Last Days on the Woodside-Selsdon Line c1983
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2016
- Cine film of the last days of operation on the now closed Woodside to Selsdon line. Also we board the last passenger train at Sanderstead to run via the said line to Elmers End. Photographed by Bruce Palmer on super 8 Kodachrome.
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Super footage. Remember this from my youth. Good that in this instance it was (eventually) replaced by something better.
Absolutely wondrous stuff. I've often wondered - on the front of all the TOPS train with yellow fronts the 4VEP or 2EPB or 4SUB or whatever, always looked hand painted. And it was almost always the same script. I always imagined there was one person whose job that was!! Any of you big-brained folk out there know?
The good old Selsdon Triangle (once you go in there you VANISH!) Travelled that line many times I used to live in Croydon (before it became more dangerous than Afganistan!)
I used to cross that bridge at 03:51 on the way home from school. Usually just in time to see a southbound 2 car train arriving at Selsdon station.
That's cool.
Interesting old footage. I remember the 5753 was a regular train on the West Croydon to Wimbledon line. We lived at Waddon Marsh. I’m no trainspotter but It’s amazing how the numbers stick in your mind after seeing the trains go past for so many years.
Really excellent. Spotted myself in the film..!!!!!!
When you were allowed to stick your head out of the window!
I used to live at Woodside road decadea ago by the footbridge into Ashburton Park..So I remember the EPBs and the memories!!
Great recording of railway history, especially to see the old Sanderstead station and all the original signalling along the lines. Much sadness in watching though. That's progress I guess. I used to travel to London regularly from Upper Warlingham and used to wonder as I passed through Sanderstead about the closed line to Woodside and what it was like. Now I know, thank you. Have to also say, I miss greatly the old DMU's. Can't stand the modern replacements.
Good footage for posterity and some heavy sparking from the Bulleid 2EPB@ 3.42 on.😮😊
Bingham Road! Yay! Good to see it again, but very sad it’s not still there.
wow, fantastic footage!!
Brilliant!!
I remember seeing the station entrance sign at Bingham Road for sale at Collector's Corner - I wonder who bought it? I also remember the gas lights at Selsdon and he sequence of detonators on that last train So long ago...
Love this channel, stuff I never got to see.
Today the section from Elmers End to Addiscombe is part of the Croydon Tramlink which opened in 2000, the Addiscombe BR branch closed in 1997 to make way for the trams
Enjoyed walking the abandoned track bed in the late 80s with my girlfriend. Part of it is now used by Tramlink.
Some minor health and safety issues back then.
What is the music?
can someone tell me when sanderstead station is featured
at 3.29, last train to travel over the Woodside-Selsdon arrives Sanderstead Station.
3:29
Why was this electrified fully operational line closed ?