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3 unusual facts about Hove railway station


Amberley Museum Railway

Brockham has a small siding on Platform 2, as well as a former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ticket office from Hove station.

Hove railway station

The original station building, dating from the station's opening in 1865, is on the south side of the line and to the east of the present ticket office and concourse, being separated from this by a long footbridge (a public right of way) linking the residential roads of Goldstone Villas and Hove Park Villas.

St Barnabas Church, Hove

It was built between 1882 and 1883 to serve residents of the newly developed streets to the south and west of Hove railway station, which had opened in 1865 and had stimulated growth in the previously undeveloped area between the Brunswick estate to the west and Cliftonville to the east.



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