Fenchurch Walk

Fenchurch Walk is a wide pedestrian walkway on the recently redeveloped area of land that used to be occupied by Brighton Locomotive Works.

It has a series of poster-sized plaques celebrating Brighton's history (with an emphasis on the railway).

Plaques

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  1: Herring-fishing origins

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  2: Railway network, Devil's Dyke, Jenny Lind locomotive

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  3: Oliver Bulleid's SR "austerity" Q1-Class 0-6-0 locomotive

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  4: Dr Richard Russe, John Nash's Royal Pavilion

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  5: The Isetta bubble-car works

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  6: "Burgundy" E1 0-6-0 tank locomotive #110, the hundredth loco to be built at Brighton Works

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  7: David Mocatta's Brighton Station

Notes

• The reason why plaque #3 also features the Mallard locomotive is not entirely clear, as the Mallard was not designed or built in Brighton, didn't run a Brighton service, and doesn't seem to have ever visited (unlike, say, the Flying Scotsman, which did make a ceremonial trip to Brighton).

• The E1 tank locomotive was the forerunner of the E2 (also built in Brighton), which had a more stumpy funnel. The "second-series" version of the E2, with its forward-projecting water tanks, was used as the basis of Thomas the Tank Engine.

• Plaques 5-7 are on the wall of the Sainsbury's supermarket building. Pop inside the entrance and you'll see a children's ride-on model of Thomas the Tank Engine.

• A "Q1" locomotive also appeared in "Thomas and Friends", as the locomotive "Neville".