{"id":310,"date":"2008-04-18T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-04-18T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T16:14:00","slug":"the-brighton-sea-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-brighton-sea-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brighton Sea Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/daddy-long-legs-05.jpg\" alt=\"The Brighton Sea Railway\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been sent an interesting YouTube animation of one of the most bonkers railways ever built &#8211; Volk&#8217;s Brighton to Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway.<\/p>\n<p>This mad piece of Victorian eccentricity saw what amounted to a part-submerged moving pier travelling through the sea from Brighton to Rottingdean. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/daddy-long-legs-02.jpg\" alt=\"The Brighton Sea Railway\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whole venture lasted less than seven years, but you can see a short animation of the electric railway tram, &#8216;Pioneer,&#8217; which was officially classified as a ship and had to be piloted by a trained sea captain!<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eU_PMGX6tso?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been sent an interesting YouTube animation of one of the most bonkers railways ever built &#8211; Volk&#8217;s Brighton to Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway. This mad piece of Victorian &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[90,1],"tags":[115,30],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-railways","category-stuff","tag-brighton","tag-sea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/daddy-long-legs-05.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}