Rowan Halt railway station

Rowan Halt
Site of Rowan Halt station
General information
Location	Hove, Brighton & Hove England
Platforms	1 [1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Southern Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
18 December 1933	Opened [2]
1 January 1939	Closed
Location

Rowan Avenue junction with Elm Drive

Rowan Halt railway station, ^{[3] [4]} was a railway station in Hove, in East Sussex, England which opened in 1933 and closed on 1 January 1939; the layout and curvature of Rowan Avenue indicates where the branch ran. ^[5]

Location

The station served the Aldrington Estate (then being built by T. J. Braybon & Sons Ltd), and "enabled residents working in Brighton or Hove to return home for their cooked meal at lunchtime". ^[5]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Aldrington		London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Brighton and Dyke Railway (1887-1939)		Golf Club Halt

References

1. H P White (1976). Forgotten Railways: South East England. ISBN   0-7153-7286-6.
2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 200. ISBN   1-85260-508-1. R508.
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. "Sussex Branch Lines - Two Branches and a Siding" . Retrieved 9 September 2007.

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