£25,000 was earmarked in mid March by Chichester District Council for the construction of a cycle trail between Chichester and Selsey. Of particular interest to railway ramblers is the proposal to approach Nature's Way Foods and Selsey Golf Club by re-using the formation of the Selsey Tramway between Ferry Pond (effectively Ferry station site) and Paddock Lane, Selsey, close to the site of the former Golf Links Halt. The section of line from Sidlesham station to Ferry has been open for some years as a walk along the western edge of Pagham Harbour, and the extension to Paddock Lane would create a continuous route along the former tramway of nearly 3 miles.

At the north end of the line, a 1 mile section from Stockbridge Road, Chichester, to and alongside the Chichester Canal has been a public footpath for many years. Similarly, a ½ mile section can be walked between Hunston canal bridge and the B2145 in Hunston village.

Few physical artefacts from the line remain, the most notable being the abutments of the bridge over the Chichester Canal at Hunston, and the remote Chalder station, an early concrete structure which survives alongside the minor road that runs east from the Anchor Inn at Sidlesham. Part of Hunston station remains in a field alongside the B2145 Chichester-Selsey road, but it wouldn't be found by accident! Nameplates from some of the tramway's locomotives are preserved in Chichester Museum.

Report by Jeff Vinter