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  • Brighton’s Electric Railway – The seaside line that sparked a transport revolution

    Brighton’s Electric Railway – The seaside line that sparked a transport revolution

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    To the untrained eye, Brighton’s Volk’s Electric Railway may appear to be just another seaside tramway, a relic from the resort’s Victorian heyday. However, it is no less than Britain’s first electric railway, and the oldest in the world to be still running, and therefore of paramount international importance. Magnus Volk did not invent the…

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