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Kemp Town railway station, sometimes referred to as Kemptown railway station, was a terminus station in Kemptown, Brighton (now part of the city of Brighton and Hove), East Sussex, England, on a (now closed) branch line which terminated at Kemp Town station. This line branched off the East Coastway Line a short distance from the Ditchling Road tunnel, between London Road and Moulsecoomb stations. The branch line and all its stations are no longer extant. == History == The station was located in the Kemptown area of the town, which derives its name from Kemp Town, a 19th-century housing development in the east of the area, approximately two miles to the east of the centre of Brighton.〔(History of Kemptown )〕 Because of rivalries between the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and London, Chatham and Dover Railway, the LB&SCR decided in 1869 to build a short but expensive branch line from Brighton railway station to Kemptown, chiefly as a blocking move to prevent another line being laid into the town. The branch line with its costly viaducts and tunnel never paid its way, being twice as long as the equivalent journey by road. Due to WWI the LB&SCR closed the line to passenger traffic in 1917, but reinstated the services in 1919. The branch line and its remaining stations finally closed to passenger traffic in 1933 and to freight in 1971, having been used as a "Brighton East" freight depot to help reduce the work of the main depot sited near the main Brighton Station.〔Brighton to Eastbourne by Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Middleton Press 1985 ISBN 0-906520-16-9〕 The final use of the line was made on 26 June 1971 when a special passenger train service operated at hourly intervals during the daytime to give the public a last opportunity to travel over it. Hartington Road Halt operated for only five years, being opened on 1 January 1906 and closing April 1911.〔Plate 30, Brighton to Eastbourne by Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Middleton Press 1985 ISBN 0-906520-16-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kemp Town railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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