I just visited Folkestone Harbour a few months ago and they have really look after the station as it now open to the public for people to stroll around, i'm please Network Rail preserve the line for future reopening of the line now it being nationalise.
Lovely video, but when panning the camera around please slow down so that we can appreciate the views that you are showing. I was the same as you when I first used a video camera. Thanks for showing the line where the trains have stopped using, and probably not many people appreciate this as you do. Thanks for showing.
Redifon is Thales of Crawley. They are a radar and government defense system specialist. Redifon or Thales invented and supply to the British railway system the system known as TPWS (Train Protection and Warning System). This uses the grids shown before and after the signal to relay data to and from the train, which in collaboration with the signals aspect will produce a warning in the cab which will if not dealt with accordingly (brake application or cancellation of the warning or both) will induce the brakes to be applied. This will also occur in the event of the speed limit being broken.
I'd like to say how much I'm enjoying your videos. They're quite unique in that there's no narration, just a few facts scrolling up the screen. I really like this presentation, it gives the viewer the chance to absorb the atmosphere. Please keep posting. They are a joy, even though it's quite sad to see all these abandoned tracks and stations.
Amazing that the old signal post phone, shunt signals, name plates etc are still there and haven't ended up on Ebay like everything else. I would've been tempted to pickup the phone to the old box and ask "for the road"!! I am well retired now but still have my old LNER pocket watch with a low number. Nice video.
It's really cool that a bridge like this wasn't scrapped, but turned into a bridge for walkers. The fact that all of the cement was placed around the track instead of destroying the track itself is awesome. For railfans like me, I really appreciate that nothing was destroyed. However, it's unfortunate this line closed. But hey, all good things must come to an end. I really liked that video quite a lot! Regards, Joseph cheeseinthepie. 10/7/2018
Very interesting brings back memories of my late Father. He was employed by British Railway as an Assistant to the Divisional Civil Engineer , Works and General Regional Offices at Beckenham. He was heavily involved in Folkestone and Dover Ports and Sea Defence work during the late 60s .
I can remember visiting Folkstone Harbour branch back in May 1994 as part of the channel tunnel opening celebrations. We boarded a steam special in and back out on a very wet evening. The station looked quite run down, even back then. It would've been nice to retain it as a branch for rail tours, single track, with the other lifted to make way for a shared use foot and cycle path.
Why oh why the Grand Burstin Hotel was allowed to be built, heaven knows. It's an architecturally-terrible and overbearing building. Why didn't they take a hint from the beautiful hotels in the Leas - it's bonkers! I had the misfortune to visit the Grand Burstin and I felt lucky not to be mugged. The people there looked like they were either pikeys, or appeared to be facially ravaged by Class A drug-use. It was a truly horrendous experience. In my youth I spent many long summers in Folkestone during the 60's. It was a was a fabulous and exciting seaside town. Walking around it several years ago, I felt quite depressed about all the character, charm and vibrancy that's seemingly been eradicated over the last 40-50 years.
What an excellent place. IMO all old railway lines should be re-purposed like this. Maybe you know what's happening to the old Shoreditch to Broad Street track. That would be a cool multi-purpose path - bicycling right into the City.away from traffic. I'm sort of working with the Old Oak /Park Royal re-dev team about re-using disused sidings near Willesden Junc as a "greenway." They've done similar in Paris and the New York high line. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line
there's also plans for the former KTM line down from woodlands checkpoint to the Tanjong Pagar Railway station to be turned to something similar to high line, but as per the agreement with the Malaysian government over the line down to TPRS almost all rails except those in the immediate area of the stations (TPRS and Bt Timah RS) were removed and trancated just after the plaforms of the woodlands train checkpoint / Woodlands checkpoint. though currently, they are converting the platforms downward TPRS for construction works for the Circle Line stage 6 (Local Metro) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanjong_Pagar_railway_station en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Timah_railway_station thelongnwindingroad.wordpress.com/tag/former-ktm-railway-land/
One of your films that I missed. Not sure how that happened, but nice to see it now. I've watched films on here with trains on that line - even late in the day when it was still operational. Fascinating to see it now :) Nice to hear the word 'Plessey' again - we had a large factory at Ilford in Essex where friends worked in the 60/70's. Cheers.
Great footage well done, it is strange to think that most of us would have used that line when travelling on slam door trains tyo get the ferry to Oostend....very sad to see it all gone, would be nice to maybe open up the disused part of the track to bring people to the front .....
Hey, great fun! I grew up in Folkestone. My mum still lives on Hastings at the grand age of 90. We could pop over there for a day out just to reminisce. If my memory serves, Mr Burstin was refused planning permission for a motel by the harbour. So he said, "If I just build a hotel and put my name on it, that'll be ok then? The council agreed. He then proceeded to change his name to Motel Burstin! X¬D
I took boat trains to Folkestone Harbour several times in the early 80s for ferries to Boulogne. Nice to see the old BR Central Services “toilet seat” logo from the 90s again in the signal phone - I thought I’d seen the last of those when they demolished Weston House in Crewe a few years ago - there was one on a sign just after the blocked-off entrance, as it used to be a BR Computing building before it was abandoned for about 20 years.
If you could only turn the clock back. Must have been a tidy spectacle with the tank engines pushing and shoving the heavy boat train up to the main line to be collected by a Bullied Pacific. With the check rail on the inside of the curve shows that it must have been a pretty tight radius adding to the struggle. Thanks for sharing. All the best Mick🇬🇧
My dad would take us down to that crossing when we were on holiday in the 1950s. I was about 7yrs old. The double headed train would be positively volcanic by the time it got into that curve.
I have been on this line in a train on one occasion. It was in 1971 when we took the boat train for a sailing to Boulogne for a holiday in Interlaken. I have often wondered what had happened to this line . Now I know. Thanks for uploading. Good idea to keep the bridge and the station as a pedestrian feature. The director of the Wensleydale railway told me that with a view to preservation it is vitally important to keep the track in place even if it is all rusty because this means it is still legally a railway line.
Guys please advocate they keep them in place. Here in the US a lot of our rail is getting ripped up and the right of way(land) is being given to towns and cities or re purposed for walking trails. Some is just being completely torn up and gone forever. In the US is so difficult to regain the land to run new rail lines let alone a highway.
Yes. Im told that when they closed our local line apparently literally the next day they were tearing track up to make damn sure (in the 60s) the protests to keep it could not succeed. 😔
Glen Graham When the preservation society took over the Bluebell Line they very quickly found out why British Rail wanted to get rid of it - the track, the signals, the locos, the rolling stock, the stations - all of it was in a terrible state of repair! The track can only be left in situ if a preservation society has been established. If there is no preservation society legally in effect, the track has to be ripped up because BR would otherwise be responsible if anyone tries to use it. When I was at the Eccleston Valley Railway they explained this legal conundrum to me, adding that 'Really, a preservation society is a bunch of fools and a heritage railway is a trick to get you to work for nothing!'
I agree. I also hate those rail-to-trail things. In a town not far from me, the state had allocated an old branch for commuter service and even showed a stop on some transit maps. Then the new head of the transit agency came along and that Iron horse organization showed up rather quickly. Before we knew it, the line was sold, along with quite a few other lines, to the local towns and turned into trails. The thing is this particular line is not safe for walking due to the urban area which it passes through. On top of that the town now regrets getting involved because it's costing them $200K a year for maintenance on something that's hardly used. I know as well as you that once the tracks are gone, the line is dead because sure as shoot-in the NIMBYs will make sure the trains never run again. They would rather sit in their cars and SUVs for hours on end than to take a train quickly to their destinations.
My Grandfather and Mother would both be amazed as they were both Folkstone born and bred, My Grandfather worked on the Sealink Ferrys just after ww1 at Folkstone Harbour and helped to load passengers from the trains to the boats, He later worked on the Perminant way at Folkstone before getting to be Station Master at Ashford, My mother would often meet him at the harbour station after school or take him his lunch during school holidays, I'm very pleased that something good is being done to that part of Folkstones history thank you for sharing it with us.
Cool, there is something about walking on an old railway line. I live in South-East Wales and there are loads of closed railways, and to walk on them you can imagine what it was like back in those days, the trains rushing through the countryside, countryside that you simply do not get in the South-East of England, certainly not in Folkestone and Kent, flat as a pancake.
Like the idea of wandering around as you've done, but just need to take your time looking at views & signs etc - just a little fast/hurried filming, otherwise most enjoyable and quirky.
With the line being available and unused surely there is a potential to develop this into a Heritage Line to attract visitors and regenerate the area. Making the Bridge a pedestrian area without lifting the rails is forward thinking in the event that in the future it is required for Ferry services.
Person: calls signal box Signaller: what? Person: when's the next train? Signaller: there's no more trains Person: is there a ghost train? Signaller: oh yes there is! Person: REALLY? Signaller: nah I was just joking Person: ok TRAIN WHISTLE) AND ITS 3AM Signaller: sets signal to green Person: THE GHOST TRAIN!!! Signaller: I lied there is one ghost train Person: gets crushed Signaller: ok? Signaller:well he's dead Becomes ghost ghost person : I'll get on train! Ghost person: good night Signaller gets crushed Ghost Signaller:I'll set it to green TRAIN DISAPPEARS
it is sad to see old rail lines... The line in this video could be a walking line or cyclist line... Thank you morthren for the video... it is a cool line...
Fantastic how everything has been retained and the path has been laid within the rails. Has probably saved a lot of money too by not having to remove the track, demolish the bridge and station, etc.
As a kid in the late 50s, early 60s, I would see steam workings, mostly freight but occasional passengers trains, on the Harbour branch. It was electrified in 1960-ish. One thing that didn't come across in the video is how steeply graded the branch is, requiring double heading for heavier trains. Nice vid. Thank you sir.
Memories - our annual vacations 1971-3 - down this short stretch to the Boat and then SNCF overnight to St.Raphael and the Village de Vacances at St.Aygulf. Great value . . .Great Times!
good footage btw - wonder why theyve left that section abandoned and not built a linear park like many others have on disused sections. Do you think there is a plan to be able to resurrect the line in times of national emergency?
Interesting. Hopefully they do up the overgrown bit after they finish the station. Seemed like a nice way to keep a bit more of the history and make a nice connection between the harbour and the residental area.
I am in folkstone at the moment and I have just walked along the old folkstone harbour station line the one now used by the public. And folkstone harbour station has been done up really well.
I kept on seeing the ghost of a 4-REP, its EE motors growling past, there was one standing in the Harbour Station too, EP brakes compressor hammering the undercarriage, people slamming the doors as they alighted onto the platform.
Nice to see that they leaving it as it once was and turn it into a pedestrian zone rather than see it knocked down and some modern buildings erected that would never be put to good use see them never rented out due to high lease costs. They should make all old Railway infrastructure into walkways / cycle path’s reopening tunnels as walkways and cycling to, than see them remain unused. Great Video, 👍Thumbs Up 👍
you're welcome mate in march 2009 Oliver Cromwell held the railtour out of this station on the last few days before the line closed not long before the test train went there in 2014 before the line was gone for good
Pity folkstone authorities didnt use it as some tourist track or something run a shuttle along it...bet it would earn a few quid...one in cardiff was scheduled to be removed and now its a 158 single coach route...bit like a bus shuttle...its in Cardiff Bay " Bute Street shuttle. "
Fantastic video! I think that it is great to have these things documented. Very pleased to see that they have made something of the old viaduct and station rather than just let it rot or simply demolish it.
Wonder what is up the line? Does it just lead to the mainline pretty quick or does it go for a few miles? I remember coming to this town as a kid, I remember seeing the then abandoned station and seeing the 3rd rail and thinking it was still live 😂 things are funny when you’re a kid
It is good to see they haven't ripped up all of the rails as is so often done when lines are closed (although I see they've done that in the station area - shame) but instead of closing it why don't they leave it open and run tourist services on it?
its a pity they dont use one of the lines for paying passengers to shuttle up and down making almost full use what is going to become nothing more than vegetation.
How sad to see this railway abandoned and in a state of dereliction/removal. What would have been good would have been to have retained a single line with a passing loop and one of the platforms at Folkestone harbour for shuttle trains and steam specials. Instead what do we get but an apology for an attraction in the form of a walkway and a supposedly restored station.
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I wonder when the swing bridge was last ‘swung’.
Metro Vick became GEC Traction/Signals (at least in this context) - now owned by Alsthom - I worked for Traction in the 70's
I just visited Folkestone Harbour a few months ago and they have really look after the station as it now open to the public for people to stroll around, i'm please Network Rail preserve the line for future reopening of the line now it being nationalise.
Fantastic video , really enjoyed it , thank you.
Lovely video, but when panning the camera around please slow down so that we can appreciate the views that you are showing. I was the same as you when I first used a video camera. Thanks for showing the line where the trains have stopped using, and probably not many people appreciate this as you do. Thanks for showing.
Very interesting. Do they have any plans for the unused track?
This is epic!
They have ruined this railway, sad to see it like this
you wouldn't have phoned the signaller because it said the box was linked to Folkestone harbour box which is not in use.
Wow nice find
Thanks
Redifon loop aerial? Haven't they been out of business for at least thirty years? (Vortok still is)
Redifon is Thales of Crawley. They are a radar and government defense system specialist. Redifon or Thales invented and supply to the British railway system the system known as TPWS (Train Protection and Warning System). This uses the grids shown before and after the signal to relay data to and from the train, which in collaboration with the signals aspect will produce a warning in the cab which will if not dealt with accordingly (brake application or cancellation of the warning or both) will induce the brakes to be applied. This will also occur in the event of the speed limit being broken.
Interesting
It would be better if it were an operating preserved steam line.
Think how many soldiers during the First World War disembarked from the harbour!
Ye ik
I'd like to say how much I'm enjoying your videos. They're quite unique in that there's no narration, just a few facts scrolling up the screen. I really like this presentation, it gives the viewer the chance to absorb the atmosphere. Please keep posting. They are a joy, even though it's quite sad to see all these abandoned tracks and stations.
Amazing that the old signal post phone, shunt signals, name plates etc are still there and haven't ended up on Ebay like everything else. I would've been tempted to pickup the phone to the old box and ask "for the road"!! I am well retired now but still have my old LNER pocket watch with a low number. Nice video.
@Rafael Perzaada As in, one of the earliest ones made...
I stayed one night in that hotel. Truly aweful.
A bit Fawlty was it?
@@MitchDonovan now full of immigrants waiting to hear if they've bene granted asylum.
Why is it that Americans can't seem to understand "Stay to the right"? It's such a simple thing that makes sidewalks so much easier.
It's really cool that a bridge like this wasn't scrapped, but turned into a bridge for walkers. The fact that all of the cement was placed around the track instead of destroying the track itself is awesome. For railfans like me, I really appreciate that nothing was destroyed. However, it's unfortunate this line closed. But hey, all good things must come to an end. I really liked that video quite a lot! Regards, Joseph cheeseinthepie. 10/7/2018
Very interesting brings back memories of my late Father. He was employed by British Railway as an Assistant to the Divisional Civil Engineer , Works and General Regional Offices at Beckenham. He was heavily involved in Folkestone and Dover Ports and Sea Defence work during the late 60s .
I can remember visiting Folkstone Harbour branch back in May 1994 as part of the channel tunnel opening celebrations. We boarded a steam special in and back out on a very wet evening. The station looked quite run down, even back then. It would've been nice to retain it as a branch for rail tours, single track, with the other lifted to make way for a shared use foot and cycle path.
It would be fun to use the phone on the signal and claim to be held at a red light.
My luck the aspect would change to green.
john piper great joke 😜
Bloody hell, it's 11am and I really fancy some chippy chips with lashings of salt 'n vinegar right now. Except we're in bloody COVID-19 lockdown!
Why oh why the Grand Burstin Hotel was allowed to be built, heaven knows. It's an architecturally-terrible and overbearing building. Why didn't they take a hint from the beautiful hotels in the Leas - it's bonkers! I had the misfortune to visit the Grand Burstin and I felt lucky not to be mugged. The people there looked like they were either pikeys, or appeared to be facially ravaged by Class A drug-use. It was a truly horrendous experience.
In my youth I spent many long summers in Folkestone during the 60's. It was a was a fabulous and exciting seaside town. Walking around it several years ago, I felt quite depressed about all the character, charm and vibrancy that's seemingly been eradicated over the last 40-50 years.
The phone on signal EBB21 was connected to the closed signal box at Folkestone Harbour. No danger of a reply there.
@Rafael Perzaada A signal *box*, not a signal
Most interesting, I remember the tank engines barking up and down, 3 or 4 to a train in the 1960s. I preferred it then myself.
What an excellent place. IMO all old railway lines should be re-purposed like this. Maybe you know what's happening to the old Shoreditch to Broad Street track. That would be a cool multi-purpose path - bicycling right into the City.away from traffic. I'm sort of working with the Old Oak /Park Royal re-dev team about re-using disused sidings near Willesden Junc as a "greenway." They've done similar in Paris and the New York high line. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line
Awesome! There is something similar in New York City called the high line. Look it up!
Thanks. It does! I will definitely have to visit the high line if I'm ever in New York.
She’s abandoned?
Wrong highline
there's also plans for the former KTM line down from woodlands checkpoint to the Tanjong Pagar Railway station to be turned to something similar to high line, but as per the agreement with the Malaysian government over the line down to TPRS almost all rails except those in the immediate area of the stations (TPRS and Bt Timah RS) were removed and trancated just after the plaforms of the woodlands train checkpoint / Woodlands checkpoint. though currently, they are converting the platforms downward TPRS for construction works for the Circle Line stage 6 (Local Metro)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanjong_Pagar_railway_station
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Timah_railway_station
thelongnwindingroad.wordpress.com/tag/former-ktm-railway-land/
Remembrance Line Association has plans in this direction -but with an operational light rail operation. theremembrancelineassociation.org.uk
6:34 TPWS - essentially overspeed protection. Good clip.
Interesting video thanks for sharing your experience with us.
The scrap value of steel must be virtually nil for all those rails to have been left unpulled.
Great video! Nice finds with the abandoned signals!
Thanks!
One of your films that I missed. Not sure how that happened, but nice to see it now. I've watched films on here with trains on that line - even late in the day when it was still operational. Fascinating to see it now :) Nice to hear the word 'Plessey' again - we had a large factory at Ilford in Essex where friends worked in the 60/70's. Cheers.
Plessey was taken over by GEC
Great footage well done, it is strange to think that most of us would have used that line when travelling on slam door trains tyo get the ferry to Oostend....very sad to see it all gone, would be nice to maybe open up the disused part of the track to bring people to the front .....
just pick up the phone, and if someone answered, just say,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"I will have an x-tra large pepperoni with x-tra cheese to go".
Hey, great fun! I grew up in Folkestone. My mum still lives on Hastings at the grand age of 90. We could pop over there for a day out just to reminisce.
If my memory serves, Mr Burstin was refused planning permission for a motel by the harbour. So he said, "If I just build a hotel and put my name on it, that'll be ok then? The council agreed. He then proceeded to change his name to Motel Burstin! X¬D
I took boat trains to Folkestone Harbour several times in the early 80s for ferries to Boulogne. Nice to see the old BR Central Services “toilet seat” logo from the 90s again in the signal phone - I thought I’d seen the last of those when they demolished Weston House in Crewe a few years ago - there was one on a sign just after the blocked-off entrance, as it used to be a BR Computing building before it was abandoned for about 20 years.
If you could only turn the clock back. Must have been a tidy spectacle with the tank engines pushing and shoving the heavy boat train up to the main line to be collected by a Bullied Pacific. With the check rail on the inside of the curve shows that it must have been a pretty tight radius adding to the struggle. Thanks for sharing. All the best Mick🇬🇧
My dad would take us down to that crossing when we were on holiday in the 1950s. I was about 7yrs old. The double headed train would be positively volcanic by the time it got into that curve.
Nice one man! I love seeing old abandoned UK rail videos. Awesome work
Hi maybe ten years on they return the trains running again
Great video. Surprising that the vandals haven smahed up the phone and signal lamps lenzes. Nice bit of history there.
RODALCO2007 Thanks. I'm quite surprised nothing is smashed yet either! It probably won't be long though.
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I have been on this line in a train on one occasion. It was in 1971 when we took the boat train for a sailing to Boulogne for a holiday in Interlaken. I have often wondered what had happened to this line . Now I know. Thanks for uploading. Good idea to keep the bridge and the station as a pedestrian feature. The director of the Wensleydale railway told me that with a view to preservation it is vitally important to keep the track in place even if it is all rusty because this means it is still legally a railway line.
Yeah, once they take the tracks up, it's curtains really.
Guys please advocate they keep them in place. Here in the US a lot of our rail is getting ripped up and the right of way(land) is being given to towns and cities or re purposed for walking trails. Some is just being completely torn up and gone forever. In the US is so difficult to regain the land to run new rail lines let alone a highway.
Yes. Im told that when they closed our local line apparently literally the next day they were tearing track up to make damn sure (in the 60s) the protests to keep it could not succeed. 😔
Glen Graham When the preservation society took over the Bluebell Line they very quickly found out why British Rail wanted to get rid of it - the track, the signals, the locos, the rolling stock, the stations - all of it was in a terrible state of repair! The track can only be left in situ if a preservation society has been established. If there is no preservation society legally in effect, the track has to be ripped up because BR would otherwise be responsible if anyone tries to use it. When I was at the Eccleston Valley Railway they explained this legal conundrum to me, adding that 'Really, a preservation society is a bunch of fools and a heritage railway is a trick to get you to work for nothing!'
I agree. I also hate those rail-to-trail things. In a town not far from me, the state had allocated an old branch for commuter service and even showed a stop on some transit maps. Then the new head of the transit agency came along and that Iron horse organization showed up rather quickly. Before we knew it, the line was sold, along with quite a few other lines, to the local towns and turned into trails. The thing is this particular line is not safe for walking due to the urban area which it passes through. On top of that the town now regrets getting involved because it's costing them $200K a year for maintenance on something that's hardly used.
I know as well as you that once the tracks are gone, the line is dead because sure as shoot-in the NIMBYs will make sure the trains never run again. They would rather sit in their cars and SUVs for hours on end than to take a train quickly to their destinations.
shame they didnt leave the recess on the inside of both sets of rail , nice rails but no train could get down it in its current state.
This can't be the UK, the sun is shining.
My Grandfather and Mother would both be amazed as they were both Folkstone born and bred, My Grandfather worked on the Sealink Ferrys just after ww1 at Folkstone Harbour and helped to load passengers from the trains to the boats, He later worked on the Perminant way at Folkstone before getting to be Station Master at Ashford, My mother would often meet him at the harbour station after school or take him his lunch during school holidays, I'm very pleased that something good is being done to that part of Folkstones history thank you for sharing it with us.
Great video. I didn't notice the gradient on the rails though, I couldn't really tell.
At 3:51 somebody's speaking Russian "this isn't [Saint] Petersburg, you know"
Yeah it’s just the Russia people visiting the uk
Cool, there is something about walking on an old railway line. I live in South-East Wales and there are loads of closed railways, and to walk on them you can imagine what it was like back in those days, the trains rushing through the countryside, countryside that you simply do not get in the South-East of England, certainly not in Folkestone and Kent, flat as a pancake.
Like the idea of wandering around as you've done, but just need to take your time looking at views & signs etc - just a little fast/hurried filming, otherwise most enjoyable and quirky.
Quite sad in many respects. Would’ve been good to have one of those motorised carts to go exploring! Thanks for sharing.
Why is this not a preserved railway
If I was rich I’d buy it
With the line being available and unused surely there is a potential to develop this into a Heritage Line to attract visitors and regenerate the area. Making the Bridge a pedestrian area without lifting the rails is forward thinking in the event that in the future it is required for Ferry services.
I was lucky enough to use this line and the harbour station as kid on a school trip. We were banked out of the branch - top 'n' tail class 47s
Times changed a bit, still a lot to do,but with a little help will be a very nice place for tourists and for great and nice times👍👍👍
This line should be turned into a tram line in my opinion
Person: calls signal box
Signaller: what?
Person: when's the next train?
Signaller: there's no more trains
Person: is there a ghost train?
Signaller: oh yes there is!
Person: REALLY?
Signaller: nah I was just joking
Person: ok
TRAIN WHISTLE)
AND ITS 3AM
Signaller: sets signal to green
Person: THE GHOST TRAIN!!!
Signaller: I lied there is one ghost train
Person: gets crushed
Signaller: ok?
Signaller:well he's dead
Becomes ghost
ghost person : I'll get on train!
Ghost person: good night
Signaller gets crushed
Ghost Signaller:I'll set it to green
TRAIN DISAPPEARS
it is sad to see old rail lines... The line in this video could be a walking line or cyclist line... Thank you morthren for the video... it is a cool line...
Why did they close the railway? I know that the Eurostar came along but what difference does that make?
The ferries stopped running from Folkestone was one of the main reasons
Fantastic how everything has been retained and the path has been laid within the rails. Has probably saved a lot of money too by not having to remove the track, demolish the bridge and station, etc.
Nice.....you like the same weird stuff as me.
1:18 first thing to do!
Superb! Really wish you'd picked up that telephone though. 😁
Darn it - 1:23 in and now I gotta go get me some chips..!
As a kid in the late 50s, early 60s, I would see steam workings, mostly freight but occasional passengers trains, on the Harbour branch. It was electrified in 1960-ish. One thing that didn't come across in the video is how steeply graded the branch is, requiring double heading for heavier trains.
Nice vid. Thank you sir.
Reminds me of the 'High Line' in New York.
Mick Odell That was my first thought too. High Line with a uniquely British flavour.
Memories - our annual vacations 1971-3 - down this short stretch to the Boat and then SNCF overnight to St.Raphael and the Village de Vacances at St.Aygulf. Great value . . .Great Times!
good footage btw - wonder why theyve left that section abandoned and not built a linear park like many others have on disused sections. Do you think there is a plan to be able to resurrect the line in times of national emergency?
Great Video.
I swear I could smell the salt air and taste the chips and vinegar.
Would the scrap value have been better to have & remove, rather than something used by "geriatrics", dog walkers, & bloody families?
Interesting. Hopefully they do up the overgrown bit after they finish the station. Seemed like a nice way to keep a bit more of the history and make a nice connection between the harbour and the residental area.
I am in folkstone at the moment and I have just walked along the old folkstone harbour station line the one now used by the public. And folkstone harbour station has been done up really well.
I kept on seeing the ghost of a 4-REP, its EE motors growling past, there was one standing in the Harbour Station too, EP brakes compressor hammering the undercarriage, people slamming the doors as they alighted onto the platform.
Nice to see that they leaving it as it once was and turn it into a pedestrian zone rather than see it knocked down and some modern buildings erected that would never be put to good use see them never rented out due to high lease costs. They should make all old Railway infrastructure into walkways / cycle path’s reopening tunnels as walkways and cycling to, than see them remain unused. Great Video, 👍Thumbs Up 👍
its almost like a cruise ship being converted into a hotel
fantastic video mate especially seeing the remains of Folkestone harbour station
Thanks!
you're welcome mate in march 2009 Oliver Cromwell held the railtour out of this station on the last few days before the line closed not long before the test train went there in 2014 before the line was gone for good
I really like your style of filming. Plain/simple, like it.
Thanks
There could have been a high speed intercity any moment thundering down the rails behind you!
Cool video! We were going to go to Folkstone last week but went to Herne bay instead.
Love that dwarf signal 👍
A great video. I really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Great stuff, more more !!
Cheers for vid never knew viaduct was open to public
would have been fun if they used one side for a tram or something...
Pity folkstone authorities didnt use it as some tourist track or something run a shuttle along it...bet it would earn a few quid...one in cardiff was scheduled to be removed and now its a 158 single coach route...bit like a bus shuttle...its in Cardiff Bay " Bute Street shuttle. "
Fantastic video! I think that it is great to have these things documented. Very pleased to see that they have made something of the old viaduct and station rather than just let it rot or simply demolish it.
Oh my! How many times I took the Folkestone - Ostend ferry in the 1970's and 80's.
Wonder what is up the line? Does it just lead to the mainline pretty quick or does it go for a few miles? I remember coming to this town as a kid, I remember seeing the then abandoned station and seeing the 3rd rail and thinking it was still live 😂 things are funny when you’re a kid
Don’t be a bloody idiot, the third rail may still be live and it could hurt you. Don’t play around railroad tracks please. Electrocution is forever.
Like the famous New York "High Line" park, but in Folkestone.
How many miles all together, that was closed?
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It is good to see they haven't ripped up all of the rails as is so often done when lines are closed (although I see they've done that in the station area - shame) but instead of closing it why don't they leave it open and run tourist services on it?
its a pity they dont use one of the lines for paying passengers to shuttle up and down making almost full use what is going to become nothing more than vegetation.
the harbour arm is now thriving with small bars and buisness maybe you or i could do another vid ?? or both lol love theses vids
Nice bit of limited clearance, reminds me of track patrols thanks
Mmmmmm! Big chunky chips (fries)! Yummy........ :)
Love to see this sort of stuff. Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
I remember there as a kid on the boat train from Victoria happy days
Can remember installing them loop Ariels on them lines in the late 90s
Thank you,really interesting-going to have a look for myself today
How sad to see this railway abandoned and in a state of dereliction/removal. What would have been good would have been to have retained a single line with a passing loop and one of the platforms at Folkestone harbour for shuttle trains and steam specials. Instead what do we get but an apology for an attraction in the form of a walkway and a supposedly restored station.