I remember watching the Golden Arrow coaches crossing the harbour viaduct back in the 1970's as a kid. Folkestone was brilliant then with the Rotunda amusement park, ferry port , cliff lift etc.
The sight of the trains leaving the Harbour Station was quite a sight in the latter years - 3 GWR Pannier tanks on the front and one at the rear; plenty of steam and smoke!
Look how everyone are lined up by the fence to see Oliver Cromwell on a tour leave Folkestone harbour one last time before the line to here In Folkestone Harbour closes
My mum is from folkestone and my grandma told me when she was a little girl the train full of Americans going to the front in WW1 would stop at the crossing and the children would shout Got any gum chum.
I can't believe the government still allows lines to be closed after the disaster that was the beeching cuts. Profit losing lines could be and should be funded using profits from the rest of the network via the government, because keeping them open will increase profits in the long run. We need to be protecting and modernising all existing railway while reopening old lines and building new ones where necessary to connect as many people as possible to the rail network. When each town and city has one station in the centre connected to one single and nothing else (or often no rail links at all), nobody uses the rail because it's useless to most people. Unless we have lots of local stations in walking distance of people's homes then the railways will just continue to deteriorate into nothing.
excellent video👍 i sadly never got to see it in them days but seeing old footage what it was like and now it saddens me what they have done to it it should have never have come to this it is a very big mistake they should hang there heads in shame 😠
Brilliant filming of that historic moment, hard to imagine that it’s all changed now. So great to see Oliver Cromwell in fine fettle she’s such a magnificent steam locomotive. Very impressed with the way you captured the event from all angles.
5:48 on the left is 55022 now still operating on the mainline and it’s now part of the saphos trains fleet and on the right is d9016 is currently on display in Margate
I've been down there 3 times the first time they were taking the roof off the station since then the old station doesn't look the same one part on one side the track is missing there's tall trees weeds up the other end it should be a working station
Love the old steam trains. Its great to see people restoring some of the old lines like the blue bell Railway. One of our Favorite Trips. Here's a link to our Blue bell railway trip. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bgwQqxfWCfk.html chrisandkarenrewind.com
