Silloth Railway: A Celebration | Carlisle Library's Local History Talks
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- 📽️📽️📽️ Carlisle Library's Local History Talks | Silloth Railway: A Celebration
Let's take a trip down memory lane. Or should that be memory LINE? All aboard the steam train from Carlisle for a ride down to this 19th-20th Century Cumbrian beach resort.
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Very interesting, thank you
Thank you for sharing,
My father worked for British Rail at Abbey Station and we lived in Abbeytown. When the last train left Abbeytown Station the guy who waved the train out of the station with his wagon lamp turned to me and said "Here you are Edward, this is for you" and handed me the lamp. I still have that lamp today. On that sad day, I remember the linesmen putting detonators on the track just before the station to put on a bit of a performance. I even had the privilege of riding on the footplate to Silloth from Abbeytown on a number of occasions. Probably not allowed but all the guys knew me.
Well presented
Brilliant video - I have a photo of me as a toddler on a roundabout at Siloth approx 1964
It shows the little summerhouse on the hill - We have been to see Siloth last week
thanks for this video
I remember going to Silloth on the Train and staying in a caravan. That was when the RAF were just withdrawing from the airfield and before the holiday park. It was a sad day for Silloth when the line closed and it started a long slow decline. When I was older I can still remember going for days out at Silloth in a Triumph Herald car and going through Thursby and Wigton. Got my bucket and spate from Winters on the corner and made sandcastles on the beach at Allonby. Happy, sunny, carefree days....!
Fantastic memories!
This is great, thankyou Sir.
Excellent
Thanks very much for your excellent video.
My great grandfather John Gardner was Chief Engineer of the SS Yarrow. On his retirement on 21st February 1919 the officers and crew presented him with a ship's bell mounted to silver holder. It's on my mantlepiece! Our family owned a large (6 ft) scale model of Yarrow which was in a shop window in Eden Street. Why in a shop window? Because my grandmother Isabella was widowed at a young age and she had to sell it.
My mum inherited 12 Eden Street when Isabella died. When I was a boy and into my early teens we would visit when there were no tenants. (We lived in London). She later moved permanently to Silloth in 1986.
My bedroom overlooked the station and the bowling green. I remember steam locos and shunters. I remember the The British Rail Derby Lightweight diesel multiple units which featured glass panels just behind the driver such that boy might think he was the driver! And yes, there were a few pennies spent getting my name stamped on those metal strips. My mum was at school with Johnnie Grey, Gray or Graham? He had the donkey rides on the green and would let me ride the horse featured.
I wonder if we have more recollections in common? At 12:27 the photo is of Mr Longcake's beachside café. We would play cowboys and indians and jump from the dunes onto the roof. Mr Longcake was always quick to play sheriff and we scattered pronto when he chased us off. I don't know if he had both places, but in my early teens he had a café with a jukebox just under the Solway (now Golf) Hotel. I rather think its a kebab and pizza place now.
Did you ever walk over the lock gates when they were shut. Or be a tearaway moving one railway wagon from one place to t'other? (Surprisingly easy when there's a few of you).
I think though my fondest memory was when a Russian grain boat, sides scrapping the lock gates, was docked and unloading its cargo. They used giant vacuum pumps. We didn't help much by jumping feet first from the quayside into the grain. I reckon twelve to fifteen feet with the consequence of ending up armpit deep. Health and Safety. What's that?
Nice video. As someone else said, well presented and enjoyable to watch.
Great film, one error - the Cinema closed in 1975. I remember going to it and in 1972 I was 2 or 3.
Excellent! Thanks for clarifying! You just missed out on Star Wars premiers.
Love it
Many lines and sidings at Silloth. Did they serve to meet more than the needs of the coal exporters, Carr's factory and the passengers?
Thanks for making this video, my Dad is from Silloth and my Aunt still lives there, I had no idea it used to be a big holiday destination, next time I go up I may have to go and try to find some of the remaining sights from the line
Doubt you will, last time we were there on the spot where the railway houses had been was being transferred to housing, initially it had been one massive home I believe but that was sold, next time we went up there absolutely nothing. The police station had closed down too, this eventually became seperate apartments that were sold. New housing estate (yak) built opposite Stanwix Park. We have followed its path to becoming a great place once again (we knew it would) always ejoyed our stays in our caravan there, miss those holidays too! :(
I have to mention that the Majestic Cinema in Silloth most definitely DID NOT close in 1972,as we as kids went to see many films there,including Digby the Biggest Dog in the World,made in 1973. long after it's release.
What a shame the canal wasn't opened to Liverpool
Labour wrecked Silloth closing the line down
Absolutely, we can see by how it has flourished over the last decade or so just how much damage had been done to the town, never mind it is defintely risen once again!