Drivers Eye View (Route learning aid) : Clapham Junction to Purley via Down Slow Line 

Great stuff, still gets my head in a dither with the spaghetti complexity of SE London Lines etc, all the best, Retired Signalman.

Gets me out of Ohio for a little while. Thank you, Jesus!

Memories...I wonder if anyone else shares them. I grew up in Thornton Heath in the 1950s and until around 1960 it was my local station to travel to my Gran's house in East Croydon. Look at the stretch between the two bridges on the London side of TH. Does anyone remember the two headshunts for the west (fast side) and east yards? You can clearly still see where they were. And the incredible trailing ladder crossover between the two, battered noisily and constantly by PULs, PANs and BELs on the fast lines? What about the retaining wall to the train's left as it approaches the second bridge, now mainly topped with a wire fence but, at the abutment, not so. I used to sit up there and watch those leviathans thunder across the ladder and it looks as though I still could perch there today. And follow that wall around to the left after the bridge. That was the boundary of the east yard, a huge (to my young eyes) complex of sidings devoted, I believe, entirely to coal, where on at least one occasion my Dad took me to see if he could beg or scrounge a bag of nutty slack or dust to feed our depleted stock...

Thank you for another great video, they really are very good for route learning

Moght have been at work that day, Three bridges asc, looked like you had a good run after being held at T135 @ South croydon, we usually hold the frieghts there waiting for a shunter at purley or crawley new yard, great video, ill get a freight drivers job one day 🙏👍🏼

Clapham Junction to Purley isn’t really a long journey. But still very interesting journey.

Thank you for these great videos! They are concise, informative and at the same time beautiful. Best route learning videos I have seen.

Great 👍 VIDEO 👍

Thanks for sharing.Thanks from an Australian rail fan.

An interesting video. Remember being in the London area, and seeing some of the locations! Like a trip back in time! Cheers mates! 😊

Excellent graphics and information.

i used to live in Brixton many years ago. i had grandparents living in clapham common...

As a Sarf Londoner I love South London’s railways best. What i enjoy about your drivers eye videos is where you point out and explain the signals,

Thank you again!

Part of the route rendered in wire frame in the Southern Belle computer game in the 80s - nice to see what it *really* looks like!

Interessante en informatieve video

11:06 why is there a shunt signal?

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Where do you get a map of all the train names (Down Brighton Slow etc) from?

can anyone please tell me what the 40|60 speed limit sign means

Just noticed they have demolished Balham Signal Box, is that correct?

Wasn't this area the busiest in the world at some point?