hello it is Tuesday the 23rd of may we
are at burbeck but not to catch the tram
but to catch the southern service into
London Bridge in search of London's
first Railway
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we are now apprach
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it's Landon in it look at the
sh feel like I've come home you can see
The Shard any day you want I know but we
haven't seen it for like a few weeks I
haven't been into town for
ages we will show
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at got to train into London
Bridge walked over London Bridge to
Canada Street deliberately to get a
train to do one of London's slight
slightly awward stations uh because so
many trains pass through here without
stopping and you have to be on the right
stop it this is St John's in lean and I
think only two trains an hour stop here
this is St John's I just wanted to come
and see the platforms of St John's which
I've never done
I didn't want to put it on video and
Vicki's made the very good point that we
should put this on video cuz we we got
the wrong
train or rather we're on the right we we
stayed on a train which you shouldn't
have done and after St John's at leam we
should have changed and at out of Cannon
Street going down to there's these three
lines they all s of top middle and and
think of it was like three rungs on a
ladder and we came along the bottom on
the day to the green we meant to go down
the middle one then leap around and come
back from the top one but we stayed on
this train and it wasn't until I was
like oh Zid C we've been here before it
goes to show in big cities like London
how easy it is to pick up other
connections and get yourself back on
track plan
intended Abby Wood
Station which they're doing some
rebuilding building Works CU cross rail
also you have an amazing fact about
abbywood don't you oh on the list of uh
all the stations is the first
alphabetically is that
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correct so just having a brief wage
Arenal
interlude so now we got to go down to
Black Kei then double back okay and then
come back again
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and rivers to barst we will get
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there it's the A2 um which is just
outside of Elam station we've got out
here so that we can catch a bus because
when we changed trains earlier uh we
missed out unfortunately W dockyard so
we need to go back and catch that we're
not worried we're just going to catch
the 161
we're back at w
arsenal we were only here like an hour
ago this time let's get a train that
actually stopped at w
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Stockyard will
dockyard hey hey hey that's that's
that's doing to me that is it's quaint
it's very quaint it's not that quaint
cuz we're about to discover what I
actually like about this section of the
Railway this is some of the earliest
Railways in London um and we're just
about to do the grenage to London raway
which is all build up on like a vag
build up on archers but along here it's
all through cuttings there's like deep
cuttings it's almost like being on a cut
and cover tube line the circle line
where you feel like you're 20 ft below
the ground but it's just in a in a
cutting with steep brick walls I like
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it grenage famous for many things it's
very historical location home of grenage
meantime obviously but probably most
famously known for this behind me the
ktis Sak it was the fastest tea Clipper
in the world built in 1869 and has been
here in grenage for many years although
recently restored in 2007 if you're in
grenage don't forget to also check out
the grenage foot tunnel and the
wonderful greenage
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Market very cool
postcards see if I can find a grenage or
London based one to send to
a reward
by the way the IIs hotel and Cafe Rouge
used to be a train station called
grenage Park which opened in the 1880s
also called Greenwich in competition
with another train station just around
the corner called Greenwich that must
have been very confusing but it closed
in 1917
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so yeah we've been spending today on
southeastern in southeast London and
we've come from grenwich and we've
walked we've come on foot and we're
heading from London Bridge back to The
Shard down there to look at this this is
an elevated section and all these arches
this is the first steam Railway and the
first passenger Railway in London it's
the London to grenwich railway 4 miles
built all elevated like this with
archers all along the way it was opened
in 1836 now to start with London Bridge
was actually called Tuli street but
before that there was another Terminus
called Spar Road just down here we're
going to look at in a second as as if
we've timed it perfectly a train on this
side rumbles across so initially only
opened up from uh depford where we just
got up to spar Road uh and there's
almost nothing left of Spar Road station
today except for one little thing which
is just down here
there's a picture South Eastern and
chattam Railway the
two hugely rival companies were forced
to merge and operate together they hated
that there's a PL
too look the history's done for me
opened in 1836 by the London and
grenwich Railway L suceeded by Lon
Bridge Spar Road also Strangely I think
became it might just be Britain's first
request stop it had a potted history
opened it closed it opened it closed
Sundays they they skipped and then the
local Council said no no we want trains
to stop and I think upon request you
could then get trains to stop at spy
Road somebody died because the platforms
were so narrow sometimes passengers
would wait on the tracks actually stand
on the tracks and when the train
approached everybody would then get out
the way and obviously it didn't take too
long for somebody one week to not get
out the way in the train just squished
them uh and eventually it closed London
Bridge took over but
this these are other drab arches are
with London's first Railway
terminal it's 245 water Lou East we're
getting our last train of the day to
Hayes we're going to go down the haze
branch and we're end at Hayes yeah how's
your day been good I discovered a
railway London that I didn't know
existed you're welcome see you in the
next episode we leave you with the
closing job py
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station it's the same train
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renage famous for many things including
uh the Cy
sck let we do it again cuz I was afraid
they're getting one over