Trains run daily from Good Friday to Sunday 14th September...............Southend Car 9 moves to a new home in Hassocks..............Check the weather on Brighton seafront with our Madeira Drive WEBCAM link..........Build your own Volk's Car, see Models link for details........Check out the popular winter talks programme on the News Page...........
volk's electric railway

In 1883 Magnus Volk opened an electric powered railway along the seafront at Brighton. Although not quite the first example of electric traction in the world it was certainly the first proper electric railway in Britain. Today it holds the deserved position of being the oldest remaining operating electric railway in the world.
This website, supported by the Volk’s Electric Railway Association (V-E-R-A), takes you on a tour of the railway from construction to the present day. For further information see the links page or join VERA and support this unique and important railway.
Southend 9 moves to Hassocks - for more click Here

Magnus Volk at his desk
Special Feature........Volk's into the 21st century.................
Two photo albums showing the construction of The Halfway Deviation, and a visit to Volk's 2006.
This website has no connection with either Brighton & Hove City Council or the management of Volk’s Electric Railway. Any views expressed within the pages of this website are therefore not attributable to either of these groups unless stated otherwise. For further information about this site please contact the webmaster.