The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway

Volume 1 in this comprehensive history of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway which dominated the southern scene until it was merged into the Southern Railway in 1923. Chapters in this volume cover the early years — the founding of the Croyden, Brighton and South Eastern Railways, the London & Croyden, the London & Greenwich, the London & Brighton, the first years of the Croyden and Brighton Companies, the opening of the South Eastern Railway and its effect, the Bricklayers Arms’ Branch, the Shoreham & Chichester Line, extensions to the east and west, the atmospheric power phase and line to Epsom, general developments from 1844-46, and the formation of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway.