Golf Club Halt railway station (England)

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Golf Club Halt
Golf Club Platform on the disused Dyke line.jpg
Golf Club Halt station
General information
Location Hove, Brighton & Hove
England
Grid reference TQ267093
Platforms1 [1]
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Brighton and Dyke Railway [2]
Pre-grouping London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Key dates
1891Opened
1 January 1917Closed
26 July 1920Reopened
1 January 1939Closed
Location
Golf Club Halt railway station (England)
Dyke Railway Trail sign Dyke Railway Trail sign.jpg
Dyke Railway Trail sign

Golf Club Halt railway station, [3] [4] was a railway station in Hove, in East Sussex, England which opened in 1891 and closed in 1939. [5] The station served the Brighton & Hove Golf Club, established in 1887. [5] The platform is still in situ, buried in undergrowth on private farmland.

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Rowan Halt   London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Brighton and Dyke Railway
(1887-1939)
  The Dyke

References

  1. H P White (1976). Forgotten Railways: South East England. ISBN   0-7153-7286-6.
  2. J T Howard Turner (1977). The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Volume 1 Origins and Foundation. ISBN   0-7134-0275-X.
  3. Harding, Peter A. The Dyke Branch Line. ISBN   0-9523458-5-4.
  4. Clark, Paul (1976). The Railways of Devil's Dyke. Crown Press Keighley Ltd. ISBN   0-902844-35-0.
  5. 1 2 "Sussex Branch Lines - Two Branches and a Siding" . Retrieved 9 September 2007.

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