The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

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Continuing his survey of the main railway termini in Imperial London in 1901, Arthur H. Beavan had this to say about the The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway:

Victoria is also the West-end home of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (438 miles). (Its City station is at London Bridge.)

This terminus is next to that of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway was the original line to the low-level Crystal Palace station from its London Bridge terminus; but for many years past it has also reached the same station from Victoria by another route, via Gipsy Hill, whence it is only a short walk through the London, Chatham and Dover Railway high-level station to the main entrance of the Palace.

Throughout its system the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway runs through a beautiful part of England, and, on the whole, few short lines are so popular.

Its station at Victoria is superior to that of its neighbour, and, except on Bank Holidays, deals with a different class of people, conveying them to Goodwood, Epsom, Portsmouth, Hastings, Eastbourne, and the ever-popular Brighton, its special protegee, for which it caters with its "Brighton, Limited," its beautiful drawing-room and dining-room Pullmans, and other trains de luxe.

It has also a South Coast Express, by which a train leaving Hastings at noon, travelling via St. Leonards and Eastbourne, reaches Brighton in about an hour, and shortly afterwards starts for Portsmouth town and harbour, via Chichester, doing the trip in two hours and forty minutes.

Probably the most sumptuous of any of the Royal trains is possessed by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

It carries only 130 persons, and has five carriages, each 52 feet long, the Royal "coach" being virtually a drawing-room on wheels.

It is about 20 feet long, and 8 feet 9 inches wide, and so modelled upon its frame that it overhangs the wheels of the three pair-wheeled bogies upon which it is carried.

It contains not only what used to be called the "Princess's saloon," but, divided only by a sliding door, a similar, but smaller saloon, 14 feet 8 inches long, prettily furnished with lounges and smoking-chairs for the use of the Prince and his suite.

There is also an attendant's compartment and sumptuous lavatory.

Twenty-six persons can travel in this one vehicle.

Next: Locomotive London in 1900: The Great Central Railway: Marylebone Station.