Lewes Road Railway Station
in 1962
See page 7 of The Round Hill Reporter June 2016
The picture above shows the platforms of the long gone station just beside the building which now houses Pavilions (Richmond House, at the bottom of Richmond Road). In the centre you can see the beginning of the viaduct as it heads across the Lewes Road (just to the south of the buildings on the Gyratory) on its way to Hartington Road Halt and the tunnel under Elm Grove School. Trains came out of the tunnel just to the east of Queens Park, into the Kemp Town goods yard and station where the Freshfield industrial estate is now.
Below the viaduct crosses the Lewes Road. The Nestles Milk advert is at the bottom of Bear Road, and the view is looking into town. The buildings on the right are where the Gyratory now stands. The castellated tower once formed the grand entrance to the Extra-mural cemetery. The Kemp Town branch was opened in 1869 in order to stop a rival railway company building a London-Lewes-Kemp Town line. The Lewes Rd station opened in 1873, offering half-hourly services to Kemp Town and Brighton mainline stations. It closed to passengers in 1933 but goods trains used it until 1971. 1983 saw the last of the viaduct come down.
This page was last updated by Ted on 19-Apr-2026