A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (WHITBY - SCARBOROUGH) (1966)

http://www.yfaonline.com/assetDetails.cfm?film=3645

This film was made by railway enthusiast and filmmaker Frank Dean. Frank trained as an engineer during the Second World War, using his welding skills doing work for the War. But coming from a railway family -- his foster father worked on the railway and uncles were plate layers -- Frank got a job on the railway as soon as he could, in 1949. Church Fenton at that time was a major interchange of branch lines, and British Railways -- as it became with nationalisation in 1948 -- employed many in the village. He started out as an Assistant Lineman before eventually being head hunted by the Signal Engineering Department in the North East.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• 1966
• Yorkshire
• film
• archive
• North
• Whitby
• Scarborough
• railway

[nymr1]

This video is a sad ending to this railway!

[nymr1]

A railway in my favourite part of the Country (North Yorkshire)

[jaffas8]

Beeching and Marples had a lot to answer for.

[claretsarecool]

Thank you Mr Marples another line lost forever that may well have succeeded today PROGRESS ! Great video i

[Strawberry7Lynn]

Very interesting clip. I've just recently read a 'then and now' picture book on this line, so it was a delight finding this

[ying2ong]

What an excellent film and good quality considering it's 8mm(?) origin. My 8mm films were never that good! Terrible shame that this line was closed, but by all accounts there were very few users so closure was probably inevitable. You can't run a railway without users, but it's still a shame. I always walk along part of it whenever I can get to that part of the country and it would have been a good ride through great scenery. Thanks for putting it on.

[paulsre]

Astonishing film. The closure of the line was an absolute disgrace. The bus journey between Scarborough and Whitby is a horrible experience.