it's day
11 at romley South oh yes into Kent to
Kent on southeastern trains welcome to
all the stations
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we will shortly be arriving at
swamp this is swanley Jeff did you know
that swanley uh station used to be about
400 m east of where it is now and it was
originally called 7 Oaks Junction little
Factory there I did I did because you
told me about 5 minutes ago on the way
here
one the next station is farming Train's
been quite full since it came down at
Bromley I was wonder where everybody was
going to get off the answer is Maidstone
I don't think I've ever been to midstone
before Maidstone used to have four
stations
uh now it has three this one mstone East
was the original Maidstone station by
the London chatt andova
Railway also the southeast it's running
early arrived on time well not South
Eastern at Ashford International 9:27
got to get the 932 out from platform too
might just be this train here oh it is
to let's not let's not do a westrey
Ashford International by the way just
known as
Ashford until of course Eurostar and
highp speeded Services came through and
it got renamed International a quiz
question folks what station in London
has got the word International in the
title but no International train stop
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there go job for is
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D not leaving without me more
importantly is there a toilet on this
train
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yeah
yeah did you just film yourself going to
the toilet yeah that's pretty gross
we will shortly be arriving at P
wood I expected pad W to be like in the
middle of a little field there so maybe
some cows grazing at the side of the
platform and instead it's quite
industrial there's lots of Maintenance
trains and what could be a potentially
big Depot and it's like we're in the
middle of an IND of the state
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great it's very
noisy we're coming in a one but going
out on zero it's really unusual to have
a a zero a tiny problem at
strud our train up to gr's end was
running sort of 9 10 minutes late and it
stops at high hium H we had to get thatz
was an orph station but we have to now
change at graves end to get onto the
train to go take us to hither green and
I'm hoping it's an adjacent platform
platform zero how many stations have
platform zero King cross YouTube do us
proud and tell us I think it's like
three what other stations have a
platform zero I don't know if we're
going to make it or not we will shortly
be arriving at graves end what you got
at zero no that's our train there it's
adjacent yeah but there's you can't get
to it platform's on the other side oh
really yeah
do you mean whoops we've got two minutes
to make
this the L
bridge and Ching CR I
think we're always going to be
okay because
until that one's cleared the points so
we ran for no reason no I didn't know it
could have been on a separate Branch
line platform zero welcome to
Gravesend hereit the green and we're
looking for the Prime Meridian runs
through the
station uh so it's marked in the roof of
the passenger uh tunnel which is the
main entrance of the station you can see
on the roof it shows you the where the
station straddles the prime
meridian I've been here before and I've
never noticed it
we're at Brumley North and there's just
a little shuttle that goes between
Brumley North and Grave Park um with one
stop in between so we've
arrived and now we're going back
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are you filming me being on the train
yep all right where we going next
Watford we're going to Watford next
Watford
opord and they're going to change it SW
that's it that's bat and ball we're on a
train to the train all the trains all
the stations probably stop filming
now w't we there
Anya is that is that strewed
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always wait for the drivers or
conductors start welcome to Rochester
this is a brand new station it's only
open in December
2015 Vicky and I came here before was it
2010 and the old station was 500 M up
West up that way this one it's all shiny
and
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new few
lifts so the old station apparently was
creaking at the seams a little bit uh
and also couldn't fit in 12 car trains
you get some highs speed javelins
through here now and they couldn't fit
on the platform properly to walk through
so they recited it nice New Station
platforms long enough for 12 car trains
it's pretty nice it's really nice it's
very
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nice as Jeff said we've been to
Rochester before and besides the amazing
Castle which which is interesting not
only because it's a brilliant Castle in
its own right but also because it was
one of I think nine castles built in a
ring around London to protect the Tower
of London and the city of London itself
so Rochester along with Windsor and I
think Gilford and several other castles
were all built within about 20 miles of
each other in this ring so if any of
them came under attack it would be a
days roughly a day March between one
castle and the other time for reinforce
ments but that aside Rochester is also
famous for Mr Charles Dickens and I've
just purchased this little map from the
tourist information so Jeff are you
ready to go on a hunt for historical
places connected with Charles Dickens
there there is a slow thumb up okay
let's do
it oh have you got my camera
this is the East Gate House which
featured in The Mystery of Edwin drud
and also in the pck papers just behind
you Jeff is now a state agents but this
was the house that featured in Great
Expectations Mr pomp ch's
house so this park is called The Vines
and it said that Charles dickin was seen
in this park leaning against a fence
just 2 days before he
died Jeff have you seen the castle
how do you like Rochester I do really
like Rochester but it's really hard to
kind of sum it up because there's just
so much here there's the castle the
cathedral all the Charles Dickens
there's the wonderful independent High
Street there's the
river is there's too
much come to Rochester
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is that breakfast R know it's the first
train of the day it's
morning I'm obviously eating my grant on
the train what is worth pointing out is
that we've started a is it that
bad lick wash we
started yeah I lost my thread now