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LB and &
* LB & SCR E2 Class, a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by Lawson Billington
To the east was the ramshackle LC & D Railway, on the west the up-market LB & SCRthe Brighton Line, which went to Worthing, the fashionable, expensive town the gentleman who found baby Jack was travelling to at the time ( and after which Jack was named ).
* LB & SCR E1 class, a 1874 British 0-6-0 steam locomotive
* Gladstone class, or LB & SCR B1 class, a series of steam locomotives of the 1880s, built by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
The East London Railway was created by the East London Railway Company, a consortium of six railway companies: the Great Eastern Railway ( GER ), the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ), the London, Chatham and Dover Railway ( LCDR ), the South Eastern Railway ( SER ), the Metropolitan Railway, and the Metropolitan District Railway.
* 7 December 1869: Initial line from ( then known as New Cross ) to opened, operated by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ).
Steam trains were initially operated by the GER, LB & SCR and the SER.
The LB & SCR used their LBSCR A1 Class Terrier locomotives, which William Stroudley designed partly with this line in mind.
It carried both passenger and goods trains ; the LB & SCR operated between Liverpool Street and Croydon, the SER introducing a service between and Liverpool Street from April 1880 until March 1884.
Metropolitan Railway services from St Mary's to ( SER ) and Metropolitan District Railway services from St Mary's to ( LB & SCR ) commenced on 1 October 1884.
On 6 October through services started from Hammersmith ( Hammersmith & City ) to New Cross ( SER ) and from ( MDR ) to New Cross ( LB & SCR ).
LB & SCR and GER services continued to run, and SER services recommenced on 3 December 1906.
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) constructed their own wharf and facilities on the east side of the river, and opened the Newhaven harbour railway station.
The railway also funded the dredging of the channel and other improvements to the harbour between 1850 and 1878, to enable it to be used by cross channel ferries, and in 1863 the LB & SCR and the Chemin de Fer de l ‘ Ouest introduced the Newhaven-Dieppe passenger service.
A year later an act enabled the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company ( LB & SCR ) to acquire and operate the line.
A branch ran from a junction at Horsted Keynes to Ardingly and Haywards Heath on the LB & SCR main line.
Also in 1857, the previously mentioned LB & HJR opened a direct line from Ardsley to Laisterdyke, near Bradford.
* On 27 November 1895, a local train hauled by LB & SCR Terrier No. 70 Poplar collided with the buffer stops.
In 1975, after Butlins Minehead holiday camp decided to modernise and refurbish, it was proposed to extract LMS Princess Coronation Class 6229 Duchess of Hamilton, purchased by Billy Butlin in 1966 along with LB & SCR A1 class Knowle ( transported out by road ), under an offer made by British Railways.
The line reached Havant in 1850, sparking a fierce war ( both legal and, at times, physical ) battle between the LB & SCR and the LSWR ( who managed the services over the independently-owned line ) over access rights to Portsmouth over the former's line.
Clapham Junction station opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L & SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) and the West London Extension Railway ( WLER ) as an interchange station for their lines.

LB and SCR
* LB & SCR E6 class, a British steam locomotive
* LB & SCR D2 class, a British LB & SCR locomotive

LB and early
With the growth of traffic during the 1880s and early 1890s, the LB & SCR began to be the subject of press criticism for poor timekeeping and slow trains, although it was never subjected to the levels of press and public obloquy accorded to the SER.
Nevertheless there were a number of serious accidents in the early years of the LB & SCR some of which were due to failures in communication.
Prior to grouping, with the development and implementation by competitors ( notably L & SWR, LB & SCR, various " Tube " companies ) and electric trams ) of electric traction in the early twentieth century, SECR planned to start electrifying its lines.
The LB & SCR moved the ' Down ' platform during the early 1850s when the line was quadrupled, and extended the island platform around 1864.
After displacement from their original workings out of London Bridge and London Victoria by more powerful locomotives from the D class and the early stages of the LB & SCR overhead electrification scheme, some representatives of the class were sold to other operators, while the majority of the remainder were put to work on branch lines in Sussex and on non-revenue earning work such as shunting.
No. 55 Stepney carrying the early LB & SCR ' Improved Engine Green ' livery

LB and first
The first two of these companies already had rail access to Battersea through their joint ownership of the West London Line with the LB & SCR.
The LB & SCR introduced the first all-Pullman train in the UK in December 1881 running from Victoria to Brighton, as the ' Pullman Limited '.
The Used Car Safety Ratings, published in 2008 by Monash University, found that first generation Astras ( LB / LC ) provide a " significantly worse than average " level of occupant safety protection in the event of an accident.
For the first few years of its existence, LB & SCR trains used the former L & GR lines from Corbett ’ s Lane into London, but by 1849 the viaducts had been widened sufficiently to allow the company its own dedicated tracks to approach the station.
Although the Midland Railway lines from Lancaster to Morecambe and Heysham had been the first to be converted using overhead lines, the LB & SCR lines eventually covered a far greater length of electrified track.
The first section of LB & SCR to be electrified was the South London Line connecting London Bridge with Victoria via Denmark Hill, which was opened on 1 December 1909.
The LB & SCR under Stroudley was one of the first railways in Britain to adopt the Westinghouse railway air brake on its rolling stock after 1877 in preference to the far less effective vacuum brakes employed by its neighbours.
During the first series of the first game of the year, Spikes made a blind side sack on Patriots QB Tom Brady, forcing a fumble which was recovered by Bills LB London Fletcher for a touchdown.
The three-district plan for OPS was proposed in amendment AM3142, introduced on the day the legislature first took up LB 1024.
Coach Leavitt was hired to his first NFL coaching job when he was hired by Jim Harbaugh to be the 49er's LB coach.
The idea of a Langmuir – Blodgett ( LB ) film was first proven feasible in 1917 when Dr. Irving Langmuir ( Langmuir, 1917 ) showed that single water-surface monolayers could be transferred to solid substrates.
The first part is < tt > LB </ tt >, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Lebanon.
* 2002-Los Angeles Avengers: Hopkins had a spectacular year, and won first team All-Arena honors, All-Ironman honors ( at both WR and LB ), and was voted " Ironman of the Year.
The formula of the LB medium was published in 1951 in the first paper of Bertani on lysogeny.

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