Swanley Junction - My Local Abandoned Station! | Another Station, Another Mile Lockdown Special

[@ChrisHolloway768]

Great video! As someone who lives at SMY and worked at the Asda in Swanley until recently and now for the railways I love some railway knowledge like this!

[@adrianmorgan1101]

I remember going to the (now demolished) Station Master’s house circa 1970. The Station Master’s wife used to look after us kids after school. Nice lady.

[@Geffo555]

I was told that the station is again on the move, coming down closer to the town centre. Not sure how they'd incorporate the Sevenoaks branch, but apparently Swanley has a lot of development planned for the next five years.

[@stuarthall6631]

I have always wondered why there was never a station at Swanley Village. The line passes very close by it and many much smaller communities had stations at one time.

[@gabri_maybe]

I discovered your channel some weeks ago,and I gotta say,I was shocked by the quality and the subscriber count,you have one of the best intros I've ever seen!

[@lordbrit4630]

Great video mate! Keep em up :)

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Hey thank you!! :)

[@anonarchist1936]

Love it! Make sure you post your future episodes in UKNP as well!

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Thank you!! Will do :)

[@bostonrailfan2427]

had the same thing happen to me thrice: my local line had a few local stations closed that you’d never realize were there unless you looked, two survived partly intact and a third only in memory of a few…all only discovered because of reading about other stations nearby!

[@paulmc0308]

I live in Horton Kirby and used to catch the train from Farningham Road through Swanley to Victoria and back every day. I knew about Swanley Junction station, and Station Road with its choice of take-aways. But I've never gone looking for the remains of the station. Very interesting, thank you. Someone else mentioned the coal obelisk just outside Swanley station - that would be interesting to know a bit more about. Also, just past Farningham Road Station was a halt on the down line only, for the Farningham home for boys.

[@lawrence18uk]

Nice to see a mention of the Home for Boys...

[@mikegillard7283]

You found the “thing”. Sorted and well done.

[@davidghewitt73]

Stumbled onto your vids while down a youtube rabbit hole - and i'm glad i did! Subscribed :) . Oh - BTW - nice T Shirt chap! #GO! #PSB #InformEducateAndEntertain :)

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Thank you! And YES, I LOVE PSB ^_^

[@davidghewitt73]

@@HeyItsAJOmega I was lucky enough to see them live at the Albert Hall last July (2019) during the Proms - when they played the whole of the 'Race For Space'. Bloody amazing! Keep doing what you're doing mate - looking forward to new content soon! #PositiveThoughts :)

[@CoxallK]

New subscriber here. Loving these videos mate. Keep up the good work and keep them coming. 👍🏽

[@jonathanberry686]

Awesome content man, can’t believe it took KZbin so long to recommend your channel!

[@markselby7677]

I'm a former southeastern driver I was told about the former Swanley Junction when route learning. Thought you might have mentioned in passing the impressive coal marker obelisk just to the west of the station. Maybe that's a bit off topic though...

[@MossdaleNGaugeRailway]

Chislehurst station has also moved a bit from where it started from

[@kevelliott]

No sooner do you complete the quest of Swanley Junction station than you throw up another - the vanished Rochester Bridge station (which I didn't know about till now) is on MY doorstep in Strood! And there's another really nice railway-themed micropub here - the 1050 from Victoria!

[@dodgydruid]

As a young young lad my father used to take me and my brother down to the top of Cuxton down and we would watch them working on the old railway bridge making it into the road bridge of today. In these later years, they are kicking themselves about losing the second railbridge as with it still in use today, the plan was a second less harsh chord coming up to it from the Strood-Cuxton line so now they are thinking of running a line around the Higham hill and across the Medway there or coming in a straight line from Higham tunnel portal across the medway to pick up to Rochester, some have even suggested using the old naval line for the high speed bypassing.

[@TheEastlondonbus]

Excellent and informative video

[@batman51]

You perhaps omitted to say that Swanley was rebuilt in 1959 to accommodate 2 extra tracks. Another local station you may wish to visit is Lullingstone, just south of Eynsford Tunnel. Now that is hard to find!

[@ericprice3225]

I noticed what looked like abandoned platforms there only this weekend and wondered if it had been a station and now I know. Thank you!

[@batman51]

@@ericprice3225 Planned to have a new development but got stopped by the War and then the Green Belt, so never happened.

[@twistedcheese1]

You should explore the Fleetwood branch line. There is so much to see its crazy. Hopefully it will reopen soon

[@grey8biker]

The bus garage in Swanley had the code 'SJ' until it closed in 1989 with buses running from it carrying the 'SJ' code.

[@trevorpett4721]

what about lullingstone station between swanley and eynsford

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Honestly, I'd never even heard of it, but I've checked it out now you mention it - and wow! Definitely will have to investigate this :)

[@trevorpett4721]

@@HeyItsAJOmega hi when i worked a eynsford station in the 1970s there was still paper working relating to lullingstone station ie inventory of things like fire extinguishers and some other paper work the station was just outside eynsford tunnel on the eynsford side if i can be of more assitance dont hesitate to ask

[@markselby7677]

Well worth researching the history of the former Lullingstone Station!

[@xenon53827]

the platforms and the entrance road are still there. Passed through it often!

[@douglasfleetney5031]

@@HeyItsAJOmega I'm not certain that Lullingstone was ever actually opened. I believe it was built as a 'speculation' station, much like most of Metroland, for a development that was put paid to by WW2, again much like the Metropolitan extension north of Edgware(?). All down to the Green Belt act. I have watched a cab ride of the Sevenoaks line and the remains are easily seen from there but have never found them at ground level, not that I've looked that close in the first place..... Only found your Videos today, good work, don't stop. Thanks.

[@SirKenchalot]

I thought you'd mention that Eurostar used to run through there until 2007.

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Good point! But that would be more focused on the current Swanley station, and this is dealing more with the old Swanley Junction station. :)

[@CJT80]

have you visited the Miniature Railway at Swanley Park?

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

The Swanley New Barn Railway? I have! I live very close to it :)

[@CJT80]

@@HeyItsAJOmega that's the one... I have prev been a member as I don't live all that far from Swanley. I use the ASDA quite a bit.

[@Andrewjg_89]

People say that Swanley is in Kent whilst others say that it’s in Greater London. Is Swanley technically in Kent. And also is close to the M25 London Orbital Motorway, A20 and M20. Anyways interesting video AJ. Andrew G.

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

It is technically in Kent! Just about - it's literally right next to the boundary for Greater London, but it's on the Kent side xD

[@Andrewjg_89]

AJCantFail I totally agree. I always thought that Swanley is in Kent which it is. It’s only few miles from the London boundary and isn’t that far from Dartford, Bromley, Croydon, Caterham and other places on the London boundary with Kent and Surrey.

[@markselby7677]

Swanley is in Kent, however it's also within the M25 which may give rise to some confusion. Ticket wise it's a bit of an anomaly along with Dartford in that both outside zone 6 of the travel card area yet (London) pensioners freedom passes are valid to both for some strange reason.

[@ronniebon7163]

@@markselby7677 I think that TFL must have decided that the surrounding areas are largely surrounded by pensioners?

[@CJT80]

@@markselby7677 the TfL Zones have been moved around a lot over the years. Darford (being an "outer London" commuter belt), wanted access to cheaper fares, and I beleive a number of people campaigned over the years to be part of the TC Zones... eventually their wish was granted.

[@CammieRacing]

There was me thinking Swanley was purely a London overflow town.

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Me too, having lived here over two decades xD

[@annescholey6546]

With loads of vape shops

[@ThetrainguyUK]

Oh that means you live like a few milles away from me lol. Might see you on a train someday.

[@aizenosaimafidon1119]

Right next to my house haha

[@C1dagoat491]

hi mate enjoyed the vid. What is your intro music i like it a lot

[@annescholey6546]

One minute you're in suburbia next you're out in the green belt. Luckily around Swanley to Otford fears of being swamped by executive overpriced shoe boxes has gone unfounded.

[@DJCox95]

Very interesting video - keep up the good work!

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Thank you ^_^

[@joncrawford3485]

I've spent some time searching for the lost railways around my neck of the woods - northeast Suffolk - and road names are a big clue where stations and the now not-so-permanent-way used to be. There's Station Road of course, but then there's also "Beeching Av.", "Beeching Dr.", "Beeching the moron", etc, etc Example - here's north Lowestoft, the old railway route is centre left from the bottom, Station Road is centre right, and Beeching Drive is just above that :) www.google.com/maps/place/Lowestoft/@52.4900631,1.7511491,337m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47da032d0bb1a84d:0xa65c41c1d8577798!8m2!3d52.481138!4d1.753449

[@asprinwizard]

Love the colour-grading on this. What camera/colour profile/LUT are you using here?

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Thank you! It's my regular G7X Mk2 camera, plus some colour grading edits in DaVinci Resolve which I was trying out for this video. I mostly use Adobe Premiere Pro though. Just tweak some of the colour grading (shadows, midtones, highlights etc) to give it more of an old 80s Super 8 footage look. :)

[@bobwood856]

"Railway station", yes, thank you! NOT "train station". You have a new fan, just for that!

[@gymnasiast90]

The background music during the whiteboard segment is too loud, really. I can barely follow the explanation there. Could you turn it down in future videos? Otherwise: nice video.

[@beachyhh]

Rewrite Wikipedia?! ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanley_railway_station

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Huh? xD

[@beachyhh]

@@HeyItsAJOmega With the reason for the change of the location :)

[@CJT80]

@@beachyhh it doesn't state the reason, it just mention's the accident... it's written in a way you could presume that was the reason for the move.

[@michaeldwyer3352]

Far too wordy - ten minutes for a story that can be told in three. You need an editor. Cheers