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October 1842 and March 1843. Initially these locomotives were the responsibility of the civil engineer and his assistant, but this arrangement was ended after an unfavourable report on their safety in 1843. From 1842 the L&CR had pooled its locomotive stock with the
269:. A parliamentary committee of enquiry was established to consider the merits of all four schemes. The chairman of the committee moved that an Ordnance engineer should be appointed to survey all four routes. The proposal was agreed and a Captain Robert Alderson
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in 1823 to connect London "with the ports of
Shoreham (Brighton), Rochester (Chatham) and Portsmouth by a line of Engine Railroad" was largely ignored. However, about 1825 a company called The Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts & Somerset Railway employed
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Report, or essay, to illustrate the advantages of direct inland communication through Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hants: to connect the metropolis with the ports of
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Committee.
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of the L&BR and in April the company gave notice of withdrawal from the arrangement from
January 1846, when the pooled locomotives were divided between the companies.
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c. cxix) for the construction of the line was passed in July 1837, with an authorised capital of £2.4 million. The new company was also permitted to buy the track of the
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by road for what was, in the first year, an isolated stretch of railway. After the formation of the LBSCR the branch was successively extended to
Portsmouth, becoming
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was engaged to do the work. He recommended the adoption of the Rennie direct route after
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to survey a route to Brighton, but again the proposal came to nothing.
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857:(First ed.). London: BT Batsford Ltd. p. 138.
832:(First ed.). London: BT Batsford Ltd. p. 142.
1156:. Vol. 1 Origins and Formation. London: Batsford.
956:. Solihull: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society.
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495:branch was completed in May 1840, before the
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1011:Dendy Marshall, C. F.; Kidner, R.W. (1963).
285:, which had not been part of Rennie's plan.
1154:The London Brighton and South Coast Railway
665:Brighton, Croydon and Dover Joint Committee
393:Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Iron Railway
1129:The Locomotive Engine Popularly Explained
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383:London and Brighton Railway Act 1837
295:London and Brighton Railway Act 1837
746:Marshall/ Kidner (1963) pp. 193–194
697:Brighton Lewes and Hastings Railway
545:The railway employed the architect
535:Brighton Lewes and Hastings Railway
484:over the River Ouse near Balcombe.
113:, the other more direct route, via
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1238:Standard gauge railways in England
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1046:The London Brighton Line 1841–1977
650:. The last three locomotives were
281:as part of its projected route to
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1013:A history of the Southern Railway
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313:Parliament of the United Kingdom
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