Rowan Halt railway station

Coordinates: 50°50′24″N 0°11′41″W / 50.8399°N 0.1947°W

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Rowan Halt
Site of Rowan Halt station
General information
Location	Hove, Brighton & Hove England
Platforms	1^[1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Southern Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
18 December 1933	Opened^[2]
1 January 1939	Closed

Rowan Halt railway station,^[3]^[4] was a railway station in Hove, in East Sussex, England which opened in 1933 and closed on 1 January 1939; the layout and curvature of Rowan Avenue indicates where the branch ran.^[5]

Location

The station served the Aldrington Estate (then being built by T. J. Braybon & Sons Ltd), and "enabled residents working in Brighton or Hove to return home for their cooked meal at lunchtime".^[5]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Aldrington		London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Brighton and Dyke Railway (1887-1939)		Golf Club Halt

References

^ H P White (1976). Forgotten Railways: South East England. ISBN 0-7153-7286-6.
^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 200. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
^ Harding, Peter A. The Dyke Branch Line. ISBN 0-9523458-5-4.
^ Clark, Paul (1976). The Railways of Devil's Dyke. Crown Press Keighley Ltd. ISBN 0-902844-35-0.
^ ^a ^b "Sussex Branch Lines - Two Branches and a Siding". Retrieved 9 September 2007.

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