Goole Railway Station and Town Centre circa 1960

This film begins at Goole railway station with the Hull section of the Yorkshire Pullman bound for London, a goods train going in the Hull direction, a diesel multiple unit and two of the station staff. An emailer informs us that the one who pretends to yawn - showing off as he often did - is Donny Smith who lived in Mount Pleasant Road (if anyone knows the other's name please let us know). The Kingsway footbridge over the railway, in the distance at the beginning, must have been fairly new. In the other direction, Goole's "salt and pepper pot" water towers are prominent on the left behind the goods train. The station overbridge and semaphore signal gantries no longer exist, and the station was rebuilt several years ago (some say it now looks more like a bus shelter). The lovely white wooden railway gates have long since been replaced by drop-down barriers but the signal box and the "monkey bridge", in the distance beyond, are still there. The film then shows scenes of people and vehicles near the railway gates in Boothferry Road. We then move along Boothferry Road to the Clock Tower and the market with what looks like Anthony White's ice cream van. The Clock Tower has since been moved several yards away from the Midland Bank building behind it (which is now a pub) to form the centre of a roundabout, and there are no longer public lavatories beneath it. Beyond the market stalls is the old Carlisle Street Methodist Church where the library now stands (which was built for Easthams as a new furniture shop before the library took it over when it moved from further along Carlisle Street). Finally there is a brief shot of Foster and Tetley's old shop in Church Street, now the site of a small car park opposite the council offices. Digitised cine film (standard 8 no sound) by Fred Collinson in Goole, Yorkshire, around 1960.

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[Bevoin1970]

Having just been given some cine film myself and recently uploading to You Tube Im getting into this cine film stuff. It's brilliant and captures a long lost past. Some might say progress is good but not always in my opinion. Great footage !!!

[FBCCine]

Thanks. Although yours is Wallsall, and this channel is really about Goole, yours captures 1967 for ordinary people perfectly, so I've added it to my favourites.

[applemaca06]

Great stuff! Been searching for film or photographs of Newquay railway station...anyone able to point me in the right direction please!

[FBCCine]

Get a copy of the Railway Magazine (or similar) and look at the adverts for railway books and videos - ask the booksellers direct if necessary.

[Intercity47GBRail]

I live near Goole and I have always loved the station, it seems to have a nice feel to it even though it is overrun with scum nowadays, seeing what it was like in the past is great I wish it was still as good today...

[Isochest]

We are still in that era. Our Goonvernment is still systematically buggering our manufacturing infrastructure, transport infrastructure etc. They bail out duff banks but let whole manufacturing industries disappear. we have a bunch of underwhelming nonces listening to a bunch of sharks who are busy filling their boots as long as they can get away with it. Yes, the punk song is right: Gordon is a Moron!! We'll be another Moldova 'ere long!! Best of Luck: We'll need it!!

[Panarail]

What a delightful clip. I wish there was more of this type of footage out there. Thanks for posting.

[northerner2]

...and I got off at Drax....

Two pieces of the line remain...one comes off the ECML at Brayton, and is used, I believe, for tamper storage, extending perhaps 1000 yds up on to the embankment.. The second is a very short stretch of the old trackbed used by the MGR trains at Drax PS.

Great film...

[cutterschoicenotmine]

great film. thanks!

[pitmastonduke]

I went to school in Goole around this time. A significant number of pupils came on the old push-me-pull you train from Selby. The line no longer exists of course

[tachebear]

Hell's teeth....seeing this takes me back!!

Used to hang around the station as a nipper (aged 6/7 then,born 87 Hook Rd)fascinated by the gates and the steam hauld trains.Can still remember the distictive smell the place had now, though understand the footbridge etc.have all gone.Happy days.....M.Crawley

[Rjnicko]

Goole station has changed a lot since then