Great video! As someone who lives at SMY and worked at the Asda in Swanley until recently and now for the railways I love some railway knowledge like this!
I remember going to the (now demolished) Station Master’s house circa 1970. The Station Master’s wife used to look after us kids after school. Nice lady.
I was told that the station is again on the move, coming down closer to the town centre. Not sure how they'd incorporate the Sevenoaks branch, but apparently Swanley has a lot of development planned for the next five years.
I have always wondered why there was never a station at Swanley Village. The line passes very close by it and many much smaller communities had stations at one time.
I live in Horton Kirby and used to catch the train from Farningham Road through Swanley to Victoria and back every day. I knew about Swanley Junction station, and Station Road with its choice of take-aways. But I've never gone looking for the remains of the station. Very interesting, thank you. Someone else mentioned the coal obelisk just outside Swanley station - that would be interesting to know a bit more about. Also, just past Farningham Road Station was a halt on the down line only, for the Farningham home for boys.
I discovered your channel some weeks ago,and I gotta say,I was shocked by the quality and the subscriber count,you have one of the best intros I've ever seen!
Stumbled onto your vids while down a youtube rabbit hole - and i'm glad i did! Subscribed :) . Oh - BTW - nice T Shirt chap! #GO! #PSB #InformEducateAndEntertain :)
@@HeyItsAJOmega I was lucky enough to see them live at the Albert Hall last July (2019) during the Proms - when they played the whole of the 'Race For Space'. Bloody amazing! Keep doing what you're doing mate - looking forward to new content soon! #PositiveThoughts :)
I'm a former southeastern driver I was told about the former Swanley Junction when route learning. Thought you might have mentioned in passing the impressive coal marker obelisk just to the west of the station. Maybe that's a bit off topic though...
had the same thing happen to me thrice: my local line had a few local stations closed that you’d never realize were there unless you looked, two survived partly intact and a third only in memory of a few…all only discovered because of reading about other stations nearby!
seriously impressed by your videos e.g your visit to east lancs @bury.. I 'd be happy ,should you be inclined do a take on the keighley and worth valley
You perhaps omitted to say that Swanley was rebuilt in 1959 to accommodate 2 extra tracks. Another local station you may wish to visit is Lullingstone, just south of Eynsford Tunnel. Now that is hard to find!
No sooner do you complete the quest of Swanley Junction station than you throw up another - the vanished Rochester Bridge station (which I didn't know about till now) is on MY doorstep in Strood! And there's another really nice railway-themed micropub here - the 1050 from Victoria!
As a young young lad my father used to take me and my brother down to the top of Cuxton down and we would watch them working on the old railway bridge making it into the road bridge of today. In these later years, they are kicking themselves about losing the second railbridge as with it still in use today, the plan was a second less harsh chord coming up to it from the Strood-Cuxton line so now they are thinking of running a line around the Higham hill and across the Medway there or coming in a straight line from Higham tunnel portal across the medway to pick up to Rochester, some have even suggested using the old naval line for the high speed bypassing.
People say that Swanley is in Kent whilst others say that it’s in Greater London. Is Swanley technically in Kent. And also is close to the M25 London Orbital Motorway, A20 and M20. Anyways interesting video AJ. Andrew G.
AJCantFail I totally agree. I always thought that Swanley is in Kent which it is. It’s only few miles from the London boundary and isn’t that far from Dartford, Bromley, Croydon, Caterham and other places on the London boundary with Kent and Surrey.
Swanley is in Kent, however it's also within the M25 which may give rise to some confusion. Ticket wise it's a bit of an anomaly along with Dartford in that both outside zone 6 of the travel card area yet (London) pensioners freedom passes are valid to both for some strange reason.
@@markselby7677 the TfL Zones have been moved around a lot over the years. Darford (being an "outer London" commuter belt), wanted access to cheaper fares, and I beleive a number of people campaigned over the years to be part of the TC Zones... eventually their wish was granted.
@@HeyItsAJOmega hi when i worked a eynsford station in the 1970s there was still paper working relating to lullingstone station ie inventory of things like fire extinguishers and some other paper work the station was just outside eynsford tunnel on the eynsford side if i can be of more assitance dont hesitate to ask
@@HeyItsAJOmega I'm not certain that Lullingstone was ever actually opened. I believe it was built as a 'speculation' station, much like most of Metroland, for a development that was put paid to by WW2, again much like the Metropolitan extension north of Edgware(?). All down to the Green Belt act. I have watched a cab ride of the Sevenoaks line and the remains are easily seen from there but have never found them at ground level, not that I've looked that close in the first place..... Only found your Videos today, good work, don't stop. Thanks.
Thank you! It's my regular G7X Mk2 camera, plus some colour grading edits in DaVinci Resolve which I was trying out for this video. I mostly use Adobe Premiere Pro though. Just tweak some of the colour grading (shadows, midtones, highlights etc) to give it more of an old 80s Super 8 footage look. :)
One minute you're in suburbia next you're out in the green belt. Luckily around Swanley to Otford fears of being swamped by executive overpriced shoe boxes has gone unfounded.
I've spent some time searching for the lost railways around my neck of the woods - northeast Suffolk - and road names are a big clue where stations and the now not-so-permanent-way used to be. There's Station Road of course, but then there's also "Beeching Av.", "Beeching Dr.", "Beeching the moron", etc, etc Example - here's north Lowestoft, the old railway route is centre left from the bottom, Station Road is centre right, and Beeching Drive is just above that :) www.google.com/maps/place/Lowestoft/@52.4900631,1.7511491,337m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47da032d0bb1a84d:0xa65c41c1d8577798!8m2!3d52.481138!4d1.753449
The background music during the whiteboard segment is too loud, really. I can barely follow the explanation there. Could you turn it down in future videos? Otherwise: nice video.
