==== Brighton East ====

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Brighton East is 4mm/ft using EM gauge track and depicts a Southern Region Rail terminus in the period loosely around 1998 to 2003 where 3rd Rail EMU’s prevail on passenger services. 

My son Matthew was a medical student in Brighton and came up with the old Kemp Town branch as a possible setting for a layout. What if it had retained some passenger service (this actually ceased in the 1933) and had never been shut (it closed to goods traffic in 1971), been electrified and then had a second tunnel bored to allow direct access to Lewes? 

This is not a prototypical rendition, the space was not available to do that, but it hopefully gives a flavour of the small space restricted terminus that was Kemp Town.
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Control is by NCE DCC, with point control using radio control servos. Couplings are Kadee using electromagnet uncouplers. 

The buildings are all scratch built and based on prototypes near to the old Kemp Town station site with the main structure being based on the Barry Building at Sussex General Hospital.

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Brighton East Photos

All Photos taken by Andy York

Credit as

Brighton East 
Exhibited by Dave Smith

Photograph by Andy York
Courtesy of BRM


For more details on how Brighton was built see the layout thread on RMweb:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/16217-brighton-east-em-third-rail/

Contact Details:
Dave Smith
30 Rimmington Road, Cowplain, Waterlooville, Hants, PO8 8UA

E-Mail:	kipford@ntlworld.com