Brian Hawkins Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Looe, simply because of wonderful childhood memories of family holidays together from around 1967. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Mallaig, I spent many Saturdays there in the late seventies because I was working on SRPS raitours 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, great northern said: Your favourite Eastern Region BLT turned out to be Stamford East by a large margin, 9 votes to no more than 2 for anything else. Let's finish off the terminus polls by looking for our nationwide favourites. So today, back to the seaside. Which is/was your favourite in the whole of the UK, and why? St Ives. Not so much for the terminus but the line as whole. Even today a spectacular scene around Carbis Bay. Folks from grimey industrial towns on, perhaps their first holiday after the war (or ever?) must have thought they’d died and come to heaven. Edited July 23, 2020 by TrevorP1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Got to be Skeggy as I went there so often. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 There are so many seaside termini to chose from, with so many individual delightful idiosyncrasies. This makes the choice so difficult. I think for the excellence of the station itself, rather than its surroundings or the stock using it, it would have to be Wemyss Bay. Such a beautiful building. Lloyd 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CHAZ D Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2020 Torn between 3 Ilfracombe. My father moved to Combe Martin and I explored the remains of the line (wonderful views). Penzance 60's early 70's never remember steam but the view from marizion beach as the early warships (D600-D60?) roared out of Penzance and past the crossing onto the beach was inspiring to a youngster. LLandudno. Part of the station had a very large model railway. My parents and sister would go to the beach and I woud spend a couple of hours watching the trains going around and over the hump shunting yard in the middle. If pushed I would have to choose Penzance. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 Favourite seaside terminus has to be Swanage - early childhood family holiday memories and more recent holidays since the preservation works have got it going again. Other contenders would be Whitby, Scarborough, Minehead, Kingswear, St.Ives and Penzance. Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 G'Day Folks For this one, I'll go for Scarborough, seeing that I didn't go for it last time. ( Is Liverpool, classed as a Seaside town ) manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Wells next the Sea, would love to have the space to model it properly including the line down to the harbour. Been fascinated by it since I realised that to shunt the goods shed wagons had to go through the engine shed which was directly in front of it. Unusual track plan because of the two different lines that came into the station from different sides. I believe at one point a loco would set back and the the carriages would roll into the station under gravity because of a lack of conventional run round. Interesting locos such as E4s, D16s and J15 and it just survived into the diesel era. The station building still exists. Outside East Anglia, Weymouth in steam days with its vast site, when passenger trains to the harbour were still steam worked along the road and quayside and the branch to Portland was still open. Martyn 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 Seaside location, Dovercourt, Walton -on - Sea, Clacton -on- Sea, Brightlingsea, Tollesbury Peir, Maldon East, Southminster (well it is the nearest station to the end of the world, Bradwell-on-Sea) or Southend Victoria? Then of course you have the Midland Railway terminus of Shoeburyness. This is so so difficult. What the hell just go for it Clive........Bognor Regis. 1 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 It has to be Blackpool for me. Something for all tastes there. And the trams. The long lamented Central station, also the proper part of North, with the (still used today) excursion platforms. Also thepoor little South station, nowadays a pathetic terminus, which used to be a quite large junction station. And I nearly forgot - all the wonderful times I've had in and around the town. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 This was a hard one. There isn’t anywhere that really stands out for me but I’ll go for Cromer High. It looks like it could make an interesting model and the motive power would be quite appealing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 Does Hull Paragon count as sea side? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, 31A said: Does Hull Paragon count as sea side? Hi Steve No cos it is Kingston upon Hull. From Wikipeda "Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea," But who can believe Wikipeda. Anyhow Gilbert is the judge 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 South Shields of course - but there may be bias. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 35 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Steve No cos it is Kingston upon Hull. From Wikipeda "Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea," But who can believe Wikipeda. Anyhow Gilbert is the judge Oh I didn't realise it was as much as 25 miles from the sea, I thought it was a bit like Sarfend! In that case I won't vote for Hull. How about Cromer High. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Holyhead we had a tin tent holiday in prestatyn. It wss the touring part of the Haven site right next to the north Wales line. Went to jolyhead on a 185xxx iirc then back via Llandudno junction pn a dragged Pendolino Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2020 Mine is Scarborough. Just such a good place, and the station, at it’s zenith, had just about everything including trains having to reverse in and out of platform 1a for the Whitby line, which then went through Falsgrave tunnel. The longest station seat, certainly in England. Regards, Rob. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 35 minutes ago, 31A said: Oh I didn't realise it was as much as 25 miles from the sea, I thought it was a bit like Sarfend! In that case I won't vote for Hull. How about Cromer High. Hi Steve Now Southend is a bit of a odd place as its real name is Southend-on-Sea but it ain't it is in the Thames Estuary.Plus it doesn't really have a beach, it is on mud flats. When I were lad me Mum and Dad would take me and my brother on a day trip to Southend by train from Bedford it was great fun trying to work out which route we would take as sometimes we ended up at Victoria and sometimes Central. Back in them days the local coppers wore white helmets in the summer, very strange. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted July 23, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 14 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Steve Now Southend is a bit of a odd place as its real name is Southend-on-Sea but it ain't it is in the Thames Estuary.Plus it doesn't really have a beach, it is on mud flats. When I were lad me Mum and Dad would take me and my brother on a day trip to Southend by train from Bedford it was great fun trying to work out which route we would take as sometimes we ended up at Victoria and sometimes Central. Back in them days the local coppers wore white helmets in the summer, very strange. Southend-on-Mud doesn't really sound very attractive though, does it? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted July 23, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2020 Right, what could be better than a parcel containing a Timmed A3. The answer is...... two of them. Another one found on E Bay has also had the treatment. This one is a Grantham engine, and its last shopping was a year ago, so its condition is subtly different, but equally attractive. Another lovely addition to the fleet. I'm sure I have enough A3s now. They are beautiful locomotives though, aren't they? I suppose I could have one more, or perhaps two. 24 2 1 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Scarborough again for me, too. If we can't vote again for the same place, Hunstanton. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon4470 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 So many seaside stations to chose from. For me though it is Brighton. Not only was this the closest sea to me when I was growing up, it was also the site of the best school field trip ever. The subject was Economics and we were 18(ish). We set off from East Croydon and when we arrived at Brighton station (mid morning) the teachers said: “meet back here at 4pm, we are going that way, and will be in these pubs. Only two rules - don’t get into trouble and we don’t want to see you again until 4!” Needless to say we went in the opposite direction to them and stayed in different pubs! Jon 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, great northern said: Southend-on-Mud doesn't really sound very attractive though, does it? Don't know, some people like being covered in mud. Edited July 23, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 Proof of Essex people enjoying themselves. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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