hello it's Thursday the 18th of May and
it's day number 12 and we were here just
yesterday uh but it we could prove it's
a different day because a white van has
has now parked stealing the shop that we
wanted to do to replicate yesterday's
shot back at Bromley South woohoo to the
Kent to the Kent again
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is this us
oh the Kent train where are we going
now you want to know how R she I do know
it but just reminds meind me what the
plan is the first stop is to go to
Sheen okay which is the little branch on
a sitting B yep which also features
Swale which is the least used K station
we're doing that Branch okay
first tickets
please not expecting
anyone to get on or
off we will short arriving at
s there is no one
here the next station is
queenb do you remember Seaford in out
again yeah GS
in out
again same train 2 minutes it's what
looks like a like a mini Statue of
Liberty there is a mini Statue of
Liberty here at sh s on SE I wonder why
that
is but before the day is out we will go
on a
javelin that is the correct noise
you better you've you've raised my hopes
now Jeff I better we better get
one we got 20 minutes and do okay ready
let's go go
wow what it's a castle dude
that's a pretty impressive Castle is it
me or is this turning into a tour of
castles in Brit I feel a little bit like
that I didn't welcome to all the
[Laughter]
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castles just come down the High Street
and we' discovered there is a Historic
Trail of DOA which you can do this is
one of the stops which is St Mary's
Church it's been here for more than 400
years interestingly the plaque is in
both English and French
hey Vic it's a Jain it's a Javin hold on
we got we got our
first round like say special welcome to
Jeff who are traving around all the
national Ro stations in the country them
today and for the rest of their
Journey customized work
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see you later thank thank you you're
awesome everybody everybody wpe to
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Mark we made it to sandwich station yes
we did There's a Place in Kink called
ham so there's a there's a junction
somewhere where there's a sign saying
ham sandwich basically if that was your
job at the Department of Transport to do
that sign well done the rumor has it
though is that there's a retail outlet
here which is in Prime position to be a
sandwich shop but there isn't surely
there should be a sandwich shop should
at Sandwich
station we couldn't come to sandwich
station and not eatting sandwich what'd
you get delicious tuna and cucumber yeah
this is mine where's yours I want a bite
of your sandwich you should have got
your own I thought we were sharing just
give me a bite we have to bite at the
same
time it's it's that predictable folks a
sandwich at Sandwich
station I feel like some sort of paradox
is going to open
up a sandwich at sandwich I'm really
hungry oh they eat the sandwich
service it's a great
train no it's not it's a TR
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train bman British pman it look like
people are having dinner there's no
Victoria Carriage there if you ever go
to platform one at Victoria yeah yeah
yeah there's a little office down the
next to the Starbucks or something
there's an office there and you can pay
a lot of money like hundreds of pounds
to go on an Excursion and it's like it's
Orient Express style excursions all over
the place they have a brochure mainly
during the summer I was going to buy you
one once as a birthday gift and then can
I switch my Stone Henge forant train so
you ra what rather than a free trip to
Stone Heng I didn't say that take that
back we're at folon folkstone folon
folon folon
it's very Misty it is a very Misty gray
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day you can tell we're back by the
seaside when when the seagulls come out
again we're back to seagulls did you see
the the the ticket Hall the roof of the
ticket Hall seriously impressive
TI well done Ramsgate it's amazing bu I
wasn't expecting that at all really
amazing really good the outside's not so
bad
either yeah loving
Ramsgate Margate station is equally as
impressive as uh Ramsgate we have 15
minutes to our train Vick is doing a
Facebook
live can't come to Margate without
getting a short of Dreamland and the
beach
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see
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I'm in a Country Lane near Canterbury
there a very nice man that I met about
10 minutes ago called Dave that's
holding my camera under an umbrella and
we've come to here I have to show you
this I I admit I've seen this Elsewhere
on the internet on YouTube but when we
knew that we were coming to Canterbury
we had to come here this is a fairly
unique level crossing there's only a
small number of these in the whole of
Great Britain come on have a look
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there's a panel here red means you can't
operate this Crossing green means you
can operate this this Crossing and the
instructions say check that there's a
green light fully raise both barriers
check that the green light still shows
and cross quickly hang on what you have
to operate the crossing yourself you do
here with this lab here it quite clearly
says pump to raise both barriers which
is exactly what I'm going to do now
so I'm having to raise the level
crossing
myself we've checked and there's not a
trained you for about 6
minutes okay there's still a green light
are you good you coming with me Dave I
will come with you sir there's no trains
coming I should point out that this
isn't like a local line highspeed
Javelin trains come down this
line oh there we go that handle there
there we go that's a magic handle that's
a magic
handle and that lowers the barriers now
I'm told there's like a Pneumatic
pressure in there so if you're lazy and
you don't lower it after a while they do
low themselves and I'm really hoping
that the lights are obviously linked to
the signaling Center and they give you
enough time cuz that took me a good
minute didn't it to pump pump lot of
effort went into that Crossing one of
the few Crossings in in England where
you have to manually raise it yourself I
think that's quite cool
right I can think you now I'd rather be
on a glorious spring day in Kent than
stand in the pouring
rain at a level crossing that I go
across at work hundreds and hundreds of
times a year but never thought to come
and actually have a look at it there you
go it's the wonders of this marvelous
Endeavor you're undertaking in the
meanwhile Vicki has been to K
Cathedral it's really raining
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so do we know how old this Cathedral
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is I don't know you could tell me
anything right now quick we should
1948 194
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wow so we've come into the Marlo theat
which very cool have an amazing view of
the cathedral and the west west gate
Towers it's still
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raining so Charlotte says andon says the
double duer buses used to go through
that Archway yes they did and it's
really scary it really doesn't look like
like you can fit a double decker bus in
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there we made it to Canterbury West not
East VI is not here yet um so the very
nice very nice gentleman called Dave
drove me down held the camera there uh
but I'm going to have to admit that Dave
you actually work for the railway I do
I'm a conductor on these here very
trains I mean would you consider
yourself like a train nerd enthusiast or
do you just love the railways and if so
why do you love Britain's Railways I
just like traveling around the trains
like the railways I find them quite
reassuring that there's a a train
service been going for 150
years so to wrap up without mentioning
the weather just some you're daying
three words
viy Kent all the Kent all the kid this
is our Javelin home for tonight thank
you cury good night
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St I'm
hungry do you want to do the obvious gag
oh this seat's wet I know my Bottom's
wet oh you can't see this but the
moisture on the seat is totally just
soaked through my trousers oh that's
going to be uncomfortable for the next
hour oh