it's Monday the 22nd of May at some
point in every man's life of Journey to
all the stations you have to do all the
Suburban commuter routes around London
today is that day for doing it over here
actually a train is just about to divide
this half is going to katum we've
already been this half is going to to
the corner but we haven't been which is
where we St out today on all the
stations
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thank
you we are now approaching Colston Town
Colston
Town used to be called smithm until 2011
it was its old original name I remember
when Southern
had their franchise when they had the
When They carried on the franchise the
Department of Transport said yes but you
have to rename smithm station to
something that more reflects the local
area because nobody called the area
smithm anymore so this is this is smithm
no callon
Town
Gap I must have committed on these
trains so many times why I've only just
noticed that they've got like airplane
style reading lights up only just seen
that I've never seen that
before that's
cool this is um Woodman Stern station
which is just still in the London
burough of c and the next station along
this line is chipstead and that is in
Sur so this is the last station on this
line in the London burs by London this
train is the southern service to
tattenham Corner the next station is
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chipstead there a little man in the
ticket office and I picked up a time
table we're at tattenham corner which
ironically is the closest Station to
some Downs to the race course and it's
at Tatam Corner that the queen when she
comes to the races arrives in her royal
train this is pretty cool I've never
been here before the road by tanham
Corner Station is called Emily Davidson
Drive um which is named after the famous
suffragette Emily Davidson who lost her
life here at Epsom race course by
stepping out in front of uh King George
V's horse in protest against uh women
right to
vote
wow quite a few you can see Wembley
Stadium directly 12:00 there are two
like brown Towers yeah then behind that
is the arch
got a small problem at
Leatherhead small
problem
uh so we had a small problem we're on a
southern train you point out it's not a
southern service but as we came into
Leatherhead heading to horm it sat there
for too
long uh and I wonder what was
happening and then announced that there
been a signal failure at Dorking they
were terminating the train so no trains
heading south down Dorking so the train
service is an hour apart so we've had to
cut our losses and not do hch
him which WS we come back we come back
another day that makes it sou like it's
Southern's fault and that Southwest
trains are saving us but it's a signal
failure so these things
happen so we're making a
switch we're got to go up Southwest
train instead we're going to go up to
the park MV Park try and knock out the
Cheston branch and up to wiland and
after that I don't
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know I put my glasses on I reckon that
will
help I always have my glasses on it
always
helps so we're leaving was to park and
we're in a an Uber driven by the lovely
tck who's a bit confused because we were
on a train to wimon and we've got out
requested an Uber to take us to cheson
South it's the quickest way to get there
rather than change mozer Park and he's
confused cuz hey we could have either
stayed on the train to wion or B he
could just drive us to wimon and instead
we're driving to ton South and then
getting the train to wimon so Vicki you
need to explain what the hell's going on
made it to chesington
woohoo it's all right so we just do
chesington we do horam another day it's
a golf course where's the world of
Adventure so the world of Adventure is
there a 5-minute walk along there and
then left down the road probably haven't
got time to make it but trust me it's
there
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got I tell you a story when I was about
8 9 10 11 years old my parents took me
to Cheston world of Adventures cheson
Zoo as it was known then wow showing me
age that's when these trains four five
units had just been introduced and they
were painted blue and gray classic
British round colors uh and we were like
ooh new slidey door train cuz they just
gone from being slammed door to slide go
the driver saw me as an excited 8 n 10y
old boy took me for a cab ride so I have
actually been in a cab over
455 this is chesington North just like
chesington
South but North
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we're at Wimbledon what do we know about
won it has trams and there are now uh
two tram platforms 10 a and 10B it's
also the only Station in London to have
links to the trams to the suburan rail
network and the London Underground Grand
as well I know I don't have to do the
trams but have we got time
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yeah we're just pulling into Mitchum
Eastfield which just want to highlight
because it is it's a relatively new
station the network opened in 2008 in an
area previously poorly served it's quite
cool because one platform is there
staggered you didn't have a level
crossing you see the staggered platform
in the
distance it's a lovely day and we're sat
on
trains this is still one of my favorite
things on the new class 700 temp drains
show you how busy the train is the train
loading and shows you what the toilets
are as
well stretch
themen
Road at Hayden's Road it's so Sunny I'm
thinking it's time for an ice cream
yes right after you've done a Facebook
live
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due to a short platform and Battery Park
customers for this station should join
the front eight coaches welcome to carw
beaches it's not beaches as in Seaside
beaches but beaches as I think as in
Beach Stree the beaches Avenue but
here's something I've never seen this on
any other platform before it's suddenly
making me think come this way it's
suddenly making me think how many other
stations have one of these an
information point you can press for the
next train information the next train at
platform 1 is the 50 20 Southern service
to London
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Victoria do you have a first class
ticket no no but you're safe you're okay
we only have standard class RS but it's
okay because uh some inner London
Suburban services are advertized as
standard class trains only this train is
the southern service to London Victoria
and if that's the case actually the
first class carriages are then
Declassified and you're allowed to sit
first class if you pick up um like a
paper timetable yeah from a station
they'll typically have that little one
in a black box at the top that tells you
if that train has a first class service
it doesn't have a one top of that column
and yet the Rolling Stock they use does
have first class carriages in and
they've been declassify and you should
be able to sit in a first class seat on
the standard class ticket we're at West
Cen and we are talking to can you tell
us a little bit about why you travel on
the trains basically get around cuz she
has a lot of hosital appointments and
stuff like that uh cor un born bread I'm
a chipsy at the moment this station
particularly you get um overground and
Southern Services coming through so do
you find you use both or you particular
I try to use the overr as much as
possible okay yeah from that it's not
via Crystal Palace sometimes I've got
time on a day like this which I did on
the way here Lely and go through the
park yeah exactly so she's had a great
day she loves cing anyway she recognizes
it well all my kids do so I was going to
ask is this little one like tring on the
chains it soon on there arms like that
to get off this is West Cen this is our
last stop for the day we're going to
head
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home you're kidding me I thought you
handed it to me with it on carry on do
it again
are you now recording yes so we're
leaving wer Park