The Extraordinary Daddy-Long-Legs Railway of Brighton

by Martin Easdown

The unique, but sadly short-lived, Brighton & Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway must have presented quite an amazing spectacle, even during those late Victorian days of engineering excellence. Affectionately known as the 'Daddy-Long-Legs', 'spider car' or 'sea car', the railway resembled a piece of seaside pier that had broken away and was moving by itself through the sea. Although closed over a hundred years ago, interest in the Daddy-Long-Legs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445689359
• ISBN13: 9781445689357
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages