Video of the last run of steam trains from Paddock Wood in Kent to Hawkhurst, via Horsmonden, Goudhurst and Cranbrook before Beeching's cuts closed the line for good.
I used to travel to school on trains on this branch line. In some occasions, the old gentleman with the bowler hat used to let school children sit in the first class carriage with him, as the train never had enough seats for us all. If we missed the bus at Hawkhurst Station it would mean a 2 Mile walk home to the other side of the village. A very long day for children.
Would I have your permission to employ your footage in a forthcoming 'then and now' film I'm making about this line? I would credit you on screen of course! Best wishes.
Sixties is now a distant memory. However, the fashions were pre-US invasion and if you had shown them your 21st Century phone the lads would have wanted one "right away!"
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I used to travel to school on trains on this branch line. In some occasions, the old gentleman with the bowler hat used to let school children sit in the first class carriage with him, as the train never had enough seats for us all. If we missed the bus at Hawkhurst Station it would mean a 2 Mile walk home to the other side of the village. A very long day for children.
Would I have your permission to employ your footage in a forthcoming 'then and now' film I'm making about this line? I would credit you on screen of course! Best wishes.
Sixties is now a distant memory. However, the fashions were pre-US invasion and if you had shown them your 21st Century phone the lads would have wanted one "right away!"
what video is this from?
I think originally British Pathé but I have not seen it anywhere else. I got it off a badly produced '90s video called "The Best of British Steam"
Thank you for posting it. Oh those were the days!