Telephone Technology Traumas
No 3 son, who has worked for the fbbs' telephone and internet supplier in the past and helps out occasionally nowadays, summarises the current situation with the BT Openreach (very sly name) conversion of fbb to digital. It shouldn't be painful BUT ...
... the lad explains things thus!
Phone will be redirected to your mobiles eventually - something in the bureaucrazy short circuited so I'm afraid the landline is in limbo until it isn't! Sorry!
As for the Internet, it will eventually go kaput, I could login today and change something, but that might mean it's super kaput until it isn't.
Great system!
Butlins Filey, What IS...
The railway lines to Scarborough run from Yotk and from Hull via Bridlington, Hunmanby and Filey. Neither route is of outstanding interest, just a couple of pleasant rail routes used by holiday makers and locals. But a look at a map shows something of a surprise ...
Butlins Filey, What Isn't!
... a "dismntd rly" is marked.
There was once a short branch to Filey Holiday Camp. It left the Hull to Scarborough line by way of a triangular junction ...
... leading to a four platform terminus. Local trains called ...
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Don't be silly, fbb, the sun always shone on a Butlins holiday! (?).
O.K. It might have been damp, but there was always indoor fun to be had.
From the station, road trains would convey the customers to reception, then be available for the sometimes lengthy jaunts around the site.
There was a tunnel under the A165, a three lane tunnel no less. Two lanes were for the road train traffic ...
... and one was for pedestrians.
Butlins Filey, What's There Today
Alas, fbb can find no pictures of the tunnel in use, just its sad fate after the site had closed ...
... and the remnants of the entrance on the station side of the road.
The branch opened in 1947 but the increasing use of the private car meant that such lavishness was no longer the way people did holidays, so the line closed in 1977.
What's There Now?
On the back road from the A165 to Hunmanby, you can easily spot the bridge parapet where the line crossed over ...
... and turning through 180 degrees a farm track runs alongside the embankment leading to the terminus, the same embankment on which the steam train above was pictured, and the same bridge where the gricers ascended for their photographs. A drone view captures most of the triangle ...
... looking from the abutment back towards the "main" line. And here is a view from above the abutment looking towards the station site.
When last visited by photographers and bloggers, there were overgrown platforms to be experienced ...
... and the occasional buffer stop.
If there is any evidence of the demolished station buildings ...
... it is long lost in undergrowth. One little bit of history which still exists, however ...
... is the stairway down from the A165 that led to the station.
Butlins Filey closed completely a decade after the railway, so fbb wonders how many travellers on the "main" line today would know of, or even spot, the remains of the holiday camp branch.
In his recent video about the Hull to Scarborough line, Hunmanby station is just a blur ... 
... as the train passed through; and there is no mention of the joyous time when holiday expresses and locals diverted in and out of Filey Holiday Camp Station.
And A Problem
As yet, NOT the internet, but who knows when?
fbb's latest tank wagon arrived on Wednesday; actually two tank wagons and an open truck.
They would appear to be "push along" toys but the do have flanged wheels for OO track. The seller says they were "Hornby", but that name does not appear anywhere on the wagons. All that can be seen is a "Made in England" stamp.
The wagons cost less that £3 each, so a reasonable pocket money buy for fbb.
Does anybody out there know anything?
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In tomorrow's blog, we hear more about Moore and the bus he didn't drive.
Next Variety blog : Sat 25th Oct
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