The London and Brighton Railway (L&B) was incorporated in 1837. It ran from a junction with the London & Croydon Railway (L&C) at Norwood - which gave it access from London Bridge to the South Coast at Brighton. The railway opened in sections, since major earthworks delayed building the line in one piece, as follows: The London & Croydon Railway (L&C) was incorporated in 1835, and the line to West Croydon was opened June 5 1839. ... Norwood is the name of several places: In Australia: Norwood, South Australia, suburb of Adelaide Norwood, Tasmania, suburb of Launceston In Canada: Norwood, Ontario (near Peterborough) In the United States of America: Norwood, a neighborhood of the Bronx, New York Norwood, Colorado Norwood, Massachusetts Norwood, New Jersey Norwood, New York... The current London Bridge London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark. ... Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. ...
Brighton - Shoreham 12 May 1840 The locomotives and rolling stock had had to be taken by road for the opening
Norwood - Haywards Heath 12 July 1841
Haywards Heath - Brighton 12 September 1841
On July 27 1846 the L&B amalgamated with the L&C to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Shoreham is the name of several different places: Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex, England Shoreham, Kent in England Shoreham, Michigan in the U.S. Shoreham, New York in the U.S. Shoreham, Vermont in the U.S. Shoreham, Victoria in Australia Shoreham is also the name of a nuclear... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The LB&SCRs coat of arms, displayed above the entrance to Gipsy Hill railway station. ...
The Metropolitan Railway, the first section of the London Underground, initially ran between Paddington (Bishop's Bridge), now just Paddington, and Farringdon Street, a temporary station just north-west of the present Farringdon station, and was the world's first urban underground passenger-carrying railway.
The lack of lines in south London is sometimes attributed to the geology of that area, the region being almost one large aquifer; additionally, it is impossible for cut and cover lines to go under the River Thames.
Another reason is that during the great period of tube-building in the early 20th century south London was already well served by the efficiently-run suburban lines of the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, then being electrified, which obviated Underground expansion into those areas.
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