Out of interest what driver depot are those who drive the oxted lines based out of ?

Ah Trafficators!. Be careful tightening the wheel nuts, they have a reputation for snapping the studs. It's almost as fast as your Tamper.😀

Good to see the person behind the camera from the train videos. Or in this case in front of the camera 👍

That evoked a memory or two ( My uncle had one of these ) . And a quick , thumbs up and thanks for your train cab rides . Gradually working my way through them .

Very nostalgic. Reminds me a bit of travelling in a Ford V8 and a post war Rover as a child.

My dad bought one of these in 1954 reg. CUD12 (it was also a 1947 car ) for £325 IIRC, kept it for 3 years during which time a new engine had to be fitted. Btw, are trafficator arms still legal, or do you have to have flashers as well? 50+ years ago I ran into the back of an old Austin that turned left suddenly - I hadn't noticed his trafficator arm out...

Hi Emmo a different video from your usual train cab videos

What a lovely car! Nice to get to witness the very precise-acting trafficators, as well. I remember how on some cars those would often get slower and slower to operate until they would at best droop out of the B post reluctantly with a very dim orange glow to show you were about to turn. Also that great sound of the straight-toothed first gear. But no double de-clutching necessary as synchromesh on 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

My grandmother has one of these when I was first born, so it was one of the earliest cars I remember travelling in.

Makes me wonder how they coped with semaphore signals at night? I imagine that colour light signals are easier to see at night than at daytime, except, perhaps, when the line is close to a residential street, and the street lighting can look like yellows?

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Fab video. Well done

For I knew that I could Gofrom Maidstone to Paddock Wood Then bus home totea Arrive at half past three

Another lovely ride through Kent countrysideI used to take the train to get home again

nice ride throught the countryside shame a bird had to go to the toilet on the way LOL!

Many thanks! I see that this was before the Bermondsey Diveunder was complete, but after the Tanners Hill Flydown had been double-tracked. London Bridge rebuild not yet complete, either. I used to use this route (albeit on the Bexleyheath line) to get to/from work.

Good large captions--refreshing

Excellent video! Greetings from NYC 🗽

This is a very pleasant journey, through some superb countryside.

bad sound or none

Nice one 👍😊

As someone who lives in the Oxted area, I can say that the crossover at Woldingham is rarely used. Great video though!

Back in the say trains in the rush hour would can in from CharingvCross and Cannot street to Sanderstead via the mid Kent line

Great vlog just found you, I know you put a lot of details on like stations etc, but being from the North it would be good if you could put other landmarks on like the football ground that was on the left towards the end of the vlog cheers. 😊😊

Brilliant.

Just as the train pulls out of Waterloo East, on the left you can make out the old branch line that used to go into Waterloo station. Those who read ‘War of the Worlds’ will recall this being reopened to allow troop movements to fight the Martians.

Fun fact: This line runs extremely close the Caterham line for a short stretch after Riddlesdown Tunnel (which is something I only realised not too long ago)! Upper Warlingham and Whyteleafe Stations are within line of sight of one another and are served by the same bus stop!

They still call it the Holborn Down?! 😊

Great video, many thanks. I didn’t know there used to be a spur from Birkbeck to Kent House.

Excellent video my friends

Great to see from the front one of our favourite trips to the start of the Bluebell Railway. We had a really good couple of days there staying at a bnb in Horsted Keynes, enjoying the steam and the history.

great video, i have family in Redhill. im living in Dublin

Many thanks for another excellent video, ending at my old stomping ground in the Bickley / Bromley South area. I like the informative sub-titles.

Many thanks for an interesting video. Between Bromley South and Bickley you passed very close to the two houses where I grew up in the 60s - 70s (the days of beloved EPBs and other slam-door stock 💚 ). One thing I can't quite make out: are the AWS beeps different, depending on the signal aspect?

And at the time, the third rail stopped at Sanderstead, as it only served the Elmers End/ Sanderstead service

See the track points just after leaving Sanderstead, are a throw back from the Elmers End to Sanderstead service, the train would leave Sanderstead, cross over at those points for its return journey to Elmers End

I remember the Bridge at Sanderstead being replaced in the 60's, the road was close, but a temporary footbridge was put up

nice video

The disused station between South Croydon and Sanderstead is Selsdon, not Selhurst as stated. Selhurst is on the line from East Croydon northwards to Victoria before Thornton Heath.

Petts Wood was a town built around the station - the estate agents followed, then the pub in the Station Square.

Coming into Lingfield, the housing on the right is built on the site of the old goods yard and banana sheds - fair bit of banana traffic at one time.

Nice to see another line not often covered. Interesting that you're on a passenger service, do you work for more than one TOC?

At Dormans there is a differential speed board 40 over 65. Was that simply to regulate the freight movements clearing the Imberhorne landfill site for the Bluebell? I can't imagine there would be any other freight traffic to or beyond East Grinstead, so is it now just a relic of that period of intense working?

Great video. I didn't realise you drove freight and passenger service. 👍

Right from the first second, memory jumps out at me. 1958 I think it was, making my usual trek from the station down the road to the left of shot towards Cherry Orchard Road to my gran's house in Ovel Road. Looking to my left down into the country end of platform 6, there was a Black Five simmering at the starting signal, probably with an inter-region excursion to the south coast - although at that time I would not have known this at the ripe old age of eleven...strangely enough, thinking about that event and bearing in mind the route your train is about to take, I realised that, despite my life long love affair with Southern electrics and railways in general, I only ever three times ventured south of East Croydon. Once on a weekend 8-SUB excursion to Brighton with my gran. Once to Horley with my parents to visit my older brother who was then living in a home for the intellectually handicapped near Gatwick. And once when I fell into an alcohol-induced sleep on the last semi-fast service of the day, missed my East Croydon and eventually woke up as the train pulled into Brighton!

Great video, comments very helpful especially history of parts closed

Selsdon not Selhurst

I thought the Southern services to East Grinstead normally pass through South Croydon without stopping and not calling at South Croydon and the only service that does call at South Croydon is the Caterham and Tattenham Corner service dividing and attaching at Purley

Great ride thank you paul in Kent

Selhurst after South Croydon?