Bungalow Town Halt was a
small railway station in what is now
Shoreham Beach
Shoreham Beach is a Local Nature Reserve in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is owned and managed by Adur District Council.
The beach has vegetated shingle, which is an internationally rare habitat, with flora including yellow horned poppy, ...
,
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...
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Bungalow Town had started in the 1870s as a series of converted railway carriages on the shingle spit shielding the
River Adur
The Adur ( or ) is a river in Sussex, England; it gives its name to the Adur district of West Sussex. The river, which is long, was once navigable for large vessels up as far as Steyning, where there was a large Saxon port, but by the 11th ce ...
..It was opened in 1910 and closed at the start of 1933. The station reopened as Shoreham Airport on 1 July 1935, serving
Shoreham Airport to the north of the railway line until 15 July 1940.
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References
Disused railway stations in West Sussex
Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1910
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1933
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1935
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1940
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