Sussex History - a different view

Brighton Station Cab Road

The original station was built before the bridge and Queens Road. 
Cabs had to climb Trafalgar Street, but the top section was and is too steep for horses so a cab road was built along the side of the station, It turned to raise the last part along side the arrivals platform
This was later covered over by the 1882 extensions.

The entrance to the cab road in Trafalgar Street.

Inside of the Cab Road, looking at the entrance doors from Trafalgar Street.

Looking up the Cab Road, ruts in cobbles from the metal tyred wheels. 
On the right are the brick surrounds to the bases of the cast iron columns supporting the Train Shed.

One of the Train Shed Columns falls over the Cab Road. This massive girder supports the foot.

The turning point in the Cab Road, the advent of horseless carriages, which could not turn in this restricted area, led to the fall into disuse.

Above the turn, the arches are bricked in, at the foot of these can be seen the wear in the brickwork where the Cabs waited for the arrival of trains.

The point where the Cab Road narrows to single file, at the right is where reinforcement is made for the lower end of the Goods Tunnel, which emerges under this point, the next picture shows this.

Where the Goods Tunnel ends in the wall of the Cab Road.

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