FOLKESTONE HARBOUR STEAM 1991 and a look at the harbour in Spring 2017

Folkestone Harbour branch line steam special trains ran by Network Southeast in 1991, and a look at the scene in spring 2017.

[@barrydrocknrail2231]

Vintage Folkestone Harbour photos used with kind permission of Christine Warren. To view many more visit www.warrenpress.net/FolkestoneThenNow/FolkestoneThen_Now.html

[@angelaclemow1544]

Great video ! Thanks for sharing this...... What a sad sad sight this area is today, a shadow of its former self ..... we can only hope that in the future trains will run again into this station !!

[@barrydrocknrail2231]

Thanks Angela, glad you liked it. The Harbour Station is being renovated, and I believe railway carriages are to be situated there and used as a restaurant, (would be nice if they added a locomotive). The viaduct will be a walkway down to the Harbour. Unfortunately it seems that the railway is gone but not forgotten.

[@pfplowman]

I am old enough to remember R1 tanks thundering up the 1 in 30 with showers of cinders decending on us. Ferrys left so frequently that you could see two at a time on their way to Calais. I also remember the GWR pannier tanks. I have travelled over the line in the small hours as the technician on a Neptune Track Recording car. We nearly did not make it out. I have also walked the line in Railtrack days. Some of the chairs had my birth date on them. See our video at kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ3KkoWegsaeeq8

[@marcusharrison7704]

That’s the trouble of shutting all the railways outstations are used to be good for the Taurus come down and see how steam train tonight

[@barrydrocknrail2231]

The Loco crew member shown as Roger Wiles is spelt as his surname is pronounced, but I now believe the correct spelling is Roger Willes.

[@marcusharrison7704]

I can remember the hell steam trains going Diana are you should go down and enjoy it I should’ve made it all work with the town

[@marcusharrison7704]

The private investor should’ve put the money in and keep it Open as a tourist attraction