@@LondonTransport466 it's uniqueness and the extravaganza and excitement it brings is incomparable to anything in the country, in sum way it's like taking down the Clifton suspension bridge in "Bristol" in or the cern Abbas giant
I remember as a child going on the Boat Train to Weymouth to catch the ferry to Jersey... and it was amazing being on the train going along the street in Weymouth - we did it 6 or 7 times in the '80s. Looking out and seeing the cars so close and holidaymakers looking up at us was a memory that is still with to this day. Shame it still doesn't run to the Ferry Terminal anymore... but great memories!
MY family and I went to weymouth in 1986 and on the last day there we visited the harbour to watch the fishermen land a haul of crabs, We heard a strange noise behind us and had a shock to see the train coming along to catch the ferry. I have never forgot that moment - pure magic
In my Youth, my Parent and I went on holiday to Jersey, we caught the ferry from Weymouth, and in those days it was not, drive on, drive off, a crane, lifted your car in to the hold, one at a time. after that was done we had to wait for the boat to sail, so we would often have Breakfast in Weymouth, and this line was in hourly use (I believe) ie there were trains (Class 08 as I know them now, and ablaze with Wasp stripes!) ran up and down the street. I was totally stunned as a 6 to 8 year old watching these Loco go up and down the street. we kept going to jersey each year, but each year bought changes ir roll on, roll off, new docks both ends, but this video bough many memories flooding back. (THANK YOU!)
Great shots Fred, I was in Weymouth last week (08/2013) and the tramway is still in existence. It is still connected to the national network and not used. It would be a massive tourist draw to operate a service over the line. It shows a terrible lack of foresight/ability that the council haven't developed the idea. Please, can someone takeover the tramway before it is lost!
Brilliant footage of Old Bill gradually making its way to the old pier . This line will be missed . So glad you shared this video . Memories is old school should be kept alive . Brilliant
@Stig Martin Thats amazing haha, but probably the reason why I haven't seen thia is because cars are much heavier now. Either that or someone might get their phone out LOL
Absolutely fantastic video. I well remember travelling via Weymouth Harbour station and British Rail ferry to Jersey. So having experienced this route both as a passenger and later as a Weymouth holidaymaker, it brings back some very happy memories.
Wow, thanks for posting this. I moved to weymouth about 6 weeks later and moved to Commercial Road, never saw such an event in all the 10 years I lived there. Great piece of nostalgic history
I’m glad I’ve seen this. I remember being in Weymouth and seeing the train going down the Main Street. None of my friends believed me and I have to admit, I wouldnt have believed it had I not seen it It was a great sight!
Awesome to watch this video and reminisce. I've lived in Weymouth since 1978 and used to love sitting on Alexandra footbridge and watch the class 33s and 47s roll in and chug back out. It was also great seeing the trains go along the harbour to the Sea Link ferry terminal. Thank for uploading so I can watch them once more.
This is common place in towns in Switzerland and the like - Train / Trams coming through the streets but to see this actually happening in the UK is incredible. Especially with the standard coaches and so many of them, it really is an historic sight. I so enjoyed the sight of all the manoeuvres to get the train through the quite narrow streets. Preserve for years to come (the film) unfortunately not the railway line.
This brings back memories of a holiday in Guernsey in 1965. The ferry was a "car ferry" - the few cars that were carried had to be loaded into the hold of the ship by dockside crane! Very nice video.
Took me back to my childhood in the 60s, holidays down to Weymouth by train and then the ferry to Guernsey. Amazing as the train went through the town. Thanks for posting this.
Another reason why I like this is that it conjures memories of parts of Hull where I was born and grew up where there were certain parts of the road along Spring Bank that looked like they still bore the relatively recent scars or traces of tram or railway lines . And it just so happened that there was a coal yard or something where you often saw engines parked up , quite similar to this gorgeous old locomotive beast . So obviously at some point in recent to not so recent history goods trains carrying coal would come along there via Hull Paragon Station and drop off coal supplies for the houses 🏘 and households of Hull who depended on a supply of coal to keep their fires and stoves lit . I hope it’s still there . I always had visions of them stopping the traffic in a similar way to this video, at the junction of Spring Bank , Chantlands Avenue and Spring Bank West so that the train could pass and deliver it’s supply of coal for the people of Hull to the depot there , though I never actually saw it.
A really wonderful reminder of holidays in Weymouth back in the 60's and 70's and seeing the train making its way down to the quay, quite an awesome sight.
If you had a Weymouth Town to London ticket, you could travel on the boat train from Weymouth Quay on payment of a 'tramway fee' and I still have a tramway fee ticket! Was worth the money for the entertainment of traversing the streets and looking into the windows of the passing houses. Thanks for sharing this wonderful clip of nostalgia.
I remember going through the streets of Weymouth on the boat train to Weymouth Quay several times in the '70s and '80s, en route to holidays in the Channel Islands. Even then when it was a regular scheduled service I remember cars having to be shifted out of the way before we could proceed. I visited Weymouth today - the tracks are still there in the road but sadly it doesn't look like they will ever be used again.
We went to Jersey from Weymouth. We couldn't believe the train going through the streets. Such a shame it doesn't happen any more. A direct journey from London.
Fabulous, thanks for posting. I remember as a lad the trains used to do this sort of thing in Ipswich, they would cross at obscure places and run right along the whole dock front, Alas, these are just memories now as the tracks are ripped up and the docks are now one of those horrid 'Waterfront developments@.
Saw this happen several times when I lived in Weymouth... there was always advance notice and the roads were quite clearly marked to keep clear in case of trains.
I was in Weymouth on holiday as a young boy in the early 70s. I saw the train on the tramway! Awesome sight! I tried to recreate it on my model railway when I got home!
Great stuff, the more so because I was on that train, which was part of a railtour from Waterloo, back via western mainline to waterloo. Even more so because I can be seen, black beard & dark glasses leaning out of a door window at 9 min 3 sec. I really enjoyed the old memories this video brought up. Brian
Used to run that train daily along there, my Grandparents lived on the otherside of the harbour ..So I grew up watching it...Always loved..I see this was filmed three weeks after my grandfather died...In Weymouth Hospital,,,
In February 2020, it was reported that £1.1 million had been awarded by the British Department for Transport to facilitate the removal of the track as it was "In a deteriorated state" and was no longer usable.
I can remember as a kid (I'm now 66) watching an old steam train doing this very same journey. I was eating fish and chips... and Weymouth still do the best fish and chips anywhere. I should know... we still go every year!
I was too young to remember it, but in the 50th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in Weymouth, me and my Dad apparently walked alongside one of the trains as it made its way slowly through the streets
Fascinating.....I thought I had seen almost everything but to see a railway locomotive and carriages moving down the narrow streets AMAZING. I so wish I had had that experience. Thank you for sharing this Gem.
great film - I remember travelling on the branch in the days of steam 1959? hauled by an 0-6-0 tank and in 1977 with a Class 33 diesel - great film - thanks for posting
It was lovely to watch this bought back memories for me when i was a kid living in Weymouth and i also lived on Portland for a while,i still have family living in Weymouth.
i remember the first time i saw this, couldnt belive my eyes, i was about 11 or 12 and went down to Weymouth from Bath on my own on the train just to have 3 goes on the gokarts, school holidays.!
Cor!! what an amazing time we were having in the presence of a class 33 crompton diesel...took me back to second manning @ hither green depot in the 70s..dark days indeed
To add to all this excitement, in the late '60'- 70's during the summer months, we use to load the channel Islands tomatoes off the quayside on the raised platform by the rear of the beach front hotels. There would be as many as 20 articulate lorries there from 6am to around 4 or 5 ,pm. It was fun when you had to shift them off and back onto the quay to let the train through. It did give the holiday makers something else to look at too..it was organised chaos at times, but part of the job, and after loading, sheeting and roping the trailers a quick dip in the sea, before setting off to deliver the toms to markets all over the UK. Anyone remember seeing the lorries loading ?
In 1960/61when working as a permanent way draughtsman in Exeter I was asked to design a sign with illuminated studs to fix on the rear of boat trains approaching Weymouth Quay To prevent vehicles running into the rear of the train which I duly did On fixing it to the rear of a train on a Monday I received a call two days later asking me to design another one as a vehicle as run into it and broken it
Good film, Fred . . . there's an insistent flavour of the good old British 'get it done and keep cheerful'' attitude throughout the proceedings! Love it! Thanks from Canada!
Random question, but at 6:10, does anyone know how the train manages to go right on the track and not back left (it’s original path)? I notice there is no mechanics on the points.
As a Channel Islander, I used the Weymouth Harbour Tramway many times during the sixties and seventies. Even in those days I believe it only operated for the summer tourist traffic, and I recollect having to make my own way from the port to Weymouth Town station in the winter. In the late 1970's the emphasis moved to ro-ro ferries, and I believe the tramway was last regularly used for passenger traffic in 1987. It's hardly surprising therefore that some motorists may have been caught out by the 1994 "special". That was not typical of my earlier experience.
Great footage. Health and safety would have had a field day had they been around back then. I love the bouncing of the cars out of the way. Thank you for sharing.
Health and Safety was around back then. The only reason things like this stop is because they are commercially unviable and in Weymouths case, the ferry terminal closed.
It must've been quite a sight to see these big trains on tracks in the middle of the street (which is more common in North America) 4:16 that reminds me of the testing days of the kC streetcar system in early 2016! the cars would park too close to the tracks! As of July 2016, these tracks are still there! Maybe they should add a handcar attraction on these tracks!
Weymouth was the only place in England where full-size, main line passenger and freight trains ran down the middle of a main road, albeit at just 4 mph!
This is the kind of thing I’d see in a dream while I’m sleeping. Something that happened in my dream but makes no sense like how would a train have been driving on a road
I done this trip on a Hertfordshire Railtours Pullman Christmas Special in the late 80's. I think the locals were better informed then of us coming! I think this run has to be done every now and again or the local council can close it as with Public Footpaths but I'm sure someone will put me right on this.(July 2014 track bed still there).
The class 33 is a small locomotive that were usually to be found in Hampshire and Dorset. Just imagine a ponderous class 40 going down the street to Weymouth harbour.
Has anyone got any clips of my late Grandad driving this train I was told that he drove it. His name was Mr lenard Dominey (budgie) cause he never stopped churping talking.
Fantastic. Im a Dorset lad so no stranger to this in the 60s when you could get a train direct to the Sealink ferry to Jersey. Golden memories. Weymouth was lovely then. Complete Shit hole now sadly.
My boyhood family holidays were always to the likes Bognor or Weymouth and I remember well going with my Dad in the mornings to sit on the grass and watch steam locomotives shunting (around Cutom House Quay I think) and encountering the occasion fery train later; 1963, short trousers, any flavour ice cream you want so long as it's vanilla and,,,space. Where did we go wrong.
As a child in the 1960's I remember catching the boat train to Weymouth Quay, from Sheffield, so we could board the ferry to Jersey. My dad worked for British Rail, so got free travel for us all. The ferries were also run by British Rail. I remember watching them load the cars onto the ferry by crane, no 'Roll on Roll off' in them days!
TheSaintST1 i suspect the reason that the tracks have never been dug up is to do with the strategic value of having a port directly connected to the main rail network should Hard Times come again (assuming of course that said hard times aren’t over in ten minutes).
A regular steam~hauled, Summer~only dining service from London Waterloo to Weymouth Quay, connecting with a vintage Paddle Steamer doing a day trip along the Jurassic Coast to Lulworth Cove, would be a license to print money! I can remember riding in the return Boat Train working from Weymouth Quay to Bournemouth in, I suspect, 1987 or thereabouts, and hanging out of a droplight to take photographs as we chugged majestically along Weymouth Quay. It was the experience of a lifetime!
@@stevecarter8810 - adequate advanced warning was given for this 'special' train. It's just some people are arrogant. Do 'Stop' signs need to say when?
My Dad (from local rock band called The Haze) lives in Weymouth and I've never been to Weymouth (I live in Aberdeen) but I hope when I do visit that they do this again with the train, I would love to see it running the tram-line.
I'm must be getting old as I remember it being pulled by a steam tank engine something like a pannier tank and they still had the same problems in the 60's.
In the steam locomotive days, there were few car parking spaces along our harbourside and the frequency of railway traffic meant that only total idiots, or unsuspecting visitors, left their vehicles near the quay tramway.
You are correct Robert. I remember being on holiday with my parents in Weymouth in 1962. Being an avid train spotter I was fascinated by this train going through the streets. It was pulled by a pannier tank steam engine in those days.
In the 70s and 80s my family and I holidayed in Weymouth. I was a kid and we used to get fish & chips from The Marlborough and sit on the wall at the harbour near the bridge that opens and watch the train pass. Awesome. Also fond memories of the Chapelhay pub up top. Why did this train route cease? Cutbacks? The end of the ferry service or health and safety?
I vaguely remember sitting in a pub in Weymouth watching a train go down the street and wandering if I'd had too much to drink. Dose it still run down there ?
henry twigger Not any more, such a shame as it was lovely seeing them creep along the harbour! Tracks are still in place though....they catch out plenty of cyclists who end up face planted in the tarmac!
I remember using the service frequently during the 60's to 80's. Cars were always parking across the lines and the train would have to stop whilst the cars were removed. Sometimes the journey from Weymouth to the docks would take ages because of having to remove the cars such that I would worry that the boat would leave before we got there.
goatmanjohn I was going to reply that I too have recurring dreams about trains running on sections of road (with no rails though). The video is the first I've seen it outside of a dream!
This brings back memories of hols in Weymouth as a child. The boat train would creep along the street right next to the putting green!!! Probably pulled by a 0-6-0 pannier tank or similar . Great video.
I travelled on this line in 1980 when there was a regular service from the harbour. It was a little strange moving past shop fronts at 20mph while seated in a train. Weirder still, being in the end carriage when the engine left the road section and accelerates was the houses and pedestrians speeding past the window.
20 mph??? The speed limit on the street-running section was always 4 mph or walking pace, whichever was slower. I'd have liked to have seen the two shunters escorting the train down Weymouth Quay trying to stay ahead of it at 20 mph!
Great Video, I had many holidays in Weymouth when I was a kid and remember that train well, always fascinating to see. Thanks for the vid and memories.
remember as child watching these trains and loved to see them. i see loads of comments below about what people would say about bouncing there cars out the way.........well the track was marked with lines....they should have not parked there to start with....good video well loved to watch, old memories
I have to confess to having thought much the same with trams in coming into Manchester Piccadilly - www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4775504,-2.2320119,3a,75y,167.99h,87.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4g0NMn6BWrZ7XSZHIiHabQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 - the number of of times people seem to ignore the yellow hatching and the trams end up having to wait, even when they've been green lighted.
Saw the line in use in the early 1980s, and what a good 10 minute view this is with all the shoving vehicles out of the way, guard with a flag and the rest…
It’s so sad to see the tracks of this line being torn up and taken out of the road in 2021. I will forever miss this line
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One of my fondest memories of Weymouth was seeing the Boat Train coming through the Town.
MAGIC !!
Why did they spend all that money destroying it 🤬
@@20PhantoM07 What was the point in keeping it?
@@LondonTransport466 it's uniqueness and the extravaganza and excitement it brings is incomparable to anything in the country, in sum way it's like taking down the Clifton suspension bridge in "Bristol" in or the cern Abbas giant
I remember as a child going on the Boat Train to Weymouth to catch the ferry to Jersey... and it was amazing being on the train going along the street in Weymouth - we did it 6 or 7 times in the '80s. Looking out and seeing the cars so close and holidaymakers looking up at us was a memory that is still with to this day. Shame it still doesn't run to the Ferry Terminal anymore... but great memories!
MY family and I went to weymouth in 1986 and on the last day there we visited the harbour to watch the fishermen land a haul of crabs, We heard a strange noise behind us and had a shock to see the train coming along to catch the ferry. I have never forgot that moment - pure magic
Great retro footage. Gotta love the 90's. Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece of rail history. Thumbs up, regards from Poland!
In my Youth, my Parent and I went on holiday to Jersey, we caught the ferry from Weymouth, and in those days it was not, drive on, drive off, a crane, lifted your car in to the hold, one at a time. after that was done we had to wait for the boat to sail, so we would often have Breakfast in Weymouth, and this line was in hourly use (I believe) ie there were trains (Class 08 as I know them now, and ablaze with Wasp stripes!) ran up and down the street. I was totally stunned as a 6 to 8 year old watching these Loco go up and down the street. we kept going to jersey each year, but each year bought changes ir roll on, roll off, new docks both ends, but this video bough many memories flooding back. (THANK YOU!)
I wasn’t even born when this video was filmed but I’m glad someone filmed it so I could see it
Great shots Fred, I was in Weymouth last week (08/2013) and the tramway is still in existence. It is still connected to the national network and not used. It would be a massive tourist draw to operate a service over the line. It shows a terrible lack of foresight/ability that the council haven't developed the idea. Please, can someone takeover the tramway before it is lost!
Brilliant footage of Old Bill gradually making its way to the old pier . This line will be missed . So glad you shared this video . Memories is old school should be kept alive . Brilliant
I love how they just rocked and bounced the cars out of the way. I would've love to see this in person!
It's surprising how few people you need to move a car. I've done so myself (with eight friends).
Very normal in the 1970s - seen it numerous times back then. Probably harder on modern cars than on old leaf-sprung Fords.
@Stig Martin Thats amazing haha, but probably the reason why I haven't seen thia is because cars are much heavier now. Either that or someone might get their phone out LOL
I did see this in person, as a kid in the 1960's
Absolutely fantastic video. I well remember travelling via Weymouth Harbour station and British Rail ferry to Jersey. So having experienced this route both as a passenger and later as a Weymouth holidaymaker, it brings back some very happy memories.
Wow, thanks for posting this. I moved to weymouth about 6 weeks later and moved to Commercial Road, never saw such an event in all the 10 years I lived there. Great piece of nostalgic history
I’m glad I’ve seen this. I remember being in Weymouth and seeing the train going down the Main Street. None of my friends believed me and I have to admit, I wouldnt have believed it had I not seen it It was a great sight!
Awesome to watch this video and reminisce. I've lived in Weymouth since 1978 and used to love sitting on Alexandra footbridge and watch the class 33s and 47s roll in and chug back out. It was also great seeing the trains go along the harbour to the Sea Link ferry terminal. Thank for uploading so I can watch them once more.
Went down this track on a Pathfinder tour way back. Amazingly close to cars, never forget this. Brilliant filming. Thank you 😊
This is common place in towns in Switzerland and the like - Train / Trams coming through the streets but to see this actually happening in the UK is incredible. Especially with the standard coaches and so many of them, it really is an historic sight. I so enjoyed the sight of all the manoeuvres to get the train through the quite narrow streets. Preserve for years to come (the film) unfortunately not the railway line.
This brings back memories of a holiday in Guernsey in 1965. The ferry was a "car ferry" - the few cars that were carried had to be loaded into the hold of the ship by dockside crane! Very nice video.
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Took me back to my childhood in the 60s, holidays down to Weymouth by train and then the ferry to Guernsey. Amazing as the train went through the town. Thanks for posting this.
Another reason why I like this is that it conjures memories of parts of Hull where I was born and grew up where there were certain parts of the road along Spring Bank that looked like they still bore the relatively recent scars or traces of tram or railway lines . And it just so happened that there was a coal yard or something where you often saw engines parked up , quite similar to this gorgeous old locomotive beast . So obviously at some point in recent to not so recent history goods trains carrying coal would come along there via Hull Paragon Station and drop off coal supplies for the houses 🏘 and households of Hull who depended on a supply of coal to keep their fires and stoves lit . I hope it’s still there .
I always had visions of them stopping the traffic in a similar way to this video, at the junction of Spring Bank , Chantlands Avenue and Spring Bank West so that the train could pass and deliver it’s supply of coal for the people of Hull to the depot there , though I never actually saw it.
What a great piece of film, Doesn't seem long ago 1994 but haven't times change. Looking back life seemed a bot more relaxed than 2019
A really wonderful reminder of holidays in Weymouth back in the 60's and 70's and seeing the train making its way down to the quay, quite an awesome sight.
What a fascinating video. Such a shame that the branch has now passed into the history books. Thank you for being there to record it.
If you had a Weymouth Town to London ticket, you could travel on the boat train from Weymouth Quay on payment of a 'tramway fee' and I still have a tramway fee ticket! Was worth the money for the entertainment of traversing the streets and looking into the windows of the passing houses. Thanks for sharing this wonderful clip of nostalgia.
I remember going through the streets of Weymouth on the boat train to Weymouth Quay several times in the '70s and '80s, en route to holidays in the Channel Islands. Even then when it was a regular scheduled service I remember cars having to be shifted out of the way before we could proceed.
I visited Weymouth today - the tracks are still there in the road but sadly it doesn't look like they will ever be used again.
We went to Jersey from Weymouth. We couldn't believe the train going through the streets. Such a shame it doesn't happen any more. A direct journey from London.
Fabulous, thanks for posting.
I remember as a lad the trains used to do this sort of thing in Ipswich, they would cross at obscure places and run right along the whole dock front,
Alas, these are just memories now as the tracks are ripped up and the docks are now one of those horrid 'Waterfront developments@.
Dunno if they still run, but the Weymouth rails are still in place.
No regular, scheduled service since 1987!
Saw this happen several times when I lived in Weymouth... there was always advance notice and the roads were quite clearly marked to keep clear in case of trains.
but there were always people that ignored them...
@@wordsmith52 If there is one thing you can`t plan for, it`s the Idiot factor!!
@@stephensmith4480 exactly...it would be even worse today
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Hi! Thanks for posting this... I recently did an video update just before they removed the line. I will do another when they have finally finished...
I was in Weymouth on holiday as a young boy in the early 70s. I saw the train on the tramway! Awesome sight! I tried to recreate it on my model railway when I got home!
Great stuff, the more so because I was on that train, which was part of a railtour from Waterloo, back via western mainline to waterloo.
Even more so because I can be seen, black beard & dark glasses leaning out of a door window at 9 min 3 sec.
I really enjoyed the old memories this video brought up.
Brian
Can you tell more about it? Where can I find out more
When was this video taken ?
@@margarets195 Can you read?
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I remember this well.i thought that it was kind of broom hanging out not realizing that it was a person with brushchops !
Amazing how 33 109 is still going
Used to run that train daily along there, my Grandparents lived on the otherside of the harbour ..So I grew up watching it...Always loved..I see this was filmed three weeks after my grandfather died...In Weymouth Hospital,,,
Thanks for uploading this, it's this sort of thing makes a place unique and interesting, I hope the council don't destroy the track.
In February 2020, it was reported that £1.1 million had been awarded by the British Department for Transport to facilitate the removal of the track as it was "In a deteriorated state" and was no longer usable.
How can you re-surface the road?
Thank you for filming and sharing this. It won't be long before people forget entirely that a railway ran down that street.
I can remember as a kid (I'm now 66) watching an old steam train doing this very same journey. I was eating fish and chips... and Weymouth still do the best fish and chips anywhere. I should know... we still go every year!
I was too young to remember it, but in the 50th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in Weymouth, me and my Dad apparently walked alongside one of the trains as it made its way slowly through the streets
Just come back from holiday in Weymouth and I realise now why there were tracks on the road! Lovely place.
Fascinating.....I thought I had seen almost everything but to see a railway locomotive and carriages moving down the narrow streets AMAZING. I so wish I had had that experience. Thank you for sharing this Gem.
great film - I remember travelling on the branch in the days of steam 1959? hauled by an 0-6-0 tank and in 1977 with a Class 33 diesel - great film - thanks for posting
It was lovely to watch this bought back memories for me when i was a kid living in Weymouth and i also lived on Portland for a while,i still have family living in Weymouth.
i remember the first time i saw this, couldnt belive my eyes, i was about 11 or 12 and went down to Weymouth from Bath on my own on the train just to have 3 goes on the gokarts, school holidays.!
Driver shouts to young PC at 6:07 "you'll be on RUclips one day!". PC replies, "what is RUclips?!". Driver responds,"....buy some shares!"
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Thanks really enjoyed this. A difficult line to operate with all those parked cars. Sad to see that the rails are to be lifted and salvaged for scrap.
i remember seeing that on a daily basis in the 70s, it was always an exciting spectacle. great video, loved seeing the cars from my youth.
Cor!! what an amazing time we were having in the presence of a class 33 crompton diesel...took me back to second manning @ hither green depot in the 70s..dark days indeed
To add to all this excitement, in the late '60'- 70's during the summer months, we use to load the channel Islands tomatoes off the quayside on the raised platform by the rear of the beach front hotels. There would be as many as 20 articulate lorries there from 6am to around 4 or 5 ,pm. It was fun when you had to shift them off and back onto the quay to let the train through. It did give the holiday makers something else to look at too..it was organised chaos at times, but part of the job, and after loading, sheeting and roping the trailers a quick dip in the sea, before setting off to deliver the toms to markets all over the UK. Anyone remember seeing the lorries loading ?
Brought back memories of a family holiday to Guernsey back in 1969. It would be a great pity if the line were permanently closed.
In 1960/61when working as a permanent way draughtsman in Exeter I was asked to design a sign with illuminated studs to fix on the rear of boat trains approaching Weymouth Quay
To prevent vehicles
running into the rear of the train which I duly did
On fixing it to the rear of a train on a Monday
I received a call two days later asking me to design
another one as a vehicle as run into it and broken it
Brilliant memories of a bye gone era when we didn't let cars dominate everywhere!
Went there couple of years ago, the roads were chocablock!
Good film, Fred . . . there's an insistent flavour of the good old British 'get it done and keep cheerful'' attitude throughout the proceedings! Love it! Thanks from Canada!
Fascinating! The tracks are still there. I enjoyed seeing that again!
Karen Rendell haha karen
Random question, but at 6:10, does anyone know how the train manages to go right on the track and not back left (it’s original path)? I notice there is no mechanics on the points.
I'm frequently down in Weymouth and every time I drive down that road I think what shame it is that no rail traffic has run on it since 1999.
As a Channel Islander, I used the Weymouth Harbour Tramway many times during the sixties and seventies. Even in those days I believe it only operated for the summer tourist traffic, and I recollect having to make my own way from the port to Weymouth Town station in the winter.
In the late 1970's the emphasis moved to ro-ro ferries, and I believe the tramway was last regularly used for passenger traffic in 1987.
It's hardly surprising therefore that some motorists may have been caught out by the 1994 "special". That was not typical of my earlier experience.
One of the few street running routes in Britain, Great vid m8!
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Wow. Never seen this before . Beautiful
After all these years ...so I was right, my car was further to the left than when I parked.
HAhhaahaha nice one
So it was you who stole my car and parked it there - Nice big fine for that! 😉😊 Happy New Year.👍
28YorkshireRose12 happy new year!
Idiot parking
That’s a great film. Thank you for recording this for posterity 👍👍👍
Great footage. Health and safety would have had a field day had they been around back then. I love the bouncing of the cars out of the way. Thank you for sharing.
Health and Safety was around back then. The only reason things like this stop is because they are commercially unviable and in Weymouths case, the ferry terminal closed.
It must've been quite a sight to see these big trains on tracks in the middle of the street (which is more common in North America)
4:16 that reminds me of the testing days of the kC streetcar system in early 2016! the cars would park too close to the tracks!
As of July 2016, these tracks are still there! Maybe they should add a handcar attraction on these tracks!
Weymouth was the only place in England where full-size, main line passenger and freight trains ran down the middle of a main road, albeit at just 4 mph!
This is the kind of thing I’d see in a dream while I’m sleeping. Something that happened in my dream but makes no sense like how would a train have been driving on a road
Great & awesome video as always....True rail therapy...I like IT!!!! Thumbs UP from Romania
Came for the diesel train, stayed for the 90's nostalgia.
i dont even know what im doing here but seeing all those 90's cars was a cool trip
Very good film. I travelled on The Weymouth Tramway, when I was young to catch the ferry over to Jersey.
I done this trip on a Hertfordshire Railtours Pullman Christmas Special in the late 80's. I think the locals were better informed then of us coming! I think this run has to be done every now and again or the local council can close it as with Public Footpaths but I'm sure someone will put me right on this.(July 2014 track bed still there).
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Hasn't been used since 1999.
Wow. I would not argue with that on the road!!
something you rarely see now. also what is it about the 90s there's just this look and feel that i miss about it.
Rarely? ...... There hasn't been a train run down to the quay since the early 1990's, when the line to Weymouth was electrified.
@@pulaski1 I meant in general around the country.
70s was better, far less traffic. Progress. Just one of those things that cannot be stopped I guess. But a fabulous sight while it lasted!
Thank you Fred Ivey for that great bit of footage - much appreciated!
Just to say thank you for posting this video.
The class 33 is a small locomotive that were usually to be found in Hampshire and Dorset. Just imagine a ponderous class 40 going down the street to Weymouth harbour.
I think it probably happened!
Has anyone got any clips of my late Grandad driving this train I was told that he drove it. His name was Mr lenard Dominey (budgie) cause he never stopped churping talking.
One of the most surreal video's in my recommendations 😄
Fantastic. Im a Dorset lad so no stranger to this in the 60s when you could get a train direct to the Sealink ferry to Jersey. Golden memories. Weymouth was lovely then. Complete Shit hole now sadly.
Filton Kingswood hmmm Weymouth is not a shit hole it’s lovely every place gets riffraff I’m afraid
You've never been to Redcar clearly ha ha
Does Hugh F-W know?
He's right. It is a shit whole.
My boyhood family holidays were always to the likes Bognor or Weymouth and I remember well going with my Dad in the mornings to sit on the grass and watch steam locomotives shunting (around Cutom House Quay I think) and encountering the occasion fery train later; 1963, short trousers, any flavour ice cream you want so long as it's vanilla and,,,space. Where did we go wrong.
As a child in the 1960's I remember catching the boat train to Weymouth Quay, from Sheffield, so we could board the ferry to Jersey. My dad worked for British Rail, so got free travel for us all. The ferries were also run by British Rail. I remember watching them load the cars onto the ferry by crane, no 'Roll on Roll off' in them days!
That line is still legally operational too. Hasn't been shut down
You mean it could still run a tram if they decided to?
plain and simple, this is a tourist attraction. the council should be promoting it not shutting it down. how often do trains run along it?
vsv nrg never any more!
TheSaintST1 i suspect the reason that the tracks have never been dug up is to do with the strategic value of having a port directly connected to the main rail network should Hard Times come again (assuming of course that said hard times aren’t over in ten minutes).
Dorset Dumpling we have plenty of bigger ports linked to the rail network making Weymouth's port irrelevent in hard times.
A regular steam~hauled, Summer~only dining service from London Waterloo to Weymouth Quay, connecting with a vintage Paddle Steamer doing a day trip along the Jurassic Coast to Lulworth Cove, would be a license to print money! I can remember riding in the return Boat Train working from Weymouth Quay to Bournemouth in, I suspect, 1987 or thereabouts, and hanging out of a droplight to take photographs as we chugged majestically along Weymouth Quay. It was the experience of a lifetime!
The human race never ceases to astound me. What part of 'KEEP CLEAR - TRAINS' didn't those cretins understand?
The part where they had to modify their behaviour to accommodate the needs of others.
Well, it didn't say WHEN to keep clear, or WHEN trains...!
Well maybe they didn't see the tracks.
@@stevecarter8810 - adequate advanced warning was given for this 'special' train.
It's just some people are arrogant. Do 'Stop' signs need to say when?
@@Meddled That has been lost in today's Britain.
Unfortunately all the track is being ripped up on October 2020 it will be very sad
I think the tracks are still in place but not used
As a Weymouther, I can confirm
@@mcderminator15_28 it's a shame really I think
My Dad (from local rock band called The Haze) lives in Weymouth and I've never been to Weymouth (I live in Aberdeen) but I hope when I do visit that they do this again with the train, I would love to see it running the tram-line.
I'm must be getting old as I remember it being pulled by a steam tank engine something like a pannier tank and they still had the same problems in the 60's.
In the steam locomotive days, there were few car parking spaces along our harbourside and the frequency of railway traffic meant that only total idiots, or unsuspecting visitors, left their vehicles near the quay tramway.
You are correct Robert. I remember being on holiday with my parents in Weymouth in 1962. Being an avid train spotter I was fascinated by this train going through the streets. It was pulled by a pannier tank steam engine in those days.
In the 70s and 80s my family and I holidayed in Weymouth. I was a kid and we used to get fish & chips from The Marlborough and sit on the wall at the harbour near the bridge that opens and watch the train pass. Awesome. Also fond memories of the Chapelhay pub up top. Why did this train route cease? Cutbacks? The end of the ferry service or health and safety?
Remember this train very well--used to put a penny on the line and it would be twice as big after the train ran over it
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I tried that with my todger...alas no joy
@@steviewonder2049 😂maybe next time mate
@@steviewonder2049 Hahahaha too funny😂😂
I vaguely remember sitting in a pub in Weymouth watching a train go down the street and wandering if I'd had too much to drink.
Dose it still run down there ?
henry twigger Not any more, such a shame as it was lovely seeing them creep along the harbour! Tracks are still in place though....they catch out plenty of cyclists who end up face planted in the tarmac!
We're you drinking in the Prince Albert bar?
The locomotive now lives at the east lancs railway, in Bury.
I remember using the service frequently during the 60's to 80's. Cars were always parking across the lines and the train would have to stop whilst the cars were removed. Sometimes the journey from Weymouth to the docks would take ages because of having to remove the cars such that I would worry that the boat would leave before we got there.
This is like a dream.
A very pleasant dream, I hope, and not a nightmare!
Yes, a good dream, but a strange one. I've dreamt about being on a train that's going down a street with cars and people; it was just like this.
goatmanjohn I was going to reply that I too have recurring dreams about trains running on sections of road (with no rails though). The video is the first I've seen it outside of a dream!
Was on this train in 1978 as we travelled to Jersey on a Sealink ship. Got the train from Waterloo if I remember.
The track was still there in 2009. It would be nice to see street running rail traffic like this again
It's was still there on Tuesday
still here today, Sat 28th July 2018 🙋
This brings back memories of hols in Weymouth as a child. The boat train would creep along the street right next to the putting green!!! Probably pulled by a 0-6-0 pannier tank or similar .
Great video.
I travelled on this line in 1980 when there was a regular service from the harbour. It was a little strange moving past shop fronts at 20mph while seated in a train. Weirder still, being in the end carriage when the engine left the road section and accelerates was the houses and pedestrians speeding past the window.
20 mph??? The speed limit on the street-running section was always 4 mph or walking pace, whichever was slower. I'd have liked to have seen the two shunters escorting the train down Weymouth Quay trying to stay ahead of it at 20 mph!
Just missed the old blue Volkswagen Beetle. Christmas 1994. Have trains stopped running through the streets of Weymouth to the harbour?
The Cops are full of patience.. Is the train still in operation??
Not the last 20 years.
This was a 'special' that cost a fortune to ride on from London, with fancy carriages and proper meals served.
I remember seeing that everyday when I was a teenager in the 1970,s so sad it's gone.
That was a cool video!
An incredible sight. Loved the trains from the 70s anyway but seeing one like this!
Great Video, I had many holidays in Weymouth when I was a kid and remember that train well, always fascinating to see. Thanks for the vid and memories.
remember as child watching these trains and loved to see them. i see loads of comments below about what people would say about bouncing there cars out the way.........well the track was marked with lines....they should have not parked there to start with....good video well loved to watch, old memories
I'd have fitted a snowplough and driven through them!
So would I!
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It wouldn't need a snow plow to do that.
It would likely derail the whole thing
I have to confess to having thought much the same with trams in coming into Manchester Piccadilly - www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4775504,-2.2320119,3a,75y,167.99h,87.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4g0NMn6BWrZ7XSZHIiHabQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 - the number of of times people seem to ignore the yellow hatching and the trams end up having to wait, even when they've been green lighted.
Thanks for posting, brought back a lot of memories.
That’s my grandad moving those cars!
Saw the line in use in the early 1980s, and what a good 10 minute view this is with all the shoving vehicles out of the way, guard with a flag and the rest…