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Hi, I would like to see your video of the dyke railway, as a child it was my playground, we walked out of our back garden in Rowan Avenue, onto the track which was a cutting at that point, walked down to the farm by the trees in knoll park before the park was there, the line came up the back of the houses in lower Elm Drive & Acacia, crossed the road by Harringtons Coach works, where our father worked for 24 years. Out of our back garden and walking north we crossed Hangleton road, the waste ground where they had occasional fairs, car sales lots, Billy Grahams tent when he came to convert us, across West Way & climbed up the chalk mountain onto the track and from there stayed on the track right up to Dyke station which we walked often, it was a shame when the council started filling up the cutting behind our house with rubbish, digging out the mountain & ruining our playground, later on I worked for Hall & Co and we carried chalk from the track up behind the Downsman Pub when the council was using that bit as a dump as well. When I looked at this I hoped you had old film actually from the trains, but I’ve probably seen more of the track than most still alive.