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mdought1
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2007
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Dreamland Margate
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The last night at the cinema by the seaside in Margate (1st December 2007)
Folkestone Harbour to Folkestone East
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Clip taken aboard the V.S.O.E. in May 2007.
Great video mate, i have visited Folkestone Habour recently and took a walk along this abandoned Harbour station which is now open to the public for tourist attraction, the signal box by the station is now a coffee shop, i've read in Kent local paper recently that there are talk of the North of the line to be turn into a tram line as there now a summer market, i last visited Folkestone Harbour coming on the train from Folkestone East over 20 years ago, Shame the line had to close would be good for tourist now as they visit the Harbour Arms.
Whats a Babe !
Interesting.
I watched this an recognized the Burstin Hotel,,,,an unbelievable dump. Guess it's full of vermin migrants now.
Have they built houses on it yet?
No
You can walk where the bridge was
And the station
The hotel inthe background full of "immigrants"
1959 London Victoria - Folkestone - Calais - Milan, again in 1966 and 1968 . . . pleasant memories. Folkestone been a part of my story for 63 years.
Kool
💘💘💖💖❤❤
This line's already in the throes of abandonment, evidently.
Crappy overcast weather makes this vid seem overexposed. And despite the F bombs a most uninspiring journey, over a boring, messy, decaying line indeed.
I was there in the far ‘84 ....the first and unique time Iv been in England ( Rome-Calais by train....the ferry..train Folkestone to London Victoria ...sweet memories)
its so sad to see that all the history have gone 😥
Silly how there are so many tracks (at least 8) at that junction yet the train to the harbour and the passenger train which zips past at the start of the video get just a single track each. Guess it would derail if it went any faster and that bridge looks like it's ready to collapse. No investment and no redundancy so one little track fault and the whole network goes down which sounds about right for British rail!
So, British trains just like their cars also run on the wrong side? Interesting.
No, everyone else drives on the wrong side of the road.
The place looks like landfill. You pay to go on a train end up in shit hole like that! mad. You'd ask the staff "where are you taking us, chernobyl.?".
Cool
One really doesn't notice the steepness of the climb: 1:30.
I could appreciate these cabride/footplate/mitfahrt videos more if they would either start or end with a picture of the train itself so we can see what we're riding on.
By the sound of it a Class 67 loco prob. Nr 24 or 21.
Once the abandoned line gets developed into a park and cycle line, it will be great to see a comparison.
th-cam.com/video/HTr9h0j6Cuw/w-d-xo.html
Oh yes, simply great. And did your dream come true?
So sad.
Maybe there would of been a spur that the former Folkestone Harbour branch line would of connected onto from Folkestone Central. Very sad to see the branch line now gone and there are remains of it today.
*would have
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz You bet me to it. Shame English isn't taught in schools any more.
Came from watching Geoff Marshall’s video he done yesterday about the former Folkestone Harbour branch line. So sad it’s not there anymore. Would there be a spur linking from Folkestone Central to Folkestone Harbour and to have a station between Folkestone Central and Folkestone Harbour.
Same here. TH-cam algorithms.
Yep same
@@luxford60 Lol
Same :-)
It made £100k a year for £7m in upkeep.
th-cam.com/video/HTr9h0j6Cuw/w-d-xo.html Geoff brought me here.
Line closed now 🙁🚂🚂🚂
It's been closed for a LONG time
@@CableWrestler Ok 😉🚂🚂🚂
Plans now to reopen this line....
yeah as a park I thought?
Only as a pedestrian track
I used to be taken to the funfair on the beach at Folkestone as a child , but iv now learned it's no longer open same as the cliff lifts. (How did this happen ??? ) It would be great to open a new fun park with apartment's for family weekends , now it's so quick an easy to travel to and from now transport links have been highly improved.
@@originalherdsman3524 it's not the 1960s any more. People don't want to go to scrubby Folkstone
This will never be reopened
Is the swearing really necessary? Just use music, I muted sound.
You delicate being
@@CableWrestler Demonstrates a poverty of speech, in both senses of meaning.
Such a shame that the railway line got closed down.
Best f'ing commentary ever!
The third rail looks rusty..was it ever used? If the branch had been electrified much earlier than it was a couple of powerful 3rd rail electric locos might have been v successful with heavy trains and eliminated the need for all those tank engines... am I right or wrong?
It was indeed used - it ran electric trains from 1962 until (presumably) the end of regular services in 2001, so that's about six years of surface rust on the third rail. As for the speculative part: Probably! The Southern Railway did have some success with third-rail locos hauling large freight loads (the CC1 and CC2).
Not just the third rail that is rusty and look at the state of those bridges! If the train went any faster it would end up in the harbour!
Why did the VSOE keep running there after the ferry stopped?
should never have closed it
It was losing money
@@CableWrestler make it work
@@enjoyyourday5870 Make it work how?
great video footage... what class is the traction pls?
At a punt I'm going to say class 67. It is definitely an EMD 2 stroke, and the 57's at the time were in use with frieghtliner, great western and virgin. The driver also says its "a 125 mph machine." So a class 67.
Interesting start to the journey with a single line into Harbour station, two platforms, how and where did the passenger trains run too?.
the line was turned into a single track 2000 even though the you can see the other one and the trains used to come london Victoria and reverse into those sidings. when they reduced the amount of ferrys with the opening of the channel tunnel which eventually lead to closure of all ferry’s in 2000 the line shut in 2009 (officially 2014)however after the 2000 it was only gala devices or special trains that went down there however they still use the sidings in the first bit
Don't give Tuppence if they swear a bit - first time I've seen a video of this route which is gone now. Still got my place in Folkestone despite being 10,000 miles away now.
Lucky you
great video 👍shame it closed disappointed I never saw it when it was running pity heritage railway never took it over I last went down there in March and plan to go again next week to see what they have done in the last 6 months
Not surprising it closed really, with the very limited traffic once the Channel Tunnel opened. It was Network Rail’s most expensive mile of railway to maintain!
Just wanna ask did the trains to Folkestone always go that frustratingly slow
The state of the track dictated the speed.
Also you are going down a 1 in 30 gradient so don't want to be going to fast.
Was there yesterday,
RIP *Folkestone Harbour*
You can still walk from the station and the bridge
Folkestone East looks strange.
Yes the platform looks very narrow
thanks for this- is folkestone east still there?
There, but closed to passengers in September 1965
Look at the litter everywhere! Railways are depressing places nowadays. People took a pride when I was young.
I was a fireman on the steam there when rostered from Dover, folkestone harbour was litter free in those days
Did they though, or is your memory selective?
Engine drivers present themselves as some kind of elite. This clip proves otherwise.
Aisling Michaela O'Neill not in this country they don’t
Care to justify that claim? You calling them "engine drivers" implies to me you're not from this country, and as per above I havent seen any large number of train drivers who act as if they're special _because of_ their profession.
Chavtastic.
Potty mouth train crew
Is profanity part of the job description?
Fuck yeah.
And lots of effing swearing too!
Interesting to find out what this locomotive type was. Doesn't sound like a Class 67 though I could be wrong. Also looks like the line hadn't been 'singled' yet when this was taken. Where does EBB on the signal relate to?
Flyfactors UK it sounds like a class 66 at 7:47
Agree. Though the staple diet on VSOE operations is the Class 67 either heading or one located top and tail. 'Shed' must have been some sort of substitution for a 'Skip' shortage that day. Would most likely have adjoined at Folk East rather than been top and tailed down from London Vic. Thanks for that :o)
EBB was Folkestone Harbour, gone along with the line.
Well the media were wrong yet again, of course many of the original features still exist, they were just covered over and somewhat abused with modern facades and tacky corporate crap. The outside and windows have been restored, the inside is ongoing. An operator of the auditorium (however the council choose to move forward with the space and blocked balcony) is some years off though.
Real shame about the foul language. Does nothing for their industry.
Why? They're not customer service employees, so I don't see a problem. Despite what some may think (you included by the looks) train drivers aren't some sort of chivalrous noble order. Go to any building site, machine or welding shop and you'll hear the same language or worse
They're not continuity announcers on Radio Four. They're train drivers. I'd have been swearing if I'd seen people loitering near the track
Nonsense. Wake up and smell the thorns.
i went there to see supergirl as a kid when it first come out if thats the same cinema next door to dreamland