Mark Davison published London to Brighton train line opened 175 years ago this week

A new era for local travellers dawned exactly 175 years ago next Tuesday. For on that day – July 12, 1841 – the first passenger-carrying trains started running on the partially completed London to Brighton railway line, writes John Capon.Just how many passengers were waiting for the first trains to arrive that morning at the station with the rather over-long – but strictly accurate – name, "Red-Hill and Reigate-Road", is not known. And how many of them, one...

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