Newlyweds Jo and Matt Poole celebrated their union with a ride on a seafront railway.

Their post-wedding trip along Brighton seafront on the Volks train will be one of the last before the railway undergoes a major revamp.

Next month work will begin on moving a stretch of the 122-year-old railway track, which carries passengers from the Palace Pier along Brighton beach, to make it more visible to tourists and make room for a planned £500,000 beach sports centre.

Thousands of pounds will be spent relaying 100m of the track along a new "S" bend towards the sea and back up to the pavement before straightening out to meet its current route towards the marina.

The work on the electric track, the first to be built in Britain, will be carried out by Brighton and Hove City Council, which owns the line.

The Volks Electric Railway was the brainchild of inventor Magnus Volk, from Brighton, and opened in November 1883 with a 300-yard track before being extended a year later, followed by the final addition to Black Rock in 1901.