Thank you informative and interesting looking forward to a time when trains re enter Robertsbridge from Tenterden

At 1:22 there used to be some concrete tank traps constructed in WW2 to the left of the line and I wonder if they're still there in the undergrowth.

Not familiar with the area but that quarry site is a mess. If it's no longer needed for ballast production,it should be put to use for housing . Maybe the local MP should be consulted for his views. Alternatively address the perpetual argument for a southerly extension.

Great shame this line closed. amazing how overgrown old railways become. The colour film on here from 1975 is well worth watching.

I’ve travelled on this section of line in the late 2000’s up to the Meldon Viaduct halt in a Thumper. The line is now owned by Network Rail. They could have reinstated this line down to Tavistock and Plymouth by now at a fraction of the cost that’s been wasted on HS2, including the replacement of the viaduct. This would have been a boon to the communities that have been cut off from decent transport links since the line was closed, especially when you see how successful the reopening on the line to Okehampton has been.

Another very interesting video - cheers 👍

Good work! More please

The slow train to nowhere.

That's a pretty impressive-looking viaduct ! 😎

Shame it hasn't been turned into an official cycle route. A couple of years ago, it was virtually impossible to cycle through, due to the condition of the track bed.

Certainly shows off the future of Heritage Rail recovery by keeping the footpath beside the line, whether or not it's the second trackbed, delivering to "Access for All". Thanks for the update.

Presumably this line would originally have been double-tracked, with the 2nd line where the foot/cycle path now sits ?

cool railroad bro

at 3:16 my old house on the right by those tall conifers

Is this route now a road that scars the once green and pleasant land?

They will clear the infill in time. Tbh with the waste that was illegally dumped there in the early 1970s, it should be cleared at the governments expense. It's been polluting the local area since then with the strange coloured water seeping out! Known to be toxic and polluting and should never have been dumped there! Once it is cleared the way is open to relay to Chilcompton. Same goes for the other way to Radstock, once Silver Street is bridged again(which it is planned to). This little acorn line will be a mighty oak in time. Well done to all involved in bringing back part of the S&D, that, let's face it, no one ever thought they would see again!!

To think that the space the it takes up could occupy just one lane of the M25.

This little video is brilliant. I would love to see it go all the way to West Bay. Brilliant

I've just watched a film by Allen Snowden taken in 1958 about the HAWKHURST line. Excellent movie. It would be somewhere on KZbin.

Could you not find a way to go under Silver St which would give you a fairly unfettered run all the way to Radstock? A shame the NSR plans failed as more serious cases could be made to run into Radstock, securing funding to dig a small tunnel under the roundabout and connect directly to the Frome line which is just rotting away abandoned.

I can remember watching in amazment as class 37's loco's thundering through Cross inn over that bridge must be 30 plus years ago now. Haven't been up here for a number of years but what strikes me is how urbanised and bland that tarmac footpath and the whole area has become from what once was on the whole simple beautiful countryside. That footpath (cycleway secondary) looks very dangerous for walkers especially the elderly or partially blind or deaf and animals to. Luckily under the new highway code the principle duty and responsibility is on the cyclist to pass safely giving way to pedestrians in the process.

That was a great little video - cheers ! 👍

They should’ve kept the station open to keep all the cars off the road that’s the trouble these days is too many cars on the road

I should’ve kept it as a station in the harbour I’m not being funny but I killed it when I got rid of it

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Living quite locally, have walked the entire route many times. Very pretty during the spring and summer months.

If only you could turn back time to hear those little tank engines pounding the grade to meet big brother pacific waiting to haul the train to London. If only I took notice at what was going on in my younger days. Thanks for posting. All the best Mick.

Should have kept it open, used it as a preserved railway enterprise with steam and diesel, and built the regenerated area around it. Again, as with UK railways, an opportunity lost. Thankfully the majority of rails remain and it wouldn't take much to return. One day, hopefully.

Such a shame 😕. It has such a lot of history. I was born in Folkestone and have lived here all my life. That railway track has always thrived, and the ferry terminal. Another line gone and more card on the road because of it!

Great vid, do you know the railway that went through what is now Canada lake?

very interesting

Brilliant video, thanks

Superb upload ,spent many a happy day/night fishing on that pier

Very good. I visited today to walk as much of the route that I could and to see the regeneration of the station.

Great video. Was this filmed in march?

Great video,like a lot of folk know Folkestone from being one of the main air bases during the war ,but great to see the train lines,and the sad fact it was the last place so many a brave soul saw before they went to war and didn't come back.

Stayed in Folkstone several times to get the Sea Cat over to France shopping !

Loved the video, well done. I used to go to Folkestone every summer for a day out. Remember the harbour station although never used it. Moved to Norfolk in 1980 so lost touch. Didn't the station burn down in a fire? I agree the station should have stayed open, the other stations are a fair way off.

An absolutely superb video about vandalism.

are you in a helicopter

That's Folkestone, not Folkstone

All those thousands of soldiers in WW2 leaving to embark on a ship, in to the unknown. Makes you want to weep.Hey we could lay some tracks down, what a great heritage railway.

Caught boats from there a few times in the ‘60’s. Progress? You tell me! Great footage!

it's very sad indeed to see that it will never run again it should have😭😭😭😭

I remember taking the Sealink ferry from here in the early 1970's. Folkestone's heyday though for me was as a child in the 1960's, staying in a wonderful villa house in Earls Avenue and going to the permanent fun-fair and boating pool. What a shame all that vibrant life and character has been erased. People visiting today would have no comprehension of how amazing it was in comparison to now.

Sad! A lot of men went overseas to war from here, and never returned, these areas would have been the last sight of Blighty to them, RIP.

Why was it demolished couldn't they keep it for some other use ?

Whats happening to the closed railway?

It is being rebuilt and is now finished (8/8/2018) and very beautiful it looks too.

I thought they were supposed to be preserving the old station buildings, not knocking them down?!