The history of the tiny, quirky community and military railway that grew on one of the most bizarre and forlorn parts of the British coast, Spurn point, a spit of sand and boulder clay always in danger of being reclaimed by the sea.
NOTE: I have to make a correction; at the time of making this video I didn't realise that the original railway jetty was gone by the 1980s, and the present jetty, whilst a similar shape and not very far from the site of the original, was in fact built in the 1970s. This is NOT the jetty the railway ran along! Many apologies for the mistake.
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