Editing Hove (section)

== Transport ==
{{main|Transport in Brighton and Hove}}
Hove has several [[Great Britain road numbering scheme#A roads|A-roads]]. The [[A259 road|A259]] runs along Kingsway, forming the main seafront road in Hove. The A270 Old Shoreham Road, another major west–east route further north, was originally part of the [[A27 road|A27 trunk road]] before the Brighton bypass was built. The A2023 runs north from the A259 through central Hove and West Blatchington, meeting the A2038 on the edge of Hangleton and continuing to a junction with the A23 London–Brighton road. Other main routes, all with [[Great Britain road numbering scheme#Other classifications|B-road status]], include Grand Avenue and The Drive (B2185), Cromwell Road and Davigdor Road (B2120) and New Church Road, Church Road and Western Road (B2066).<ref name="HighwaysMap">{{cite web|url=https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/parking-and-travel/roads-and-highways/highway-search-information-map|title=Highway search information map|publisher=[[Brighton and Hove City Council]]|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518150301/https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/parking-and-travel/roads-and-highways/highway-search-information-map|archive-date=18 May 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="EncH&Pv2p119–120">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, pp. 119–120.}}</ref>

There were {{convert|34.28|mi|km}} of roads in Hove borough in 1906, rising to {{convert|74|mi|km}} in 1948. Even in the latter year some were still paved with wood.<ref name="EncH&Pv11p32">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 11, p. 32.}}</ref>

===Buses===
[[File:Conway Street Bus Garage, Conway Street, Hove (March 2020) (4).JPG|thumb|[[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company]] has a depot and workshop at Conway Street.]]
Many bus routes serve central Hove, and Church Road/New Church Road and Blatchington Road/Portland Road are important bus corridors.<ref name="BusStopMap">{{cite web|url=https://images-brightonhove.passenger-website.com/2022-04/Hove%20Centre%20Bus%20Stops%20updated%20210422.pdf|title=Hove centre bus stops|date=April 2022|publisher=[[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Ltd]]|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807155321/https://images-brightonhove.passenger-website.com/2022-04/Hove%20Centre%20Bus%20Stops%20updated%20210422.pdf|archive-date=7 August 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>  Most services are operated by [[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove]], a bus company which has been owned by the [[Go-Ahead Group]] since November 1993.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p10">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, p. 106.}}</ref>  Routes include the 1 and 1X to [[Whitehawk]] and [[Mile Oak]], the 2 to [[Shoreham-by-Sea]], [[Steyning]] and [[Rottingdean]], the 5, 5A and 5B to the [[Hangleton]] estate and the [[Hollingbury]] and [[Patcham]] estates in Brighton, the 6 to [[Brighton railway station]], the 7 to [[Brighton Marina]], the 21 to the Goldstone Valley estate and Brighton Marina, the 25 to the Universities of [[University of Sussex|Sussex]] and [[University of Brighton|Brighton]], the 46 to [[Southwick, West Sussex|Southwick]] and Hollingbury and the 49 to [[Moulsecoomb]].<ref name="BusStopMap"/>   [[The Big Lemon]] operates a circular route serving Portslade, the Knoll Estate and Hangleton<ref name="BigLemon16">{{cite web|url=https://thebiglemon.com/16-1/|title=Route 16/16A|year=2023|publisher=[[The Big Lemon]]|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804024855/https://thebiglemon.com/16-1/|archive-date=4 August 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> and another serving Knoll Estate and Hangleton and continuing to Brighton railway station, central Brighton, Brighton Marina, Rottingdean and [[Saltdean]].<ref name="BigLemon47">{{cite web|url=https://thebiglemon.com/47-1/|title=Route 47/47A|year=2023|publisher=[[The Big Lemon]]|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330040622/https://thebiglemon.com/47-1/|archive-date=30 March 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>  [[Stagecoach South]] operates the [[Coastliner 700]] route through Hove, serving Brighton to the east and Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing and [[Littlehampton]] to the west, with connections to [[Bognor Regis]], [[Chichester]] and [[Portsmouth]].<ref name="Coastliner700">{{cite web|url=https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south/unpublished-coastliner|title=The Coastliner 700, your sunshine service to the sea!|publisher=[[Stagecoach South]]|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014052038/https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south/unpublished-coastliner|archive-date=14 October 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>  Several [[National Express Coaches|National Express]] coaches on route 025 (Worthing–London) serve Hove each morning, calling at a stop on the A259 near the [[King Alfred Leisure Centre]].<ref name="NEX025">{{cite web|url=https://timetables.nationalexpress.com/routes/NX/025/Worthing-London/I|title=025|publisher=[[National Express Coaches|National Express]]|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323075135/https://timetables.nationalexpress.com/routes/NX/025/Worthing-London/I|archive-date=23 March 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

Hove's first bus service ran from the Ship Inn on Hove Street to [[Black Rock (Brighton and Hove)|Black Rock]] near [[Rottingdean]] and started on 11 May 1853. Seven return journeys ran daily. Local businessman A.C. Elliott became a licensed bus operator in 1879 with ten vehicles, 12 conductors and 13 drivers, running services between Hove and central Brighton. Other operators soon started running buses in competition, and the Hove Commissioners "[kept] a tight rein on things" by issuing and renewing licences once a year. From 1901, horse-drawn buses began to be replaced with petrol-driven vehicles and, from 1908, by experimental electric buses as well.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p22–23">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, pp. 22–23.}}</ref>  [[Thomas Tilling]] became a major operator in Hove after gaining licences for Portslade–Brighton routes in 1912.   He operated from premises on Holland Road until new garages and offices were built on Conway Street in 1916.<ref name="EncH&Pv14p24–26">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 14, pp. 24–26.}}</ref>  The company was renamed the Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Company in 1935,<ref name="EncH&Pv2p105">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, p. 105.}}</ref> and the Conway Street premises were rebuilt in 1939–40 to the design of H.R. Starkey.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p107">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, p. 107.}}</ref>  By 1927 [[Southdown Motor Services]] was another major local operator: Hove Council licensed 100 of its vehicles for local and longer-distance work, and the company's main works was at Portslade. It became part of the [[National Bus Company (UK)|National Bus Company]] in 1968 along with the Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Company. As a result, the latter's works at Conway Street closed in 1969.<ref name="EncH&Pv13p83–84">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 13, pp. 83–84.}}</ref>  The companies separated again in 1986 and the former Tilling operations became the [[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company]], now the city's main operator. The Conway Street premises were retained as a bus garage.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p104–107">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, pp. 104–107.}}</ref>

===Railways===
[[File:Main Building at Hove Railway Station, Station Approach, Hove (NHLE Code 1187584) (November 2015).JPG|thumb|right|Hove railway station is in central Hove at the top of Goldstone Villas.]]
The first railway station named Hove opened at the top of Holland Road on 12 May 1840 on the Brighton to Shoreham-by-Sea line (now the [[West Coastway line]]). It closed on 1 March 1880, but a new station named [[Holland Road Halt railway station|Holland Road Halt]] opened on approximately the same site on 3 September 1905. Its two timber platforms were still in place when it closed permanently on 7 May 1956.<ref name="EncH&Pv7p64">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 7, p. 64.}}</ref>

The present [[Hove railway station]], {{convert|1|mi|35|chain|km}} west of Brighton station, opened at the top of Goldstone Villas on 1 October 1865 with the name Cliftonville; it was renamed West Brighton in 1879, Hove and West Brighton in 1894, and received its present name in 1895.<ref name="HoveStation">{{Harvnb|Body|1984|p=115.}}</ref>  Further west, {{convert|1|mi|71|chain|km}} from Brighton, [[Aldrington railway station]] opened with the name Dyke Junction Halt on 3 September 1905, taking the name Aldrington Halt from 17 June 1932 when the platforms were resited and rebuilt.<ref name="AldringtonStation">{{Harvnb|Body|1984|pp=31–32.}}</ref>  [[Portslade railway station]], serving Aldrington and West Hove as well as Portslade village and Portslade-by-Sea, opened with the line on 12 May 1840 but was closed between 1847 and 1857. Its original station buildings survive, but goods facilities were withdrawn in 1968. It is {{convert|2|mi|73|chain|km}} west of Brighton. There is a level crossing at the west end.<ref name="HoveStation"/>  All three stations are managed and served by [[Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)|Southern]].<ref name="HOV">{{cite web|url=https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/station-information/HOV/Hove|title=Hove (HOV)|publisher=[[Govia Thameslink Railway]] Ltd|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603140617/https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/station-information/HOV/Hove|archive-date=3 June 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="AGT">{{cite web|url=https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/station-information/AGT/Aldrington|title=Aldrington (AGT)|publisher=[[Govia Thameslink Railway]] Ltd|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603151436/https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/station-information/AGT/aldrington|archive-date=3 June 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="PLD">{{cite web|url=https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/station-information/PLD/Portslade|title=Portslade (PLD)|publisher=[[Govia Thameslink Railway]] Ltd|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323233522/https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/station-information/PLD/Portslade|archive-date=23 March 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

As of 2024, during the off-peak Monday -Saturday, [[Hove railway station|Hove station]] sees half hourly services to [[London Victoria station|London Victoria]] (via [[Haywards Heath railway station|haywards heath]]), at least quarter hourly service to [[Brighton railway station|Brighton]], services every half an hour to [[Southampton]], at least half hourly to [[Littlehampton railway station|Littlehampton]] and at least hourly services to [[Bognor Regis railway station|Bognor Regis]] and [[Portsmouth & Southsea railway station|Portsmouth and Southsea]].

Immediately west of Aldrington station, the [[Brighton and Dyke Railway]] branched off and headed north through West Blatchington and Hangleton to a terminus at [[Devil's Dyke, Sussex|Devil's Dyke]] on the [[South Downs]].  [[Golf Club Halt railway station (England)|Golf Club Halt]] opened in 1891 to serve Brighton and Hove Golf Course, and [[Rowan Halt railway station|Rowan Halt]] opened in 1933 on Rowan Avenue to serve the Hangleton and West Blatchington areas. The {{convert|3|mi|40|chain|km|adj=on}} branch line opened on 1 September 1887; it closed permanently on 31 December 1938, having already been closed for three years from 1917.<ref name="AldringtonStation"/>

The [[Cliftonville Curve]] opened in 1879 to connect the West Coastway line with the [[Brighton main line]], allowing trains to travel between the lines without reversing at Brighton station. It passes through a {{convert|535|yard|m|adj=on}} tunnel.<ref name="Middleton54–55">{{Harvnb|Middleton|1979|pp=54–55.}}</ref>  There is also a {{convert|220|yard|m|adj=on}} tunnel between Brighton and Hove stations.<ref name="HoveStation"/>

===Taxis===
The first [[Hackney carriage]] licences were issued by the Hove Police Commissioners in 1859. Within 30 years passengers could choose between a wide range of vehicles, including first- and second-class cabs, hand-pulled invalid carts, goat-drawn [[chaise]]s, [[Landau (carriage)|landaus]] and [[Brougham (carriage)|broughams]]. The first motor cab was licensed in 1908, but horse-drawn carriages persisted until after 1925.<ref name="EncH&Pv7p1">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 7, p. 1.}}</ref>  Hackney carriages are now licensed by the city council are coloured white and aqua. Fares are also regulated by the council.<ref name="BHCC-HackneyCarriages">{{cite web|url=https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/parking-and-travel/travel-transport-and-road-safety/information-hackney-carriage-and-private|title=Information on Hackney carriage and private hire taxis|year=2016|publisher=[[Brighton and Hove City Council]]|accessdate=10 October 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616071903/http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/parking-and-travel/travel-transport-and-road-safety/information-hackney-carriage-and-private|archivedate=16 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>  There are 17 [[Taxicab stand|taxi ranks]] in Hove,{{#tag:ref|Including Hangleton and West Blatchington, but excluding Portslade.|group=note}} including two which operate at night only.<ref name="BHCC-TaxiRanks">{{cite web|url=https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/parking-and-travel/travel-transport-and-road-safety/taxi-ranks-brighton-hove|title=Taxi ranks in Brighton & Hove|year=2016|publisher=[[Brighton and Hove City Council]]|accessdate=10 October 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630211425/http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/parking-and-travel/travel-transport-and-road-safety/taxi-ranks-brighton-hove|archivedate=30 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>