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Old Shoreham Road, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, BN43 5TF

Thanks to a grant from the South East England Development Agency, Sustrans created this new link from the end of the Downs Link bridleway to the Adur riverside path. This involved filling in a deep ditch and building a new section of the path with safety railings.

Part of the new Waterside Development located to the north of the railway bridge. The old buffers in the foreground are a reminder of the former Shoreham-Christ's Hospital branch railway that operated here from 1861-1966 and is now the Downslink.

Part of new extension to Downs Link bridleway linking the route with the Adur riverside path and Shoreham's new Ropetackle development.

New waterside footpath providing a link between the Downslink and the Ropetackle development running alongside the new Waterfront Development.

On the Downs Link path leading north of Shoreham

Opposite the car park for the Swiss Cottage.

The rear view of this, Image where the vegetation has now been cleared after the extension of the Downs Link path was built between the old Toll Bridge and the Ropetackle development. The Horsham-Shoreham line opened in 1861 and was closed in 1966 except for a small section between Shoreham and Beeding Cement Works that remained open until 1981.

On the former trackbed of the Brighton-Horsham branch line which was closed in the 1960s though the track from Shoreham to the cement works at Beeding remained in use until lifted in the early 1980s. This path takes you to the remains of an old bridge but nowhere else.

One of the units on the Riverbank Industrial Estate deals with the dismantling of old petrol pumps. This is the storage yard to the rear, taken from the old railway embankment with the River Adur beyond and Lancing College Chapel in the distance.

This is the embankment that took the line away from the river then over the A283 before joining the West Coastway line. The route opened in 1861 and closed in 1966 though the section between here and Beeding Cement Works remained open until 1981. Much of the embankment has been cleared making you wonder whether it will be removed in the future as following the success of the Ropetackle development there are talks of expanding the riverside and developing the former industrial units that occupied the space between the two railways and the river, some of which can still be seen to the left. The building on the right is Bridge View a recent development built on a former caravan site.