London, Chatham And Dover Railway

Southern Steam - The Gravesend West Branch in 1952

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Duration: 1:07
Published: 14 Feb 2010
Uploaded: 05 Apr 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

The Gravesend West Line branched off the Swanley to Chatham line at Fawkham Junction and continued for a distance of 5 miles to Gravesend where the London Chatham & Dover Railway had constructed a pier to connect trains with steamers. It was opened in 1886 and closed to passenger services in 1953, remaining open to freight until 1968 before reopening briefly between 1972 and 1976 to serve APCM's coal concentration depot at Southfleet. Part of the railway's former alignment was incorporated into the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 1998. The locomotive depicted is one of the the stalwarts of the line, a former LC&DR R1 Class 0-4-4T. No.31671 was built as LC&DR R Class No.212 in 1891. She was renumbered as 671 by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (which built additional members of the class, designated Class R1, in 1900), becoming No.A671, then No.1671, under the ownership of Southern Railway (who upgraded all of the Rs to Class R1, fitted them with H Class boilers and equipped many for push-pull working). As BR No.31671 she was withdrawn in 1954. Sadly, no locomotives of London Chatham & Dover Railway design survive although some rolling stock has been preserved. History of the line: en.wikipedia.org The LC&DR R and SE&CR R1 Class 0-4-4Ts www.semgonline.com

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30096 South of England Show 10-06-2010.wmv

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Duration: 1:37
Published: 10 Jun 2010
Uploaded: 22 Aug 2010
Author: 60103Henry

30096 Normandy along with 3rd class 1889 built London, Chatham and Dover Railway carriage No. 114 and 1st class1880 built London Brighton and South Coast Railway carriage No. 661 made a visit to The South of England Show from The Bluebell Railway.

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Southern Steam - South Eastern Miscellany

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Duration: 3:11
Published: 18 Feb 2010
Uploaded: 22 Jul 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

A collection of clips depicting South Eastern & Chatham Railway locomotives. Actually a bit of a cheat, this one - as a South Eastern man to the core, I am acutely aware of the relative dearth of film shot in the South East compared to the former London & South Western and London Brighton & South Coast areas. The L1 class was a Southern Railway design but clearly a development of, and strikingly similar in appearance to, the earlier D1 and E1 classes which were Maunsell's rebuilds of the SECR D and E classes. The U Class Moguls were, in the case of the first 20, SR rebuilds of SECR K Class 2-6-4T passenger tank engines, a type which fell out of favour following the Sevenoaks disaster, and the SR built many more N Class Moguls than the SECR did. The appearance of a London Chatham & Dover Railway R1 class can be excused since a batch were built by the SECR after the merger of the LCDR and the South Eastern Railway in 1899. 1. An unidentifiable ex-SECR C Class 0-6-0 at Tonbridge. 2. SECR H 0-4-4T No.31517 near Ashurst. 3. An unidentifiable ex-London Chatham & Dover Railway R1 0-4-4T. 4. SR L1 Class 4-4-0 No.31786 and another of the class on a railtour. 5. An unidentifiable SR L1 Class 4-4-0 at Crowhurst (with the bay for the branch to Bexhill West in the background). thanks to PKG221057 and ipcress1066 for pointing out that it was not Paddock Wood as previously stated. 6. SR L1 Class 4-4-0 No.31782. 7. SECR L Class 4-4-0 No.31776 at Tonbridge. 8. SECR D1 Class 4-4-0 No.31489 ...

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Southern Steam: Steam Days at London Victoria

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Duration: 9:03
Published: 16 Jan 2009
Uploaded: 25 Jul 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

A wonderful collection of short archive clips depicting London's Victoria Station in steam days, in 1938, 1945, 1946 and 1955. 1938: L1 Class 4-4-0 No.1753 1938: 'King Arthur' N15 Class No.781 'Sir Aglovale' departs with ex-SE&CR H Class 0-4-4T No.1546 piloting. 1945: 'Lord Nelson' LN Class No.855 'Sir Robert Blake' departs as 'Schools' V Class 4-4-0 No.938 'St. Olaves' arrives. 1945: 'Lord Nelson' LN Class No.853 'Sir Richard Grenville' 1945: 'Lord Nelson' LN Class No.855 'Sir Robert Blake' again. 1945: 'King Arthur' N15 Class No.772 'Sir Percival' with experimental smoke deflectors and ex-SE&CR C Class 0-6-0 No.1753 piloting. 1945: 'Lord Nelson' LN Class No.850 'Lord Nelson'. 1945: 'Lord Nelson' LN Class No.853 'Sir Richard Grenville' departs with an unidentified ex-London Chatham & Dover Railway T Class 0-6-0T piloting. 1945: 'King Arthur' N15 Class No.795 'Sire Ector de Maris'. 1945: Ex-SE&CR B1 Class 4-4-0, number not recorded. 1946: 'Lord Nelson' LN Class No.864 'Sir Martin Frobisher'. 1955: BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T, number not recorded.

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70000 Britannia powers out of London Victoria Down Dorset Coast Express 19 Jul 2011

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Duration: 2:35
Published: 19 Jul 2011
Uploaded: 29 Jul 2011
Author: bkendlerA4

British Railways 7P6F Britannia Class No: 70000 Britannia produces a wonderful display of smoke and steam as it powers the Down Dorset Coast Express out of London-Victoria on its way to Weymouth. It's 19th July 2011 and today was Britannia's 4th trip in 8 days. This was the 7th time I have filmed a departure from Victoria and it's the best I've seen. No whistle, but a huge column of smoke and then steam from the cylinder cocks see Britannia go in and out of its own fog nicely bordered by a South-Eastern 465 arriving at Victoria. Britannia, once it gets to Weymouth, earns itself a well-earned rest until next week when it will haul the up Dorset Coast Express from Weymouth. Just a note on Victoria Station. Victoria is in fact 2 stations. Southern trains depart out of the older building which opened in 1860. The South-Eastern side (or London, Chatham & Dover Railway as it was then known) opened the station used now by South-Eastern and steam excursions in August 1862. So, next Summer the South-Eastern station is 150 years old and has been nicely refurbished by Network Rail.

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Southern Steam - The Hundred of Hoo Railway

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Duration: 2:30
Published: 15 Jan 2009
Uploaded: 05 Apr 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

The Hundred of Hoo Railway had been opened by the South Eastern in 1882 to capitalise on the anticiated growth of Port Victoria on the Isle of Grain into a major continental port in competition with the rival London Chatham & Dover Railway's operations on the Isle of Sheppey. This never materialised, although the line was to prove worthwhile as local industry, particularly the manufacture of cement and later the oil terminal at Grain, developed. An extension to Allhallows was opened in 1932, the Southern Railway hoping to benefit from the potential of the location as a new seaside resort for Londoners in North Kent. The Allhallows line diverged between Middle Stoke and Grain Crossing Halts and terminated a quarter of a mile from the seashore, almost directly opposite Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex. The new line proved a success until the outbreak of the second world war, and the line was never to recover in the frugal years after peace returned. The Hundred of Hoo Railway became freight only in 1961, at which point the branch was closed. This film depicts the flavour of traffic on the line during the years of decline: service trains of push-pull stock hauled or propelled by vintage H Class 0-4-4Ts and semi-scheduled workmens trains operated by Q1 0-6-0s.

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Southern Steam - Folkestone and Dover in the 1920s

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Duration: 5:57
Published: 29 Mar 2010
Uploaded: 09 Aug 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

Scenes to delight the South Eastern enthusiast, shot at Folkestone and Dover in the late 1920s. 1) 00:00 An ex-South Eastern & Chatham Railway E1 Class 4-4-0 passes Folkestone Junction, the junction in question being that for the steeply graded harbour branch. The E1s were Maunsell's rebuilds of Wainwright's Edwardian E Class. 2) 00:08 A Maunsell 'U' Class 2-6-0 with a motley collection of vans. The first 20 U Class 2-6-0s began their lives as the SECR K ('River') Class of 2-6-4T passenger tank engines but were all rebuilt following the tragic Sevenoaks accident of August 1927, in which a member of the class was implicated and in which 13 people were killed (see en.wikipedia.org The decision was probably rather unfair to the 2-6-4T design as it is almost certain that the major cause of the accident was the poor state of the track, although the K's tendency to 'hunt' (see en.wikipedia.org and good luck to you) at speed was a contributory factor. 3) 00:13 A splendid lineup of Stirling's ex-South Eastern Railway R Class 0-6-0Ts. Many were rebuilt by Wainwright in the 1900s, becoming Class R1, but these are in their original form. Rs and R1s were used on the harbour branch, three of four at a time, to bank trains up the fierce (1-in-30) gradient from the harbour station to the junction until 1959. 4) 00:31 Wainwright's diminutive P Class 0-6-0T tank engines of 1909, No.323 and a sparkling No.27. These engines had been built to operate motor trains on uneconomical branch lines ...

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Southern Steam - SE&CR; H Class 0-4-4T at Maidstone West in 1952

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Duration: 0:09
Published: 14 Feb 2010
Uploaded: 22 May 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

With the continual growth in traffic around the beginning of the 20th century, particularly in the London suburban area, the newly amalgamated South Eastern and London, Chatham & Dover Railways had an urgent need for medium sized passenger tank locomotives. Although the drawing office at Ashford prepared drawings for both large sized and medium sized tank locomotives, Wainwright decided to build only the smaller machines. Between November 1904 and the end of 1915, 66 of these locomotives were constructed at Ashford Works, being designated Class 'H'. Somewhat uniquely, only 64 of the class were initially constructed out of 66 authorised, but on taking over as CME Maunsell discovered that the works had not erected the missing two, presumably keeping the components as spares. Maunsell ordered construction of the remaining two immediately in 1915, a gap of 6 years since the original 64 had been completed. Upon formation of the Southern Railway, the locomotives of the class received the standard Southern passenger locomotive livery of a shade of olive green with lining, and had 1000 added to their numbers. With the spread of suburban electrification during the 1920s and 1930s, many of the usual duties for 'H' class tanks disappeared, but many were assigned to more rural routes on the South Eastern section of the SR and also drafted on to the former Brighton section. During WWII two of the class were drafted to the South Western section and even the LMS borrowed three for use ...

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Southern Steam - Gravesend Central to Allhallows

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Duration: 3:01
Published: 28 Mar 2010
Uploaded: 04 Aug 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

The Hundred of Hoo Railway had been opened by the South Eastern in 1882 to capitalise on the anticiated growth of Port Victoria on the Isle of Grain into a major continental port in competition with the rival London Chatham & Dover Railway's operations on the Isle of Sheppey. This never materialised, although the line was to prove worthwhile as local industry, particularly the manufacture of cement and later the oil terminal at Grain, developed. An extension to Allhallows was opened in 1932, the Southern Railway hoping to benefit from the potential of the location as a new seaside resort for Londoners in North Kent. The Allhallows line diverged between Middle Stoke and Grain Crossing Halts and terminated a quarter of a mile from the seashore, almost directly opposite Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex. The new line proved a success until the outbreak of the second world war, and the line was never to recover in the frugal years after peace returned. The Hundred of Hoo Railway became freight only in 1961, at which point the branch to Allhallows was closed. This film begins at Gravesend Central on the North Kent line where we see a former South Eastern & Chatham Railway C Class 0-6-0 taking on water. We see a typical service comprised of an ex-SECR H Class 0-4-4T on a push pull train, before embarking on an excursion headed by a BRCW Type 3 (later BR Class 33) 'Crompton' diesel. We leave the Chatham main line at Hoo Junction and proceed to Cliffe, a substantial station which opened ...

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Southern Railway F1 Class 4-4-0 No.1060

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Duration: 0:45
Published: 04 Jan 2009
Uploaded: 20 Aug 2010
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

Stirling's "Mails" were graceful 7' bogie 4-4-0 express locomotives built by the South Eastern Railway at Ashford, Kent to compete with the locomotives of their bitter rival, the London Chatham & Dover Railway who were setting the pace on the lucrative Continental and Kent Coast Traffic. In all, some 88 of these 'F Class' locomotives were built and proved a great success. In 1903, with the SER and LC&DR now merged to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Wainwright in charge, the railway set out to rebuild the F Class and thereby prolong their useful life, with 76 being converted to 'F1 Class' between 1903 and 1919. Wainwright did such a good job that some would see service, with extended smokeboxes added by Maunsell between 1914 and 1920, in the into early BR day, the last being withdrawn in 1949. Here we see two views of F1 No.1060, built in 1891 and rebuilt in 1905, on a staged run in the 1930s. This loco was one of nine lent to the London Midland & Scottish Railway during WWII (from 1941 until 1944). After being returned to the Southern she saw a couple more years of service, being withdrawn in 1946.

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34067 Tangmere Cathedrals Explorer (Video 3 of 3) Wandsworth Road 13 May 2011

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Duration: 2:01
Published: 14 May 2011
Uploaded: 20 May 2011
Author: bkendlerA4

My 3rd vid of the Cathedrals Explorer on 13th May 2011 and my 2nd @ Wandsworth Road. Tangmere is seen here departing, on time,eastbound for Canterbury West. Tangmere will take the South London Line to Nunhead, then take the Catford line and re-join the South Eastern main-line, seen on the left, at Shortlands Junction. Wandsworth Road station was opened in 1863 by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway. The trains that call there are operated by Southern.

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Carriage 51 before arrival at the Bluebell

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Duration: 0:25
Published: 03 Nov 2009
Uploaded: 07 Feb 2011
Author: VictorianBluebell

Built in 1889 by the London Chatham and Dover Railway, Carriage No.51 ran until 1925, ending up being used on Hop Pickers special trains. After withdrawal, like many other such carriage bodies, it was sold, without its underframe, for use as a domestic dwelling in Ashington, Sussex. It was offered to the Bluebell Railway when no longer required by its owner, and recovered during August and September 2003 by a team of volunteers. It is now the subject of our restoration bid to The People's Millions, which will, we hope, see it returned to passenger use, including facilities to carry passengers in wheelchairs. Voting takes place on 25th November 2009. Please support us - see tinyurl.com

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Southern Steam - Four Coupled Collection

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Duration: 7:28
Published: 31 May 2010
Uploaded: 06 Jul 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

From the mid 1890s until after the First World War, locomotion featuring the 'American' 4-4-0 wheel arrangement was the standard for almost all British passenger Express trains. In the area covered by the Southern Railway and later the Southern Region of British Railways, the type was most closely associated with the the rival South Eastern (SER)and the London Chatham & Dover (LCDR) Railways, who built numerous examples whilst in vigorous competition for the lucrative Kent Coast 'mail' traffic and, as partners in the South Eastern & Chatham Railway after 1899, some of the most elegant. The London & South Western Railway constructed numerous engines of this wheel arrangement, the most successful being the T9 'Greyhounds', whilst the The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway had a respectable number of which the B4s were considered finest. Almost all of these pre-grouping types followed the inside-cylinder arrangement. The class that was without doubt the most successful deviated from this format - the three-cyliner 'Schools' Class, constructed by the Southern Railway from 1930, is considered to be one of the finest applications of British steam locomotive practice. 1) 00:00 Maunsell 'Schools' Class 4-4-0s, including No.913 'Christ's Hospital' at Redhill in the 1930s. 2) 00:20 Another SR Schools Class at Brighton, 1930s. 3) 00:33 A real veteran, an ex-LSWR Adams X2 Class 4-4-0, 1930s. 4) 00:51 Ex-LSWR Drummond L11 class No.413, 1930s. 5) 00:59 Ex-LSWR Drummond T9 class No ...

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Southern Steam - The Golden Arrow through Tonbridge c1960

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Duration: 0:38
Published: 30 Jan 2011
Uploaded: 23 Aug 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

Tonbridge, still recognisable today. The juice rail is in situ, but there's not an EMU to be seen in this short colour clip filmed at Tonbridge on the South Eastern main line around 1960. There's a hair in the gate, I know, I know... 1) The Golden Arrow in the charge of a rebuilt West Country Class 4-6-2. Which one cannot be discerned by SouthernRailwayFilms, but they are sure that one of the Bulleid cognoscenti will be able to advise. 2) An N Class 2-6-0 arrives tender first with a three coach Maunsell set. 3) An N Class 2-6-0 and a BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T depart with three BR Mk1 coaches in tow. The headcode is for a Redhill/reading service, and the double heading of such a short train suggests that the Standard has failed, or this is a balancing move.

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Bluebell Railway Vintage Transport Weekend

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Duration: 0:55
Published: 13 Aug 2011
Uploaded: 13 Aug 2011
Author: JoeS231989

Arrving into Hosted Keynes Station is South Eastern & Chatham Railway C class No 592 enter platform 4&5 hauling the vintage carriages included newley restored London Chatham & Dover Railway-South Eastern & Chatham Railway livery No 3360.

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34067 Tangmere departs Victoria at the head of the Sussex Belle on 30 Mar 2011

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Duration: 2:33
Published: 30 Mar 2011
Uploaded: 15 May 2011
Author: bkendlerA4

Southern Railway Battle of Britain class 34067 Tangmere makes its first London appearance of 2011 at Victoria. Tangmere leaves the ex-London, Chatham & Dover terminus at Victoria at the head of the Sussex Belle on 30-Mar-2011. Tangmere and train will stay on the LCD main line until Ashford where they will turn onto South Eastern metals for the their destination Hastings

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Alkham.mp4

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Duration: 1:15
Published: 03 Oct 2010
Uploaded: 03 Oct 2010
Author: Hawkingetippyd

Alkham by Ian Hollis 4mm scale, EM gauge description from Folkestone MRC Exhibition programme During the last 40 years of the 19th centuary, there was an intense rivalry between the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and the South Eastern Railway. After the main routes were completed, the competition spread to the secondary lines such as the one from Folkestone to Canterbury and by 1884 bothn companies had a Bill before parliament. With "Alkham" I imagined that the LCDR Bill was adopted for a branch leaving the Canterbury to Dover line at kearnsey, running up the Alkham vally, under the ridge of the North Downs and down to Folkestone. This was built to double track main line standard. For the first 40 years, life on the line was gentle, and it even made a small profit for its investors. In the 1920's, however, the Kent coalfield arrived. A small coalmine would have been sunk at wolverton, a mile east of Alkham. This produced up to 5000 tons (400 wagon-loads) a week, and it became the busiest perios of the lines history. World Warr II brought big changes. The army commandered the line between Alkham and Folkestone and closed it to the public, so that they could hide an 18" rail-mounted gun in the tunnel under the downs as part of anti-invasion defences. A special curved spur was built at Havenfield to slew and aim the gun. After the was, the line was returned to the SR but traffic never regained pre0war levels. By the mid 1950s, BR had taken the decision to close the Alkham ...

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Ashford Railway Works, September 1959

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Duration: 2:17
Published: 03 Jan 2009
Uploaded: 12 Jul 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

Ashford Works in September 1959. Seen underoing overhaul are members of classes C2X (ex-London Brighton & South Coast Railway 0-6-0), Bulleid's 'Austerity' Q1 (ex-Southern Railway 0-6-0, the most poweful engines of this wheel arrangement ever to run in the British Isles, see www.semgonline.com ) and N (ex-South Eastern & Chatham Railway 2-6-0, see www.semgonline.com ). We then move outside to view the 'Elephant's Graveyard' of engines destined in the main for the cutters torch. Here we see ex-London & South Western Railway B4 class 0-4-0T No.30084 (see www.semgonline.com ), recently displaced from Dover docks, an ex-LSWR '700' class 0-6-0 (see www.semgonline.com ), an ex-LSWR T9 4-4-0 (see www.semgonline.com ), ex-SECR D class 4-4-0 No.31737 (awaiting restoration, having been chosen to represent the SECR in the National Collection, see www.semgonline.com ), a pair of ex-LBSC E4 class 0-6-4Ts (Nos.32519 and 32471, see www.semgonline.com ) and finally the poigniant sight of the last of the former South Eastern Railway R1 class 0-6-0Ts, recently displaced from the banking duties they had performed on the Folkestone Harbour branch since the 19th century by dismal ex-GWR pannier tanks (see www.semgonline.com ).

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Bluebell Railway Vintage Transport Weekend 13/08/11

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Duration: 0:10
Published: 13 Aug 2011
Uploaded: 16 Aug 2011
Author: JoeS231989

Here the newley restored London Chatham & Dover Railway carriages in South Eastern & Chatham Railway livery No 3360 at Sheffield Park Station.

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Trains At London Victoria Part 1/2 (15/09/2010)

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Duration: 14:51
Published: 19 Sep 2010
Uploaded: 06 Mar 2011
Author: IanPooleTrains

The main reason for coming to London in the first place, London Victoria and to see 44932 departing with The Battle Of Britain Memorial but here are some of the other trains that we saw along with that very engine. All videos are taken standing at the very end of platform two where we thought it was going to be but then found out that it was actually on five and that 67006 'Royal Soverign' and a VSOE special was on the platform! All videos that you see will have the whir of 67006 in the background and some you will see 44932 in the background On this part of the video, we see: SouthEastern Networker 465162 departing with the 2M40 10:25 service from London Victoria to Oprington via Herne Hill SouthEastern Networker 465171 and Networker 466003 departing on a light engine movement back to the depot SouthEastern Electrostar 375617 and 375822 arriving to terminate An unknown Southern/Gatwick Express Class 442 departing with the 1D54 10:30 service to Gatwick Airport SouthEastern Networker 465189 arriving to terminate Southern Trains Electrostar 377145 departing with the 2E30 10:31 service from London victoria to Horsham via Sutton and Epsom Southern Railways 455813 departing with the 1C62 10:32 service from London Victoria to Bognor Regis and Southampton Central Southern Railways 455801 departing with the 2R38 10:33 service from Sutton via Norbury SouthEastern Electrostar 375703 and 375814 arriving to terminate SouthEastern Networker 465926 departing with the 2N28 10:37 service ...

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Steam. Tornado 60163 overtakes snowbound Eurostar Javelins @ Ashford & Dover 21 Dec 09

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Duration: 1:48
Published: 01 Jan 2010
Uploaded: 16 Jun 2011
Author: KINGANDCASTLE

Static Javelins over taken at Ashford International and Dover Priory. The Javelin is a high speed domestic electric train. Video filmed from the White Cliffs Luncheon Express. London Victoria to Dover. 21 Dec 2009. All other services to Ashford suspended due to the snow. Notice the general lack of trains. BBC news feature:- news.bbc.co.uk Southeastern introduced a full timetable of domestic high-speed services over High Speed 1 between London St Pancras and Ashford International on 13 December 2009, although public preview services has been running since 29 June 2009. High-speed trains use High Speed 1 calling at Stratford International and Ebbsfleet International. Trains for the Medway towns and Faversham leave the high speed line at Ebbsfleet and continue via the North Kent line and Chatham Main Line. Trains for Dover Priory and Margate via Ashford International leave the high speed line at Ashford. 60163Tornado is a main-line steam locomotive built in Darlington, England, the first such locomotive built in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, in 1960. Designed to meet modern safety and certification standards, Tornado runs on the UK rail network and on mainline-connected heritage railways.

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Southern Steam In London - New Cross circa 1958

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Duration: 2:39
Published: 24 Feb 2010
Uploaded: 24 May 2011
Author: SouthernRailwayFilms

Superb colour footage filmed at New Cross in the late fifties, with much to enthral the Southern enthusiast. Assuming all the film was shot on the same day, the presence of 'Schools' No.30932 with her unique high sided tender and 'Hastings' 6-car DEMUs narrows down the date to between 6th May 1957 (when the DEMUs entered revenue earning service) and August 1958 (when No.30932 lost the aforementioned tender). 1) An unidentified V Class (aka 'Schools' Class) 4-4-0 with a rake consisting of an ex-South Eastern & Chatham Railway three-coach 'Birdcage' set and eight Maunsell "8-foot" coaches in plum and custard/blood and custard (your preference) livery. The locomotive headcode indicates a London-Hastings (via Chiselhurst and Tonbridge Wells Central) service. A heavy train but well within the capabilities of these most powerful of 4-4-0s. 2) The Bulleid double decker units 4001 and 4002, almost certainly plying their usual trade, a Charing Cross-Dartford service. 3) An eight car EMU formation consisting of a pre-war 3-car unit augmented with a steel bodied, noticeably Bulleid profile, trailer, and what I assume is a 4-SUB unit leading up the rear - the pre-war stock would not, and I am guessing here, have been interoperable with the later EPB units. 4) An S15 4-6-0 (it could be an N15 'King Arthur' but I see no nameplate) on a mixed rake of Maunsell and Bulleid stock. The headcode indicates a Folkestone or Dover bound service. 5) A Bulleid profile 4-EPB passes as a train ...

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Trains At London Victoria Part 2/2 (15/09/2010)

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Duration: 7:00
Published: 19 Sep 2010
Uploaded: 31 Dec 2010
Author: IanPooleTrains

The main reason for coming to London in the first place, London Victoria and to see 44932 departing with The Battle Of Britain Memorial but here are some of the other trains that we saw along with that very engine. All videos are taken standing at the very end of platform two where we thought it was going to be but then found out that it was actually on five and that 67006 'Royal Soverign' and a VSOE special was on the platform! All videos that you see will have the whir of 67006 in the background and some you will see 44932 in the background On this part of the video, we see: SouthEastern Networker 465905 departingin with the 1N30 11:07 service from London Victoria to Ashford International via Maidstone East Southern Railways 456008 departing with the 2N20 11:11 service from London Victoria to London bridge via Denmark Hill SouthEastern Networker 465117 departing with the 2U30 11:09 service from London Victoria to Dartford via Blexley Heath SouthEastern Networker 465020 departing with the 2M46 11:10 service from London Victoria to Orpington via Herne Hill Southern Railways 455833 departing with the 2Y91 11:13 service from Caterham via Norbury SouthEastern Networker 465011 arriving to terminate Southern Railways 455802 departing with the 2F18 11:19 service from London Victoria to London bridge via Crystal Palace SouthEastern Electrostar 375612 arriving to terminate British Railways Black 5 44932 departing with the 1Z82 11:28 West Coast Railways service from London ...

http://wn.com/Trains_At_London_Victoria_Part_2/2_15/09/2010