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Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway
The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway was a unique coastline railway in Brighton, England that ran through the shallow coastal waters of the English Channel between 1896 and 1901.〔Coast. BBC2 programme. Transmitted May 6, 2013〕
==Background and construction==
Magnus Volk, its owner, designer and engineer, had already been successful with the more conventional Volk's Electric Railway, which had then not been extended east of Paston Place. Facing unfavourable geography, Volk decided to construct a line through the surf from a pier at Paston Place to one at Rottingdean. This was also home to Volk's Seaplane Station which was used by his son George Herbert Volk.
The railway itself consisted of two parallel gauge tracks, billed as gauge, the measurement between the outermost rails.〔(Volk's Brighton to Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway )〕 The tracks were laid on concrete sleepers mortised into the bedrock. The single car used on the railway was a pier-like building which stood on four -long legs. The car weighed . Propulsion was by electric motor. It was officially named ''Pioneer'', but many called it ''Daddy Long-Legs''. Due to regulations then in place, a qualified sea captain was on board at all times, and the car was provided with lifeboats and other safety measures.
Construction took two years from 1894 to 1896. The railway officially opened 28 November 1896, but was nearly destroyed by a storm the night of 4 December. Volk immediately set to rebuilding the railway including the ''Pioneer'', which had been knocked on its side, and it reopened in July 1897.
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