So much has been lost, it's sad

I lived a few miles away. I was fortunate enough to see the camp and the station in its heyday. I saw many steam and later diesel pulled trains arriving and departing. I visited the platforms in the late seventies, shortly the station closed.

0:23 - Eleven what now?  😄   There was no feeling like arriving here on my yearly holiday to Butlins Filey, from Newcastle, in the 70s.

I am from the United States and have enjoyed your other posts. I appreciate that you have added a narrative to these and will continue to follow your future posts. Thank you.

The only butlins camp i never went to

An awesome video I remember the Filey Camp station very well until the closure of the station in 1977 though I was 6 year old at the time my late parents in the late to mid  70s to the mid 80s had two static caravans on the neighbouring site Primrose Valley next door and I remember the sad run down and eventual closure of Butlins in 1983 and the demolition of the Butlins Filey Camp during the mid  80s which was such a tragedy For Billy Butlins memory who's Filey Camp apparently was one of his flagship camps sad times and sad to think that very little if anything at all survives of the former Filey Camp 😮

Lovely

These camps served to provide a cheap all-inclusive holiday by the sea in the years before cheap package holidays to Europe became the norm. The TV comedy series 'Hi-de-Hi" presented  an exaggerated impression of what is was like to stay for a week. I remember going several times as a child, but not liking it much. The east coast weather can be a bit grim, even in summer. Filey railway station suffered a serious railway accident at some point post-war, when a steam-hauled train heading for the camp ran away down the gradient at some speed, crashing through the station and ticket office before coming to rest on the road. Fortunately, the train was empty.

Well done, thank you for posting.

Great video 👍🏻 I had many a Butlins holidays on the train but we went to Butlins Pwllheli on the steam train from Manchester Exchange 😊 Happy days and we had warm sunny weather back in the 60s 🤩

An Excellent Video

Great short film well done👍

As a child I went to Butlins Filey by Train, We walked across the Road. I do not Remember a Road train.

I visited Filey in the summer. It's a rather upmarket seaside town these days, with the site of the former camp now redeveloped into a rather nice housing estate.

The subway has been opened in the past week or two.

Owner of land has demolished platforms too now…

Not exactly true about the site no longer a destination - a large portion of the site was sold to the caravan park next door as that is still open, and actually came back as a park to Butlins sister company Haven - the park being Primrose Valley.

My friend primrose owns primrose Valley

Good video but please stop using ai generated voice. It can’t even say ‘eleven thousand’ properly.

Got to 0:24 and listen

I wanted to know where the short branch to the station left the line to Filey so I could mention it on my video of the nearby level crossing https://youtu.be/XEDiQMnR4q0 as people would be interested.  But there is no information about that and the map is useless.  There is the photo of an old signal box but where was it?