Morden Road Tram Stop: Morden Meets the Eye

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@JagoHazzard Ай бұрын

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@kgbgb3663 Ай бұрын

4:42. I'm a bit confused about how right-of-centre outlets not carrying left-of-centre critique of something said by someone right-of-centre is a "blind spot". Do they accuse the left of having a "blind spot" when the situation is the reverse? I think we can see just how "objective" _Ground News_ really is.

@kgbgb3663 Ай бұрын

It's interesting that my comment arguing that _Ground News_ is far from objective (with evidence taken from your clip of it) gets hidden.

@CarolineFord1 Ай бұрын

@@kgbgb3663 It's certainly very American

@ZGryphon Ай бұрын

Gotta be honest, the news is (are?) among the last things I want to risk further exposure to nowadays, but I appreciate their support for the channel, all the same.

@highpath4776 Ай бұрын

@@kgbgb3663 A lot of news is syndicated , via PA or similar and "Reach" / Trinity Mirror own a lot of local and nationals. Sometimes I read / watch Aj Jazeera/ Russia Today just to see their take on things even If I dont agree with them. the Jellygraph used to be better than the times for objective reporting but its scope and more opinion over recent years has ruined it for me

@spencerhardy8667 Ай бұрын

3:00 reminds me of my favourite Victorian joke. "I say, stationmaster, would it not have been better to put the station in the village where the people are?" "No, sir, the company thought it best to put it here, where the trains are."

@nickchambers3935 Ай бұрын

Amazing, where’s this from?

@Damien.D Ай бұрын

@@nickchambers3935 France? Describe very well our high speed lines network. With station colloquially named after what is grown in the field nearby....

@grahvis Ай бұрын

It goes along with the town dignitaries that said those noisy, smelly engines are not spoiling our town.

@DavidShepheard Ай бұрын

11:52 "I don't have any footage of Beddington Lane..." LMAO!

@ianmcarthur3555 Ай бұрын

We're lucky he wasn't talking about Cockfosters :p This channel is required watching if you live in London, it manages to be informative and entertaining.

@weerwolfproductions Ай бұрын

It's the bed from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

@theresabradley4716 Ай бұрын

I snorted with laughter at that.

@brancaster8145 13 күн бұрын

When I was young I was often taken on the train between Wimbledon and Croydon with my mum and brother. In those days Croydon was a place to go. We had a large old pram which could only be put in the front carriage as that had the space reserved for large goods. Anyway we'd done this journey many times and one day the driver of the train from Wimbledon asked if I wanted to drive the train. This was the 80s and so I sat on the lap of (probably) the guard whilst the driver sat in the other seat and I drove the train to Morden Road. I remember pressing buttons and pushing handles. I was about 3 or 4 at the tine.

@MrGreatplum 16 күн бұрын

Excellent video, Jago. The Surrey iron railway fascinates me especially as its extension finished in merstham just down the road from me.

@SnowdriftBoy Ай бұрын

I just love the fact that in this world of “normal jobs” there are ppl like you who do this sort of stuff and give us the first class factual entertainment programming that TV has largely lost!👏👏👏

@petertooth2831 Ай бұрын

“It only took 140 years.” That’s pretty speedy, people appreciate it more if you make them wait for it. JH makes great videos, thank you.

@crossleydd42 Ай бұрын

The LSBCR South London Line from Victoria to London Bridge, when converted from overhead catenary to third rail by Southern Railway, converted the now surplus driving-cab power cars and classified them as 2SL (2-car South London) sets. They were definitely driving cab coaches, as they retained their flat roofs over the driving cabs where the pantographs had originally been (see brief glimpse of these trains on the video at 09:12). Around 1950, I used to get the train from Merton Park to Morden Halt Station to see my uncle who worked for Triang Toys in the industrial estate near the latter station and I knew the trains intimately. Their headcode was 2. They were scrapped around 1953.

@Steeyuv Ай бұрын

I have little interest in either London or the details of various forms of public transport, but your videos are so well-made and entertaining, I watch them all. Thanks.

@JagoHazzard Ай бұрын

And thank you!

@JW1_1 13 күн бұрын

“for once I don’t see the railways pulling a fast one”😩🤣

@iankr Ай бұрын

Love the travelling bed.

@tomasjones3755 Ай бұрын

That was Edd China, at the helm of the travelling bed

@weerwolfproductions Ай бұрын

@@tomasjones3755 I had to watch it again to check if it was him, and then noticed it's an IKEA bedframe! I got the same bedframe!

@regkray Ай бұрын

Boris Johnson @ 11:57?! 😏

@IIVQ Ай бұрын

I only now understand the Surrey Iron Railway was originally using horses, not locomotives, for traction! That made a few things click in place. Thanks Jago!

@tonyaustin4472 Ай бұрын

There is, or used to be, some preserved iron rail from the Surrey Iron Railway in Purley Recreation Ground, Brighton Road, Purley. There were also a few stretches of trackbed visible between Croydon and Merstham…but I’m guessing with the construction of the M23 and all the housing that’s occurred since I was a lad back in the early 1950’s, it’s probably disappeared :-)

@MrGreatplum 16 күн бұрын

@@tonyaustin4472- there’s a bridge easily visible by the Starbucks in Hooley as well as a couple of surviving buildings…

@JohnSmith-mn6jz 29 күн бұрын

The out of station interchange is non existent! It's a good 15 minute walk

@FelixvonMontfort Ай бұрын

Ok, i'm a train enthusiast from Austria. But can anyone tell my why I'm now so interested in London public transport? Well must be Jago....

@Damien.D Ай бұрын

French here, and since the UK is the birthplace of railways and London the birthplace of subways, there is a massive amount of historical fact that will interest any train nerd of the world behind many station and bits of railway of the UK. This example is perfect, this trackbed and station location started its life as the first horse drawn public tram line... (and Jago is a fantastic narrator and railway historian).

@AlexWindsor Ай бұрын

English here - because we were the first, we are also the worst, which means that every other country in the world can learn from our mistakes, which from the Victorian times to HS2 keep happening !

@RichardFelstead1949 Ай бұрын

Australian here. UK is THE home of railways.

@angusbeef9200 Ай бұрын

Im from australia

@f1oryan719 Ай бұрын

Maybe it's the fascination for a working public transport we austrians who dont live in vienna fail to fathom🥲

@jaakkomantyjarvi7515 Ай бұрын

I've said it before and I'll say it again: One does not simply walk into Morden.

@emjackson2289 Ай бұрын

I'd make sure you do use the train between Epping and Gondor

@MichaelBennett000 Ай бұрын

literally 😅 I like to take scenic routes to reduce my exposure to motorists

@paulketchupwitheverything767 Ай бұрын

It got a mention but there was a surprising amount of industry very near to the station including well known Tri-ang toys, Connolly leather, William Morris fabrics and other factories on the Merton Industrial Estate.

@hreader Ай бұрын

I feel the modern equivalent of Road is Parkway!

@PaulJaYmes Ай бұрын

For anyone wondering, I believe the station pictured at 9:28 is Wandsworth Road

@jcr_jcr Ай бұрын

Cheerio. That video was great. I travelled from Merton Park to Wimbledon every morning in the early 1970s on the old rattlerly train. Lovely oldmanual signal box at Merton Park road crossing. Baton handover. Had to walk over a metal footbridge half way down the track. Now I travel on the tram almost daily to and from Wimbledon, Waddon Marsh and Croydon from Mitcham. Fantastic service. Clean and efficient. Hope the powers that be never, ever nationalise the railways.

@f.g.9466 Ай бұрын

The incredible irony of your last sentence, just after praising the fantastic service on Tramlink... which is owned by TfL.

@brianfretwell3886 Ай бұрын

I certainly remember the 2EPB that ran the shuttle in its last days waiting at platform 10 at Wimbledon to return to Croydon. Thankfully there were only 2 other trains an hour that used it as a through line. Now it is Tram only with all Thameslink trains using platform 9, still two an hour in each direction.

@birdbrain4445 Ай бұрын

Tramlink, continuing to be the shot in the arm to neglected commuter lines that were victims of attempted (or successful) closure by stealth. Very much like the Overground in that sense. That line and this station are, in many ways, better than it's ever been. Great video!

@bostonrailfan2427 Ай бұрын

“i don’t have footage of Beddington Lane, so here’s a bed” that’s an acceptable substitute, the snark and humility is accepted

@angelmessenger8240 Ай бұрын

As some who doesn't travel, I often go on tram rides via the tram drivers pov videos on youtube. I spend much time in Holland, Germany and Poland. I love the trams and wish we could have them instead of buses but our roads aren't wide enough in a lot of places.

@johnd6487 Ай бұрын

Aww.. have you tried the ones on the Swiss railways? I've often lost an hour cruising through the mountains from the comfort of my armchair 😊

@weerwolfproductions Ай бұрын

it's not just the provinces of Holland that have cities with trams, the province of Utrecht in The Netherlands does too. Trams can go through narrow streets, providing there's a no-stopping restriction for other vehicles.

@rufflycorrect Ай бұрын

You've got to admire the cut to a motorised bedstead on the mention of Beddington Lane. Now that's creative editing at its finest!

@brianrobinson4401 23 күн бұрын

Yes I did see that also its Edd China from Wheeler dealers who was the driver

@dancedecker Ай бұрын

Edd China on his street legal double bed. Had a go on it at Bill McAlpine's open day earlier this year. It was excellent. Nearly as excellent as your video, Jago. Many thanks.

@jennycarpenter8404 Ай бұрын

Love that you included Edd China's bed car! Brilliant Jx

@grahamstubbs4962 Ай бұрын

The guard also acted as a conductor. Now that is a challenging job on a recently electrified railway.

@camenbert5837 Ай бұрын

Shocking...

@neilmossey Ай бұрын

Brilliant video thanks It's also the nearest station to Sun Hill Police Station from The Bill - filmed round the corner in Deer Park Road, complete with fake exterior, police, court and hospital interiors and entire fake street with bus stop which once you've seen it you can't stop seeing it still being used in ads and other TV shows today... you can see it on the satellite image on Google maps - behind the Wimbledon Studios...

@wilsjane 25 күн бұрын

Numerous fun times. They shot an episode of London's Burning on the adjacent industrial estate where gas lines were used to produce the fire in an old warehouse. Unfortunately the fire spread to an adjoining warehouse completely gutting it destroying half a million pounds in stock. What was so amusing for the onlookers was the fire engines packing up and driving away. When the real fire brigade arrived, they asked the police to close the road, only to discover that the police were a film unit from The Bill. It started an enquiry and things turned quite nasty. Laws were passed preventing film units wearing emergency service uniforms, or driving any vehicles marked as emergency services on a public road unless the road was closed for the filming. Prior to that The Bill shot quite a lot, where the general public produced the backdrop, so it made things very difficult. One of their favourite locations was Morden Sainsburys loading yard and car park. Another location was the Colliers Wood youth center, along with numerous houses behind Morden road station in Merton Park, including ours.

@neilmossey 24 күн бұрын

@wilsjane this is such a brilliant read ☝️thanks so much!!!

@delurkor Ай бұрын

Sunday morning, cup of coffee, cat purring and a Jago Hazzard video. 👍👍👍

@robertcohen6174 Ай бұрын

Well done JH - superb story and information - Morden rocks! Well it politely shakes 😂😂

@mikedyble3648 Ай бұрын

Used this station fairly regularly around 1979 when I worked in Deer Park Road. It felt like a total backwater then more like a branch line deep in the country that avoided the Beeching axe.

@andrewpinner3181 Ай бұрын

Thanks Jago, that bed-machine-car-thingy ! Couldn't find footage ! 😅😅😅

@peterroberts6933 Ай бұрын

I remember that line from 1986. I had a job on the Purley Way and the nearest stop was Waddon Marsh. Always a bit “in the middle of nowhere”, it was terrifying on a Winter evening.

@rupep2424 Ай бұрын

FYI: the Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Railway (CMGR), an extension to the Surrey Iron Railway (SIR), opened in 1803. There's a nice footpath including a bit of its route just outside the M25 near Redhill.

@kgbgb3663 Ай бұрын

For the avoidance of doubt, the "Godstone" in the title of the railway was an aspiration rather then a fact. It never actually got beyond Merstham quarry. I'm surprised they didn't put Portsmouth in the title, as that was another aspiration!

@tonyaustin4472 Ай бұрын

See my note above :-) there used to be some preserved trackway with rail in Purley; no idea if it’s still there though

@NineWorldsFromDrew Ай бұрын

Used to be my nearest tram stop! Where you filmed was just the other side of the pub, and about a hundred yards away, from the house on Morden Road where I used to live.

@CarolineFord1 Ай бұрын

I had to use this when I had a nursing placement in Mitcham. It was the best way of getting from the tram to the Northern Line at Morden, and it's a bit of a walk (although an out-of-station interchange I think)

@marchampson006 Ай бұрын

Hiya Jago ive got on and off at Morden Road tram stop a few times when meeting up with my dad who worked at Thames Televison(Bill Set) down Deer park Road always a good stroll through the industrial estate. Ive also know the Balham-Morden stretch on the Northern line going way back back to the early 1960's Marc In Bletchley G6XEG

@drewsmodelrailwayworld4856 Ай бұрын

Thanks for another insight to London's transport, it brought back memories because as a youngster I lived in a flat within sight of the Morden tube station. Is this the same line that went through Mitcham, I seem to remember that was served by 2-Car DMU's. ....Drew

@norbitonflyer5625 Ай бұрын

No, it used EMUs from the 1920s until conversion to trams in 1999

@highpath4776 Ай бұрын

Have I mentioned the Stationmaster at Morden Road Halt ? He was killed in WW2 on a bomb strike somewhat leaving his two daughters effective orphans, mum went to school with one of them and knew her from the area until recently, I think she died about a year before covid (time goes so fast I cannot always remember - I will have to check 1939 register next time on free access days

@johnturner4400 Ай бұрын

“The guard acted as a conductor”….. on an electric train? I’d be asking for more money for that one.

@tonyaustin4472 Ай бұрын

They still do….plenty of trains in East Anglia, you pay on the train, like you used to do on the buses when they had clippies :-)

@bungaIowbill Ай бұрын

@@tonyaustin4472read it again 😊

@pauljmccluskey5532 Ай бұрын

22:18 Hi Jago, shocked to see tram footage with track covered in a dusting of snow! We’ve had no snow here in Norfolk 😅

@statistics_em Ай бұрын

I've been watching these videos for several weeks now, but "I don't have any footage of Beddington Lane, so here's a bed" just earned you a subscribe 😂

@nigelcole1936 Ай бұрын

A great video which I enjoyed Morden any other that I watched today

@ChavJag Ай бұрын

I'm right near beddington Lane. You should pop in for a cuppa and a jaw some time :-) When the weathers nice i like going to Morden Road then walking up to the big sainsburys at colliers wood then bop back to mitcham common. Nice little trip out

@Bondek1996 Ай бұрын

My go-to tram stop past few years, especially for the tube challenge. Handy for South Wim to Wimbledon or vice versa.

@peterbradburn9115 Ай бұрын

Nice to see Edd China make a guest appearance 😄

@sc687k Ай бұрын

Enjoying the car at 14:18. I'm guessing the men in it are unaccustomed to being merely extras in a shot of the front of a relatively unremarkable underground station.

@Anonymoususer_8823 29 күн бұрын

Croydon Tramlink is still the best tram line in South London. And I do like trams a lot.

@john1703 Ай бұрын

South Wimbledon even has a 1935 Lagonda Tourer. 😁

@lawrencelewis2592 Ай бұрын

With a Weymann body, too!

@kimvibk9242 Ай бұрын

@@lawrencelewis2592 What a beauty! 😘

@JoeWight-g2m Ай бұрын

I actually travelled on the raikleay. Signal boxes at every crossing. They exchaned tokens at each signal box

@ianhelps3749 Ай бұрын

The suffix "Halt" was eliminated from all Southern Region stations in 1969. Sandhurst Halt on the Reading to Guildford line became simply Sandhurst. However, station announcers would still use the old name into the mid 1970s: "Next train at this platform calling at Crowthorne, Sandhurst Halt, Blackwater, Farnborough North..."

@matthewhopson964 Ай бұрын

I always thought that a Halt was named as such because the Driver had to halt the locomotive to exchange the Token giving them permiossion to use that section of line.

@robinjones6999 Ай бұрын

My old stomping ground so found this most interesting

@asldkjaslkdj Ай бұрын

I used this station the other week, felt like a long walk from South Wimbledon tube, but maybe that's just me!

@pras12100 Ай бұрын

Yay! The Surrey Iron Railway (SIR) got mentioned again😀 Just one small nitpick this time, I know the building at 02:18 is called "Station Court" but is there any evidence that it was part of a station? From what I heard it was built as the house of a well-to-do merchant about the time SIR was being constructed. The arch led to the stables and a storage area at the rear. I assume the merchant saw a business opportunity in the SIR and wanted to be next to it.

@Madonsteamrailways Ай бұрын

A great little video, telling a wonderful story of old railways.

@SmudgeThomas Ай бұрын

The Surrey Iron Railway is one of those "I wish we made more of it" things in London

@757Spy 13 күн бұрын

The building 13:15 into the video looks like something that could have been in a 70s or 80s "future" movie. Not too scary, but still had that 'vibe. 1975's Rollerball maybe?

@tonys1636 Ай бұрын

Can't actually remember the old GLC trams in South London as we had moved to the suburbs when they were withdrawn, Nan was always going on about being crammed in on the lower deck amongst 20 odd standing passengers, not ladylike to go upstairs for her, she called them boneshakers as rattled, bounced and rolled side to side. She loved the Trolley Buses that replaced them, as did I. Even in the 60's I was chopping the old tarred Cedarwood blocks that surrounded the tram tracks for noise reduction for firewood at Nan's house, supplied by London Coal Merchants. They were lethal for cars and bikes when wet. The Croydon network should have gone double deck but it uses too much of the old rail tracks, a lot of the roads used still have the same lampposts that carried the tram and trolleybus wires and the new tram wires.

@edwardsadler7515 Ай бұрын

In his book 'Roads and Rails of London', author Charles Klapper recalled that sitting in front of a fireplace where salvaged wood tramway blocks were burning would risk being hit by pieces of hot gravel being spat into the room! Was this your experience? Thanks.

@tonys1636 Ай бұрын

@@edwardsadler7515 Split for kindling, although Mother did often ask for me to bring some home from Gran's when getting low on Anthracite for the Aga. Both Nan and Mum always had a spark guard in front of the fires.

@tonyaustin4472 Ай бұрын

Good to read your comment…my dad took me as a small child on one of the very last trams in Croydon and I can still remember that unique sensation and sound of it moving on the track…there can’t be many of us that remember trams in London :-) As for trolleybuses, absolutely my favourite! Not just riding on them, my lord the acceleration! But going all over London on a Red Rover collecting bus numbers….still got my Ian Allen books lol

@kaitlyn__L Ай бұрын

“Good evening,” begins a video released at midday

@northernblue1093 Ай бұрын

Better than "Hi Guys" introducing a video punctuated by "so, yeah".

@kaitlyn__L Ай бұрын

@ honestly I just never noticed because I usually _do_ watch in the evening lmao

@stroke_of_luck Ай бұрын

It opened here at 4:30

@mikeherr8427 Ай бұрын

It IS evening somewhere.

@TheInselaffen Ай бұрын

Good Noon. - Chesssimp.

@phaasch Ай бұрын

11:55 "... Places like Beddington Lane..." That's really cracked me up!

@partypoppers1988 Ай бұрын

0:06 Good afternoon! 😌

@johnspurgeon9083 Ай бұрын

The travelling bed must be the best footage of a station ever!

@JuniperBoy Ай бұрын

I used to work just over the road from this and it's still my closest tram stop. Plus it's just a few metres away from a rather good Sri Lankan restaurant I go to semi-regularly.

@infocuslearning Ай бұрын

There used to be a short section of track from the Surrey Iron Railway in the grounds of Wallington Library.

@kgbgb3663 Ай бұрын

Ah, I misread your comment for a moment as meaning that there was a branch of the SIR reaching the current location of Wallington Library. Which there almost was. But it stopped about a mile short, roughly at the southern end of Sutton Business Centre.

@davidfarley5829 Ай бұрын

Just made the same comment! Used to love Wallington Library when I was a kid!

@infocuslearning Ай бұрын

@@kgbgb3663 I actually thought so, at the time (i.e. the track was still sitting where it once had been). I also remember seeing something about Stephenson's Rocket on the sign next to it and thought the railway was steam powered. Either it wasn't explained very well or I didn't read the sign properly. I was a child at the time, though!

@iancrane1188 Ай бұрын

After this video, I can't help imagining dancing walls.

@Blade_Daddy Ай бұрын

Love the bed😂😂

@robertwilloughby8050 Ай бұрын

Jago, Raunds train station was nearly 2 miles away from Raunds. If you're friends with Jon Jefferson, he might be able to tell you about it.

@gryff8400 Ай бұрын

Long Buckby station (also Northamptonshire county) is now at the edge of the expanded village, but was only on the hill "next to near the village" until then..heckuva hike from the village to the train.

@nickbarber2080 Ай бұрын

A shame you didn't have archive pictures of the attractive buildings at both Morden Rd and especially Beddington Lane...as a teen in the late 70s I found this line an attractive,almost rural,backwater in suburban S London...

@Purplegman123 Ай бұрын

Awesome video, and btw, heres a suggestion Every train in the uk ranked based on their design and how useful they are, though if you find that will take too long then do a ranking for the london underground trains in terms of design, though it would have to be based on the look of the trains face since all of them kinda look the same with the red and white pattern. (Optional though.) Keep up the good work!

@watchmakersp9935 Ай бұрын

I am local. Ironically the station building/house was much larger than the one at Mitcham (seen old photos).Also the Morden Road bridge nearby was lowered over old the Wimbledon to Merton Abbey freightline (which closed around 1975) sometime in 1990s i think; a walkway is now at far end of the park. Enjoyed video.

@Wildcard71 Ай бұрын

When it was an ordinary rail line, next station towards West Croydon was Mitcham.

@edwardhackett-jones8126 Ай бұрын

A familiar (to me) station misnomer is Wickham Market station, which is easily 2 miles from Wickham Market in a village called Campsea Ashe.

@highpath4776 Ай бұрын

pedant note "grouping of most of britains main railways" ( Col Stephens lines even at full guage seemed to get missed, the met and underground group were excluded ( any tubes not part of underground group in 1923? ) Glasgow Subway , most tramways under a Light Railway order construction (cannot recall what happened to the Dearne District Light Railway) , lines owned by most "private owners" likewise didnt get on the list/s

@highpath4776 Ай бұрын

I recall a milk train running on the line heading towards Wimbledon. this was in the days of the connection to sutton line at Mitcham Junction

@mikeysoft7 Ай бұрын

Yes, used the station many times when it was a railway. Kodak's London laboratories and Kodachrome processing, the only lab in the UK, we're only a few minutes walk away.

@NeilSpencer-t7u Ай бұрын

Optimistic interchange between South Wimbledon and Morden Road, or the other direction, especially if you have been to Ampere Way.

@Welshy1717 Ай бұрын

Love these, I will be doing a few more adventures south of London next year, to ride these.

@Jimyjames73 Ай бұрын

Hey Jago - It looks like quite a 'Morden' Tram Line!!! 😉 Also I like your Title "...Morden Meets the Eye"!!! Very Good @ 11:54 - I like your "Bed Footage" - very funny!!! 😄🙂🚂🚂🚂

@thanostheclub Ай бұрын

I once walked between Morden and Morden Road (eschewing South Wimbledon for petty reasons only known to my railway track atlas) and I can safely say it's one of the most boring things I've ever done. It just goes to show that there is, indeed, Morden meets the eye in most things.

@tantaf123 Ай бұрын

Jago never fails to please his fans!

@MichaelCampin Ай бұрын

Can you please do a video on Upminster and its history as it, I believe had a good yard and the London Transport, District Line used to go to Southend

@gobiwaq Ай бұрын

Morden a feeling

@des_smith7658 Ай бұрын

Boston had a hit with that

@robertwilloughby8050 Ай бұрын

I think I'm dreaming.

@MelanieRuck-dq5uo Ай бұрын

I had to watch a part of this video twice because I doubted my sanity on my first viewing. It involved a flying bed!

@highpath4776 Ай бұрын

Bus services via Morden Road had a quite bewildering history with near circular services as the area would have at times direct services to Sutton (Via Worcester Park and Raynes Park), to St Helier via Rose Hill, sometimes to Sutton - but via the indirect Woodstock . Sutton Common Road, Epsom , and of course Morden itself - mainly from Wimbledon , but not really from anywhere east of Colliers Wood (except for the more recent night services to Trafalgar Square via Elephant and Castle )

@ShedTV Ай бұрын

This is the only channel where I don't fast forward through the sponsorships.

@a11oge Ай бұрын

No media bias and you're getting the full story here from Jago. Makes me wonder which of today's branch lines could be converted to trams. Perhaps between Henley-on-Thames station and Twyford although this route can get very busy. Or, Maidenhead to Bourne End.

@rechnin Ай бұрын

I see the customary "Security Crows" are active and well at Morden!

@richardekers3025 Ай бұрын

A station only 30 minutes walk from the town it was named after? That sounds like bliss compared to "London" Southend airport, a full 85 minutes train journey from Trafalgar square!

@davidfarley5829 Ай бұрын

There used to be some rails from the Surrey Iron Railway in the gardens of Wallington Public Library. Not sure if they’re still there as I don’t live there anymore…

@infocuslearning Ай бұрын

If I recall correctly, one of the rails got stolen from the library and the Council eventually took the other one away and it now lives in the Borough museum at Carshalton Ponds.

@davidfarley5829 Ай бұрын

Good to hear something survived!