Seaton Junction in Express Days
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- A story of the rise and decline of Seaton Junction, a part of Devon industrial and railway history in the small village of Shute, near Axminster. The coming of the station in 1860 led to the establishment of an Express Dairy Egg Packing plant and dairy, which sent milk daily to London until the late 1960's.
A great social history shown in this film. When we look back, life seems quite idillic and much less complicated than today. Lovely to learn the history of Seaton Junction. Many thanks.
In 1961 during a family holiday at Seaton age 14, I spent most days at Seaton Junction, with railway trips to Sidmouth and Exeter. Happy days, so sad to see how it is now, progress!!
A far cry from the situation at Seaton today sadly.
Days gone by! I imagine milk for London is now by road! What a backward step. Loved all those staff photographs, looks like a great team running the operation.
Comment from PICTON, South Island, New Zealand.
Not only is much of today's milk homogenised, but so is the whole business. Economy of scale was the (omnipresent) reason and blow those little things like rural employment, family farms and taste and choice.
Do you know how hard it is to recreate the joy of opening the door onto a frosty morning to retrieve your pinta from the doorstep?
Only to see the foil torn back and all that lovely cream at the top of your milk bottle stolen by a 'cheeky little sparrah‽'
Wow what an amazing collection of photos and film. Have always had a curiosity of the station, hotel etc. since moving to Devon 20 years' ago. Dream would be to buy station and outbuildings to create a museum and, of course, reopen the hotel. Hope the buildings do not fall to any kind of modern development
The Dairy Building and site is a wreck really! Junk Yard.
Station House is privately owned (by whom?) and every so often a planning app is put in to keep the ownership 'live'.
It could make a decent Holiday Let place but there are zero facilities locally, but some folk like that!
The station building would make a great home. Lots of folk like to holiday in quieter less commercial areas and it is pretty close to the coast there
An excellent collection of photos and footage. Thanks for sharing it.
As an ex Salisbury driver who has been through flying through there many times with a 159 I knew a little of its history but I was amazed at all this 😮
The Heavyweights at Seaton picture, I organised a retirement collection for my DI, the person who taught me to drive 159s and we gave him a framed print of it. He started at Salisbury shed in 1962 and fired engines going that way as well as driving the 50s etc.
Very enjoyable. I would have loved to have been able to visit in early 60's
1:10 A minor point - the “N” on the van is nothing to do with brakes. It indicates that it is “Non Common User” ie allocated to a particular traffic flow and cannot be used for general traffic over the network.
Good you included how it looks today at the end.
Nice to see how happy the expressed Dairy's workforce look, maybe they took good care of their staff.
A great production. I have visited the area many times, there is a surprising amount of infrastructure remaining at Seaton junction. I have often wondered why the person that purchased the Seaton branch for the tramway, demolished the station buildings. If what I was told is correct.
Nice to see 30048 in film; I had the smokebox numberplate for many years.
What I find strange is why the line to Seaton didn’t run along the main line into the bay platform at Axminster - seems odd having a junction station in the middle of nowhere when the facilities existed at the nearest town (where people would want to travel to from Seaton and vice versa).
This would have also meant expresses could make one stop and serve as connections to both branches simultaneously.
The long footbridge was still there last week, but the Station Building is now covered in Graffiti. So sad.
Nice content - some great history here. I could happily have done without the ill-matched music though (but hey,, I have a mute button). Is the video that jerky on the source material or is my video player malfunctioning?
Nice but the M7 is in the Seaton side platform, not bound for London but Seaton town.
Superb archive, thank you.
Great music - what is it ?
Shame to have ads in the middle
At 8:11 that was a bit of an abrupt stop by the M7 with water sloshing out of the tank.
The Southern Railway (and Region) wasn't averse to shunting coaches whilst passengers were still in them! Would Elf and Safe Tea allow this today? BTW, nice to see some of the splendid Jarvis Pacifics in full cry...
So sad ,
Interesting video but the text disappears too quick to read and study the picture.
You have the power to set the speed of delivery to your taste, as I'm sure you recall.
@@JP_TaVeryMuchI never think to play with the settings!
Gteat photos. Pity about the unnecessary and bloody awful music.
A great social history shown in this film. When we look back, life seems quite idillic and much less complicated than today. Lovely to learn the history of Seaton Junction. Many thanks.