Trains at: Rochester - 24 August, 2022

[@Olivers_RailAdventures]

This is a very nice and well put together video, thank you!

[@buzzukfiftythree]

Rochester and Chatham were my local stations for the first 50 years of my life. So many changes. There used to be some goods yards on the former Chatham Central route. You could also get a semi fast Charing X service stopping only at Stroud, Gravesend, Dartford, Woolwich Arsenal, London Bridge and Waterloo East. That disappeared decades ago. Enjoyable video thanks.

[@theimperialist2686]

Great railway video Boogies Trains

[@markm-1976]

great video, I enjoyed it. I remember going to Rochester by train back in 2018 and it was the time of the Beast from the East snow storm in March that year. The only trains running to Rochester during the storm were the Southeastern High Speed Javelins, nothing from Victoria or London Bridge / Cannon Street. It was a real quick journey from St Pancras out to Rochester and back and that was my first time on part of HS1. I have only travelled on the Eurostar pre HS1 days. Great video capture of the trains snaking into and out of Rochchester Station.

[@BoogiesTrains]

Thank you

[@musicforaarre]

The Track Layout at Charing (Squeeling) Cross on the below referenced map even shows dead end bumpers, and slip switches also !! It is a gold mine of mapping. I better go easy on this; I have to sleep tonight too. Aarre Peltomaa

[@maimadha]

Great video.

[@deauvilledad07]

Another great video Mr Boogie. It's not a comfortable ride on some of the thameslink services as the seats are a little hard, can't imagine what 2 and a half ride feels like. Well done 🤓 stay safe

[@Andrewjg_89]

The new Rochester railway station is very nice, modern and clean. But I do miss the old Rochester railway station.

[@geoffbarry9540]

Interesting you mention how many stops The Luton Thameslink will make before it even gets to St Pancras. I think that's always been the great misconception about Thameslink (although I'm not suggesting you share it). People have ever mistakenly viewed it as a high speed though route from south to north of the Thames whereas in fact, in Southern territory especially, it simply took over operation of a range of slow local services, together with their inherent problems of peak hour overcrowding and the vagaries of being part of a complex timetable, overlaid with the additional risks and shortcomings of trying to maintain their place in the northern timetables. For me the miracle of Thameslink, notwithstanding its ongoing problems in achieving its desired intensity and variety of services, is that it's actually succeeded at all to the extent that it has thus far...

[@BoogiesTrains]

Particularly annoying from my point of view is that the Sevenoaks service terminates at Blackfriars. Bromley desperately needs a faster service to Farringdon now that the Elizabeth Line is open. Bromley to Heathrow is a pain and will remain so if the journey has to be via Victoria.

[@scienceboy3729]

Going on Thameslink is alright if you want to go somewhere more local i.e. Gravesend but to go to London it's much faster to get the Southeastern

[@musicforaarre]

Awesome, for the 3rd time in the area; It looks like you now have 3 Medway area videos. I am embarrassed to admit that I will still have to do my in depth research of the area until the winter. I really, really feel, that if I was to live in the Greater London area for the better part of a year, that then this area seems to read as correct for me. That's years off. Would it be too difficult to do a history map of the area showing all of the changes ? I am going to do that in the winter. For some reason, I find your videos less intellectually taxing than Jago Hazzard's videos. You are both masters, but yours is less tiring after a long day for some subtle reason or other. I do say that I like your videography better, especially the long distance shots that make something that is half a kilometer away look like it is right in front of one's self; those shots are priceless to me. They are expansive, and make me feel like a big spiritual being, instead of being a shadow of myself in a 65 year old meat body. We are big beings, but we shrink our viewpoints into little meat bodies !!! Aarre Peltomaa

[@BoogiesTrains]

Hi Aarre. I did all the filming on the same day. Really enjoyed the day out. Strood and Rochester are only 10 minutes walk from each other but I had my e-bike with me so that I could cycle out to the high speed line. For a map, you could look at Carto Metro. I don't think there is a version that goes out as far as this however. Alternatively you can look at the National Library of Scotland maps pages. There is a side by side facility that lets you see the current Google Earth next to an old map. I use it regularly. I'll try to put up a link. I don't routinely include things like that in the videos because KZbin are quite hot on copyright enforcement. I watch some of Jago Hazzard's videos. They are always interesting, but they do require you to be fully engaged with the material.

[@BoogiesTrains]

maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15.141595610942682&lat=51.39421&lon=0.50238&layers=170&right=ESRIWorld

[@musicforaarre]

@@BoogiesTrains Wowwww !! Thank you so much for the gift. That is astounding how I could see an exact spot and compare it to now. You are amazing to be able to find out how to do that. I'm surpised at how much reclaimed land from landfill their was in the Medway estuary. And just like here, the myriad railway sidings, spurs, and complexities have been hugely simplified. I wonder how Bricklayer's Arms would have looked. That's all been cleared out now. I assume that this mapping service is country wide ? I pasted this link into my maps folder, and also my London folder on my screen. This is wonderful. By the way, were the 'Cattle Pens' for 3rd class passengers ?? Or was that 4th class ? Don't mind my silliness. I remember when my parents and I wanted to visit Coyuca Lagoon north of Acapulco. After the bus on the main road, we asked someone for a ride; he was the local taxi, and refused regular patrons so that we could ride in the back of his pickup truck. That's how locals got to the Mercado in central Acapulco; in the back of his pickup truck ! The Lagoon was nothing to write home about, but I'm sure that it had crocodiles for friends. Aarre Peltomaa

[@philclennell]

Give me a nice Victorian brick-built station every day over these ghastly steel-and-glass monstrosities.