighton
The tragedy of West Pier, Brighton beach, Brighton
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A sunny day by the seaside at Brighton – beach views and carousels
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Dungeness old railways, lighthouses and steam trains
