#9 - Pier
Hythe Pier and Train
So - Hythe Pier is in Southampton water, and a half-hourly ferry runs to-and-fro Southampton.
The pier is 640m long, and the narrow gauge (2ft) electric train dates from 1909, powered by a 240v electric third rail.
My intention, before seagull intervention (see above), was to use a Litchi “zip wire” and track the train the full length. The vid below was a third attempt flying totally manually … until I chickened (seagulled?) out.
I did hope that starting at the far end, the seagulls mainly loitering around the town end, I’d have better luck. But nope.
So perhaps they’d not follow me to 150m?
There was a brief pause in their endeavours to send me packing (another brief vid will be posted later) but I did get a “plan view” shot.
