Confused video here. As far as I'm aware there has never been a passenger train ferry from Harwich. There was a ferry to Flushing at some time but this wasn't a train ferry. The only train ferry service to the best of my knowledge have been freight only train ferry services to either Zeebrugge or Dunkirk. The ferry departing in this video is not departing the Harwich TF terminal and is neither any of the Train Ferry 1, 2 or 3, nor the Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridge or Speedlink Vanguard. It looks like the Shepperton Ferry to me and as far as I'm aware she never operated out of Harwich, being mainly Dover based.
Nice shots, but the commentary is very inaccurate! Harwich train ferries only carried 12 passengers and never in sleeping cars! The Night Ferry service was Dover-Dunkirk
They did allow passengers, we took our car on holiday via Zeebrugge several times in the early sixties. I think the limit was 11 people.We ate in the officer's mess and the cabins were similar to the Arnhem and Amsterdam. The only down side was you never knew when she was going to sail!
Did the Harwich train ferry ever take "sleeper coaches"? The Dover train ferries did, but I believe Harwich train ferries were restricted to about six passengers per voyage -- and none if there was hazardous cargo aboard.
I thought the same the minute I saw it, I don't believe it's correct that passengers went with the train, as you said limited to the amount of passengers they could carry
There wasn't any passenger trains in the 70s loaded like that. The " boat " trains all finished at Parkeston ( Harwich International ) to join the ship's tied up at the Quay .
Confused video here. As far as I'm aware there has never been a passenger train ferry from Harwich. There was a ferry to Flushing at some time but this wasn't a train ferry. The only train ferry service to the best of my knowledge have been freight only train ferry services to either Zeebrugge or Dunkirk.
The ferry departing in this video is not departing the Harwich TF terminal and is neither any of the Train Ferry 1, 2 or 3, nor the Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridge or Speedlink Vanguard. It looks like the Shepperton Ferry to me and as far as I'm aware she never operated out of Harwich, being mainly Dover based.
Nice shots, but the commentary is very inaccurate! Harwich train ferries only carried 12 passengers and never in sleeping cars! The Night Ferry service was Dover-Dunkirk
They did allow passengers, we took our car on holiday via Zeebrugge several times in the early sixties. I think the limit was 11 people.We ate in the officer's mess and the cabins were similar to the Arnhem and Amsterdam. The only down side was you never knew when she was going to sail!
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Did the Harwich train ferry ever take "sleeper coaches"? The Dover train ferries did, but I believe Harwich train ferries were restricted to about six passengers per voyage -- and none if there was hazardous cargo aboard.
I thought the same the minute I saw it, I don't believe it's correct that passengers went with the train, as you said limited to the amount of passengers they could carry
There wasn't any passenger trains in the 70s loaded like that. The " boat " trains all finished at Parkeston ( Harwich International ) to join the ship's tied up at the Quay .
@@glpilpi6209 That confirms what I thought. Thank you.