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Few people would associate Brighton with heavy industry, yet the London and Brighton built one of the first railway-owned locomotive building factories on a site next to the station. It built its first steam locomotive in 1852 and continued to do so in Southern Railway days.

During World War II it built LMS type 4-6-0 freight locomotives for the War Department .

After nationalisation, Brighton carried out a large part of new engine production for the Southern Region . However under the modernisation of British Railways in 1954 it was passed over and it closed in 1962 .


REFERENCE

  • Larkin, E.J., Larkin, J.G., (1988) ''The Railway Workshops of Great Britain 1823-1986,'' Macmillan Press