It was featured on Coast - the track is definitely visible at low tide
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Devils Dyke Railway
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Only the concrete sleeper bases and I think only that the Rotingdean end at low water.
Norman Potting
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Apparently, it could, like, zap people and stuff....
H.G. Wells did live in Rottingdean I believe around the time that the seashore railway operated and there was a theory I read somewhere, once, that the contraption may have suggested the design of the Martian Tripods in "War of the Worlds".
Yes the line closed in 1939, not because of the War but because of competition from the buses. You can walk a bit of the line above the A27, but sadly not the terminus station which is part of a private farm.
The original line was at one stage planned to go over or through the top of the Dyke and descend the other side off to the west towards Steyning, or alternativly steeper down back towards the main line. Would have been expensive, and closed long before Beeching. As was the branch.
For some time they used a steam railcar on the branch, made by Sentinels who also made steam road wagons.
Theatre of Trees
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You can still see the route cut through the rocky bed right up to the walls of the Marina. At very low tides the concrete blocks are visible in the sand on the western side of the Marina too.
Nottseagull
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Electric tramlines over the sea, complete with supporting pylons? That's been photoshopped, an April Fools' Day prank, surely!
skipper734
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I am saddened by the lack of local knowledge of the history of the town of which BHA is named after. 
The curves of Amhurst Creasant Rowan Avenue (which had its station I believe where the Elm Drive shops are?) and then the walkable route by that pub (The Railway?) were where the train went. I think the train line went behind the road although it might be that the road was put over the train line but I could be wrong.
Nottseagull
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I can't believe how gullible some of the people are on this thread! Look at this photo (no
overhead lines), then the one from the shore; yes, they forgot to photo-edit them out!
overhead lines), then the one from the shore; yes, they forgot to photo-edit them out!
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You can still walk on the platform at Golf Club Halt if you can find it beneath the undergrowth. Also there is a deep cutting just north west of Skeleton Hovel.
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You can walk at least 2 miles from Hangleton to Skeleton Hovel.
Theatre of Trees
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I can't believe how gullible some of the people are on this thread! Look at this photo (no
overhead lines), then the one from the shore; yes, they forgot to photo-edit them out!
It's real, the archeological evidence is still there on the sea bed, see also http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume32/index4.htm for more images
BeardyChops
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