A partly successful attempt to develop the area as an upmarket suburbia for Brighton - like the nearby Dyke Branch.
Industrial development and farming.
Passenger Goods
Station Chalk Quarry Fryco Ronuk MB Metals Ltd
Panoramas
Passenger
The passenger train comes on scene
Pulls into the platform and stops
The train backs up to give clearance to run round and the loco pulls forward to start running round
Running round
The parcels van is moved to the bay
The service is suburban with frequent and short trains
The passenger train returns to Brighton, in model terms it returns to the fiddle yard
Goods
The goods arrives
Runs round
The loco moves the break van to the buffers
Next it move wagons off the private siding to the chalk quarry
Inbound wagons are left on the siding and out bound wagons on the loop
It clears the back siding of van three outbound and one to be returned.
Out bound vans are left on the loop
Inbound and the returned van are coupled up.
Vans are spotted where required along the back siding
The train is coupled up before moving off
Station
Station building
The private siding serving a (hard) chalk quarry
Fryco Mineral Water Factory active 1928-62. Received bottles, fruit, corks, and labels.
Dispatched lemon squash, orange squash, lemonade, sparkling grapefruit, tonic water, ginger beer,
& ‘Lemolyme’ and none alcoholic wines ginger, orange, port, raisin, elder, black current, & green ginger.
More details can be found at https://portsladehistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/frycos-rfry-co-victoria-road-portslade.html
Ronuk active 1902-60s. Received bottles, tins (from Barclay & Fry, Fishersgate, and latterly
the Metal Box Company, Portslade), beeswax, benguellan wax, carnauba wax.
Dispatched sanitary floor, dirsof (non-scratch cream), boot, household,
& red tile polishes, ballroom powder, carshine, and carwax.
For more information see https://portsladehistory.blogspot.com/2016/02/ronuk-of-portslade.html
For more details see https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/topics/topicbusi/factories/mb-metals/mb_metals_ltd-2
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