Editing Hove (section)

===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 Its original station buildings survive, but goods facilities were withdrawn in 1968.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"/>