Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway,1897

A short clip from the 1890's of probably the strangest (unique?)railway ever built, off the shore of Southern England.
It ran between 1896 and 1901,and though popular was never financially viable and was sadly scrapped.

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Music

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• Seatrain
• Brighton
• Railway
• 1897
• Sea-Railway
• Electric
• -Train
• Volks-Electric-Railway
• Victorian-film

[3Deity]

The bizarrest thing! Of course if they made it today it would be a souless glass domed blob (see the Eye360!) but this is the craziest thing. Its similar to the vehicle that went from Penzance to St.Michael's Mount.

[ARRISIPPY]

@3Deity Love the Victorians' "anything is possible" attitude, building with a few navvies and a couple of donkeys. I was on the Lynton=Lynmouth cliff railway recently...runs on water! Amazing. Don't know anything about the Penzance thing you mentioned..what era?

[freeflightbrighton]

Very nice, where you fins that ?

[ARRISIPPY]

@freeflightbrighton A clip off of BBC's "Coast"....turned out that allthough it was over 110 years old it was still under copyright! Reason being was the chap who recorded it was very young at the time and didn't die until the 60's,so it was still unnder the 50 year artistic copyright. Shoved it on anyway and have had no complaints....if I was him I'd be pleased it's out there rather than in some dusty old archive.

[3Deity]

@ARRISIPPY I lived in Cornwall for 2.5 years. They have a custom built amphibious craft now but I saw in a film 25 years ago a diesel powered craft that looked like a section of pier with caterpillar tracks on the bottom. It left service in the 70s I think. The castle owned it, but it was featured in a 1960's 'youth' film, it might have had someone semi famous in but it was a long time ago! :o)

[penninefilms]

Wow this railway would have been very popular if it was still open.

[freeflightbrighton]

Glad you put it up

[dvdp21]

Thanks for sharing! It's definitely interesting to see that tram in action. :)