from Brighton to Kemp Town failed to stop properly at the terminus and collided at slow speed with the buffer stops. There were eleven passenger vehicles in the train, three of them six-wheelers and the rest four-wheelers. Seventeen passengers sustained minor injuries. The driver claimed that the train load was heavier than normal, but the Inspecting Officer, Col von Donop, found that he failed to take that into account and the fault was entirely his. The line falls by a slight gradient (1 in 213) to the terminus; the Westinghouse brake was working throughout the train. There was a rule that on entering terminal stations the automatic brake was not to be used except in emergency, but only the engine hand brake was to be used in normal circumstances. (The driver did use the Westinghouse brake when he realised he could not stop safely.) There was heavy rain at the time and the wheels may have been sliding. British Railways E4 Class locomotive No. 32468 was in collision with the buffers at an unknown date. Land use since closure The site of Kemp Town station has been redeveloped as the Freshfield Industrial Estate. The portal of the railway tunnel leading through to the site of Hartington Road Halt (now a block of flats), may be viewed from the compound of a self-storage warehouse and van rental company. Hartington Road Viaduct was demolished in 1973, and Lewes Road Viaduct followed in 1976. The supermarket building located where Lewes Road Viaduct approached Lewes Road Station incorporates tall arches of dark brick in its outer façade, recalling the viaduct. A gap in the Victorian houses of D'Aubigny Road, uphill from the supermarket, indicates where the station once stood. Part of the line was converted into William Clarke Park. See also Transport in Brighton and Hove Notes References Further reading Douglas d'Enno, East Brighton and Ovingdean Through Time. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2010. . John Minnis, The London, Brighton and the South Coast Railway. Stroud: The History Press, 2007. . Closed railway lines in South East England Railway lines closed in 1971 1869 establishments in England