Cab Ride - Strood to Dartford

A cab ride aboard a Plasser & Theurer 08 type tamper from Strood to Dartford. This continues the journey started in the previous video.
Our journey takes us along the North Kent line past the famous Hoo Junction marshalling yards, through Gravesend and Greenhithe.
#cabride #railway #tamper #train #strood #hoojunction #gravesend #greenhithe #dartford

[@paulmark63]

thank you as always great video paul in kent

[@emmo999]

Thank you! Next section to come, once I get chance in a few days

[@SusanSpicer-o7c]

My father was a signaller at higham in the late 1960s

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for today’s video. Always relaxing and enjoyable. See you on the next emmo999. Cheers mate! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

[@emmo999]

Thanks for the comments. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video emmo, some incredible engineering to build those tunnels👌, lovely information 👌👍😀

[@emmo999]

Cheers, Shaun, as always 👍🏻

[@heckelphon]

Thanks for another great video. A route I just didn't know. Those with rattle-aversion will have liked the tunnels: very smooth ride through them, and hardly any sideways movements!

[@emmo999]

It could have been so much worse, with the sounds echoed around us making them louder! 😂

[@andrewpalm2103]

The gentle curves and long stretches of tangent track were pleasant surprises on this part of your route. But then lately I've been watching several video cab rides on Japanese meter gauge lines which seem to be all curves and even more tunnels than you have! 🙂 Thanks for another nice ride and cheers from Wisconsin!

[@emmo999]

There’s very little long sections straight of straight track around this area, as it winds its way around the North Downs, rivers and local geography

[@stevehornsby7727]

I always look forward to your videos. 👍

[@emmo999]

I appreciate that! Thank you

[@timstephenson4520]

Enjoyable video for a very wet Friday

[@emmo999]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it

[@MAX0056]

Great video, as always.

[@emmo999]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@haddockman30]

Great video as always. Keep up the good work.

[@emmo999]

Thank you. Will edit the next part in the next few days

[@deltic1964]

Looking forward to the next one already

[@emmo999]

Thank you. Hopefully I can get the next one done in a few days

[@deltic1964]

@@emmo999 Cannot Wait keep them coming

[@franktuckwell196]

Drove that route many times in epb s and networkers.

[@Pixel_pixie963]

Used to do this journey in the early 1990s. Trains always stopped at the halt.

[@emmo999]

Nothing stops there now. The platforms purely remain because it’s easier than removing them!

[@TheMisterB2u]

That warning board for 40 approaching Dartford should be removed.The 40 doesn't start till Dartford junction and like you stated there is a 20mph restriction before that(either side of Dartford station).

[@emmo999]

There is a very brief period of 40mph immediately before the 20mph. If you have access to the Sectional Appendix, you’ll note a 40mph stretch from the crossover before Dartford There is a sign at 23:48 in the video, but it’s small and should be large. I have always ignored the 40mph anyway, due to need to slow for the 20mph

[@kevsbangerracers2027]

Hi any new cab ride videos coming up soon

[@eswnl1]

Would be interesting to see a side by side comparison with the TSW game.

[@JessyP-u6q]

1531 yards 1531 yards 1531 yards

[@phwbooth]

Great, and the commentary is a model of what such things should be. Thanks.

[@emmo999]

Thank you for the feedback. I try to keep it interesting, without being overloading and distracting

[@phwbooth]

@@emmo999 You succeed....

[@emmo999]

Thank you

[@keithhitchings8911]

Having watched part 1 and now on part 2 no.passengers at stations although there is a train parked at Strood. Was this filmed on a strike day?

[@emmo999]

Yes. Passenger trains (what few there were) were running from Dartford towards London

[@sgtgrash]

As we ride through Strood, I'd like to give a big shout-out to any ex Temple Secondary School boys, especially those who frequented this old, draughty establishment during the 1970s 🫡

[@emmo999]

I’m sure - if any are watching - they’ll appreciate your sentiment 😅

[@John2Ward]

And I still don't know what the final destination is to be, unless I missed it somewhere along the way. Perhaps it's a secret...

[@emmo999]

I haven’t posted the final destination, because it wasn’t largely relevant for the video. It happened to be Woking Up Yard, but the camera battery died before I got that far (I’ve previously uploaded that part of the journey anyway)

[@John2Ward]

@@emmo999 That is true: I remember it well.

[@johncourtneidge]

Once the Industrial Revolution/Period started, North Kent ('The White Country' cf 'The Black Country') was never a pretty place. But #ThatDamnedTunnel and #ThatDamnedEU and #ThatDamnedWomanMargaretHilda ruined our #BelovedKent. Grrr!

[@rickmeyrick4357]

A great but inevitable OTM Shake Rattle & Roll movement, at least you got a good road for the most part.

[@emmo999]

They’re necessarily set up relatively hard for the work they do, which means rattles inevitably form over time

[@davidpanton3192]

From Charles Dickens to Mick Jagger...

[@emmo999]

That should have been the subtitle! 😅

[@russellhunter8378]

Via Pochahontas at Gravesend

[@Pixel_pixie963]

Did a freight train derail in this area a couple of years ago?

[@emmo999]

One did coming out of Hoo Jn towards Higham. You’ll note the lighter ballast on that side where the line has been renewed (whether that’s coincidence or due to the derailment, I have no info)