Trains across the Medway - 24 August, 2022

A look at trains around the Medway crossings at Rochester.

[@AndreiTupolev]

The Medway viaducts, as recently featured on Secrets of the Motorway

[@maimadha]

Great video

[@theimperialist2686]

Great railway video Boogies Trains.

[@deauvilledad07]

Fabulous video Mr Boogie, love the history lesson about the Bridges over the Medway. Well done 🤓

[@Andrewjg_89]

Epic shots of the Eurostar and Southeastern Highspeed trains passing by. Very nice.

[@underground1019]

That shot watching the train climb the steep gradient south of the Medway viaducts is quite something! What camera and focal length do you have?

[@BoogiesTrains]

Glad you enjoyed it. I use a Panasonic Lumix TZ90. It's small and light but has a good optical zoom plus some software zoom. I've no idea what settings I used for that shot. I have the camera on auto and just adjust the zoom to suit.

[@linesided]

Great footage and very true about more people being on the train that that big ugly mass of cars.

[@musicforaarre]

That's maximumly most excellent !! (pardon the bad grammar; I'm not supposed to use two superlatives ! ) I took a long time to follow step by step by switching back and forth every minute to/from Google Map Satellite. It was an extremely excellent tutorial, and gave me a very good oversight of the area. I still have to work on the alignments a bit of the two railways between Rochester Bridge and old Rochester Station. Am I right; there must have been a crossing of the competitors just west of the Rochester Bridge ?? When I get back, I'll dissect it a bit further. I gather that the competing (not cooperating ) idiots had four tracks side by side between these two spots ? I'll be back in a bit. Aarre Peltomaa

[@BoogiesTrains]

If you go to the website of the National Library of Scotland you can navigate to images of old maps and get a side by side view of the old and current situation. It is most informative.

[@BoogiesTrains]

maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15.4&lat=51.39196&lon=0.50412&layers=6&right=ESRIWorld

[@pacificelectric1955]

I thought Medway was a famous naval battle in the Pacific ocean…😃😃😃😃

[@BoogiesTrains]

That's Midway.

[@pacificelectric1955]

@@BoogiesTrains Yes i know, but I never miss an opportunity to make dumb comments! Anyway the whole area is quite interesting and I enjoyed the sight of the Eurostar on HS1.

[@mr8I7]

There is a Russian/Soviet submarine in the Medway though...