Brighton Station's Cab Road ran alongside the station's original eastward exterior wall. The route was bridged-over when the station building was extended outwards to the east, and new arched units were built on its other side.

Brighton Station's Cab Road was the original route for horsedrawn carriages to get up to the level of the station's passenger platforms from Trafalgar Street. It ran alongside the station's original Eastward exterior wall, and seems to have been a feature of the original 1841 station.

The white retaining wall beyond the station (roughly centre of the picture) represents the area boundary of the Lower Goods Yard at this time. The Lower Yard was extended over many years, but the boundary with Trafalgar Street remained right up until the creation of Trafalgar Place and Mocatta House in the 1990's.

Brighton Station Including Train Sheds is a Grade II* listed building in Brighton and Hove, The City of Brighton and Hove, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.

Brighton Station opened in May 1840, was renamed Brighton Central until 1935 when it returned to 'Brighton'

With over 14 million passenger entries and exits in 2022/23, Brighton is the busiest station in East Sussex, the second busiest in South East England, and the seventh-busiest station in the country outside London.

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However, Brighton’s hills are steep and the valley was full of expensive housing. Sixteen sites were proposed. The railway company finally put the station on a plateau cut into the cliff-face, on the outskirts of the 1840s town.

Brighton railway station stands on a man-made plateau at the top of Trafalgar Street. It opened for use on May 11th 1840.

Railway station. The original station, of which only the forebuilding remains in part, is of 1841 by David Mocatta; it was enlarged, and the platforms extended, in 1852-4; the train sheds date from 1882-3 and were designed by HE Wallis, and the canopy …