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Holland Road, HOVE, BN3 1WA

Holland Road's southern end begins on the A259 and northern end ends just over the railway bridge with its junction with Lyndhurst Road as seen in the picture. In fact it originally ended at the brick wall to the left of the picture as the road originally served the first Hove station that was built in 1840 to the east of this picture. This closed in 1880 with the land around becoming a goods yard. However, another station, Holland Road Halt was built below the brick wall and opened in 1905 and remained in use until it was shut in 1956. The entrance was on the very left of the picture and required passengers to walk down a flight of steps to the wooden platforms. Nothing now remains of the halt.

The only reminder of a railway coal yard that once existed on this site. The railway line is out of the picture to the right, a balustrade on Holland Road bridge is just visible. The arches were originally used to stable the horses of the yard but now are boarded up. The coal yard lasted until the early 1970s and the area is now an industrial estate and home to a DIY, bathroom and carpet warehouse.

Houses and flats on the western side of the road as it heads towards the railway bridge. Number 136 is Jasmine Court, the larger of the two buildings. Both buildings were built on the site of a former optical works. The railway bridge at the top of the slope marks an entrance to a former station, the original Hove one which was here from 1840 to 1863 and later Holland Road Halt which closed around 1955.

Opened in 1905 by the London Brighton & South Coast Railway on the line from Brighton to Portsmouth, this station was adjacent to the site of Hove's first railway station, immediately behind the camera position. See Image In turn, this station, which had two parallel platforms built of timber, closed in 1956. Access was down steps from the Holland Road overbridge. View west towards the current Hove station and Portsmouth. No trace apparently remains.

Viewed from the junction with Cromwell Road, the B2120.

On Cromwell Road

Viewed across the flat roofs of the garages in Cromwell Court. Goodwood Court is on the corner of Cromwell Road and Palmeira Place.

Carrying the northern part of Holland Road which extends right down to the seafront over the West Coastway Line towards the junction with Lyndhurst. The original Hove station once existed beyond the parapet to the left but when it moved to its current site the station was downgraded and renamed Holland Road Halt until it closed in 1956.

Opened in 1840 by the London & Brighton Railway on what is today the line from Brighton to Portsmouth, this station closed in 1880. View east towards Brighton. After closure to passengers, this site was used as a goods station until the 1970s. The original station building would have been where the small tree now is.

The builders merchants lie in what was once a railway coal siding with just the arches beyond the store a reminder of its former usage.