Cab Ride - East Croydon to Orpington
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2021
- A ride aboard a Plasser 09 type tamper from East Croydon to Orpington. This requires reversal in the tunnel at Crystal Palace, which is shown fully. After Orpington, the machine reversed again and went into Hither Green PAD, but as I have shown this in my Paddock Wood-Hither Green video, I did not record it again.
Incidentally, I neglected to add a caption explaining that once on the Tonbridge Loops, signalling passes from Victoria Eastern (VS) to Ashford IECC (AD)
At Hither Green, one of the tampers was dropped off and shut down, and one came back out and continued to Ashford International. That entire journey will be the next upload - Авто та транспорт
Back in the early 60’s I was visiting relatives who overlooked the rail line & Birkbeck cemetery. Looking out the bathroom window in the gloom I heard the clanking of a steam loco. Sure enough an old SECR C class loco wheezed her way along the track. Seeing you passing through Birkbeck brought it all back.
Thanks for this video. An interesting trip which you can't travel by ordinary trains. The captions were informative too.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed it
A beautiful day for the train ride. Always enjoy them. See you on the next! ❤😊
Excellnt video, thank you. Changing ends 𝑖𝑛 a tunnel must be a fairly rare event; can't think of anywhere I've seen it happen before.😁
This is the first of your videos that I've seen, so just subscribed and will have a good look through your other stuff.👍👌
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
Good stuff. Glad you enjoyed it. More videos to upload soon!
Great video emmo, really nice journey, very imformative captions 👌👍😀
Really enjoyed that. I lived in Orpington about 40 years ago. It's always nice to see how much the area has changed.
Glad you enjoyed it, my next video will pass through Orpington too from Hither Green towards Sevenoaks and beyond
Brilliant! I enjoyed that journey as always! Been to Victoria loads of times and always wondering where the other lines went and now I know, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more to come!
Thank you for the video, I enjoyed that - I grew up in the area. Very nice footage, with decent quality.
The unit seems to pick up speed quickly!
They’re quite cumbersome, but when the mood takes them do go well
@@emmo999 And when it gets into an angry mood it becomes a tamper with a temper...
As I remember it, the connection that was lost, which you say linked East Croydon and Beckenham Junction, actually went through to NORWOOD JUNCTION and was useable only in the "towards Norwood Jn " direction. I think it's only regular user was a coal train from one of the Kent collieries to Croydon's gas works, along the West Croydon - Mitcham - Wimbledon line (later converted to a tram line).
I did ride over this single track, single direction line once - on an enthuiast's special which sought out bits of line generally impossible for the public to cover.
Ah brilliant, thanks for that! I’d seen the spur on a map, but that was the limit to my knowledge of it
It does seem ironic that you cannot get to Bromley through Bromley Junction without an awkward reversal at Crystal Palace. It's a shame that this link was removed. As someone who has lived in the area for 20 years, you'd be surprised at how many people want to travel between local towns without having to bounce off of Central London. Bromley to Croydon is a very popular journey for locals and is currently only possible by car, or via a 40 minute bus ride.
Thank you so much. This is the first time that I've been through a Tonbridge Loop track. I've been wanting to ride it for years. Please do unusual routings like this more often !! Video people just don't seem to think it is sexy enough to do these strange loops and ramps, an so on. This is so much more exciting than just going up and down the Brighton main line ad nauseam; that's been done over and over. DO MORE STRANGE ROUTINGS !! Pretty please. I am subscribed with all notifications, and I always give a thumbs up. Aarre Peltomaa
For me, these odd loops are quite normal. I try to record as much as I can, especially when it’s interesting track. It’s just having a daylight run, otherwise you can’t see anything on the screen
Excellent video. It shows common sense to the viewer where station names are shown and the various routes. I’m afraid some of these cab view videos do not show these details I think they assume people viewing all live in the area being shown. Well done can’t wait to see more in the future 10 out of 10
Thanks for the feedback. The next video should be up in a few days once I get time to edit it together
Excellent video thanks for sharing 👍
Glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more to come!
@@emmo999 nice can't wait 😊
Cool, Looks like a nice train
Another very enjoyable video. Do you take your own sun when filming as you seem to get good weather usually?
Just luck! I’ve been out filming today… and it’s rained. So I shall probably have to reshoot it. I actually prefer cloudy days, because the sun directly in front is really annoying for the camera
long time since i was down that neck of the woods, East Croydon, Eden Park, Elmers End, West Wickham, Hayes to name a few.
I have recorded a Hayes run, a few years back. I’m due to re-record it, as plenty has changed in the Bermondsey/London Bridge areas
Lovely sky that day!......and why no mention of Norwood crew room in subtitles?
Should there be? It’s only just visible on the left behind the fuelling point as we pass. And yes, I get very very lucky with the weather when I’m filming, I can’t deny! 👍🏻
The track going off to the left at 27:07 - the up Chatham loop - does anything still use that bit of track? There's a lovely footbridge over it with no caging and the track is still wooden sleepers. I waited for some pictures down there but nothing came along.
I don’t think there’s much. Only used I think when there’s engineering works and trains from
St Mary Cray turn towards Chislehurst. I have seen MPVs using the downside spur in both directions as it’s bidirectional, but I’ve never seen this spur used
@@emmo999 ah okay, thanks for the info. Looking forward to more uploads
I see it being used a lot during morning peak when there are Ramsgate - London Canon Street Services via Chatham that use the track.
Basic question Emm…how do the controllers know you are doing this journey please? Do you submit the plan beforehand to a central office or do the signallers find out that day on a work schedule and fit you in amongst all the traffic? I’d be interested to know how the preparation involved works.
All routes are logged with Network Rail planning. They find a path to fit around other traffic. You have normal working timetable services, or STP (short term plans), or VAR (variances such as small changes due to engineering works), or VSTP (very short term plan) which is very very last minute runs
@@emmo999 thanks Emm…sounds like a stressful job🤯
Has one of these locos got flats by any chance
That's a good locomotive yes please
Very interesting, but some of your captions got a bit lost in the foliage.
I used to have them at the bottom of the screen, but people wanted to have an unobstructed view of the track, so I moved them. Kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place!
@@emmo999 You could have them as white text on a black box. Look at one of the bus videos from Graham Ross to see what they are like.
Cool, What passenger operator runs these lines
Southern operate the trains as far as Beckenham Junction. After that, the trains are Southeastern’s
@@emmo999 Oh ok, thanks for lettingnme know
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Great video I just think the camera should be lowered slightly, just feel it's a little too high.
I don’t have any choice at the moment. Because the camera is mounted with a suction mount it’s quite close to the glass. As you’ll note from the thumbnail, the glass is angled, so the camera is forced to look up a little
P.S. What was the panic to get to Orpington ? What's the driver/motorman going to do now that he is there ? You should include that info, unless it is confidential. Aarre Peltomaa
Sorry; I just now read the forenote at the top that I should have read from the beginning. It still brings the question, though; why is the shuffle of MofW vehicles needed ? Aarre Peltomaa
It was part of a longer journey. We reversed there and headed back to Hither Green. This information was in the video description, so was included, but wasn’t recorded as I’d already shown that route fairly recently
@@emmo999 Thanks ! Aarre Peltomaa
Vehicles need moving between sidings depending where they’re working the next shift. In this case, we’d worked from East Croydon sidings on a job at Balham, whereas their next shifts were into Kent, so one machine was dropped at Hither Green, the other went to Ashford
@@emmo999 Awesome. Now I understand !! Do you do the tamping also, or only move the Tampers around between jobs ?
Aarre Peltomaa
You need to be careful with your subtitles. Some are unreadable, particularly when you let a dark text go over a batch of dark trees.