The last slam-door train to run in Sussex will leave Brighton station tomorrow morning.

Rail operator Southern has pledged the 9.19am Brighton to Victoria service and the return 11.06am from Victoria will be the very last to run, and it will then be taken to the scrapyard.

In both directions, the train will run via Lewes due to engineering works, and will stop at Haywards Heath, Gatwick airport, East Croydon and Clapham Junction.

The Mark I slam-door trains have served Sussex and the Brighton Line since the mid Fifties and before that, the famous green electric trains and the carriages hauled by steam locomotives were all slamdoor.

They have been replaced by new Electrostar trains, which have sliding doors.

The Government, through the Health and Safety Executive, has ordered that no slam-door trains should run after November this year.

But rail operator South West Trains has been given special permission to continue running some slam-door trains between Lymington and Brockenhurst, Hampshire.

Southern ran its last scheduled slam-door service out of Victoria during the evening rush hour on August 19.

Since then it has kept some of the old slam-door stock as back-up for the Electrostar units and they have been making the occasional appearance.

Matt Ball, spokesman for Southern, said: "We can guarantee that the services on Saturday will be the very last slam-door service to run in Sussex.

"All the other carriages, apart from a handful given to railway preservation societies, have been sent to the breakers' yard.

"The slam-door trains have served Sussex travellers well, but people require newer, modern trains and the Electrostars are far safer."