Trains at: Clapham Junction, BML/SWML, 17/04/21
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 เม.ย. 2021
- An excellent afternoon session spent at Clapham Junction on the South Western Mainline and Brighton Mainline where we see countless services from South Western Railway, Southern, Gatwick Express, London Overground and freight from Freightliner. So completely ignore everything I said in my introduction!!
The Freightliner 66 was heading from Hoo Junction to Wokingham to drop off new sleepers for the line running up to Reading where the line had been closed for the weekend from Wokingham to Reading to allow for engineering work to take place.
I thought I would give Clapham a try whilst the nation is in the slow process of coming out of the national lockdown to see how what is usually an insanely busy railway station is coping, especially as the TOC's aren't running back to a full timetable yet.
I also came here because my initial station that I wanted to go to wasn't accessible to me on this day as no trains were calling there.
There's a rich and varied history to come with this station and even though there were lines passing through the site there wasn't a physical station here for a good few years. Before the railway reached Clapham the area was rural and oddly enough specialised in Lavender. Hence why you have Lavender Hill in the area. In 1838 the London and Southampton Railway became the London and South Western Railway which then proceeded to open a line from Nine Elms to Woking. That was the first railway line through the area. The next line to operate was the line from Nine Elms to Richmond which opened in 1846. Two years later Waterloo was opened which then made Nine Elms redundant. In 1860 the line to Victoria was opened and three years later Clapham Junction was opened and was done as a joint venture between the London and South Western Railway, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the West London Extension Railway as an interchange for all of their lines.
When the station was built much of the Battersea area was heavily industrial and the Clapham area was fashionable (insert joke here) this actually worked in the railway companies favour as they all wanted to try and get the more upper and middle class people from the surrounding areas to come to Clapham. Which did work for a while, unfortunately there was a negative that was to come with all this. Because of the fact that the Battersea area was heavily industrial it meant that a lot of under privileged people at the time came into the area for work. Because of this the local population sky rocketed and went through the roof. In 1840 the local population was just touching 6000 and by the time 1910 decided to say hello the population was knocking on the door of 168,000. The area was full of slums which was eventually replaced with council housing by 1975. And they say the area has improved...........
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My next rush hour film will come from Leighton Buzzard.
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Glad to see you uploading regularly again love the commentary and very enjoyable as well
Very nice video 👍
Another great video - the station looks almost tranquil, at least for Clapham Junction's standards!
Great video Tornado922
South Western Railway are replacing the Class 455 and Class 456 with the Class 701 Arterios which are coming into service from the end of this year. And the Class 707 Desiro City are to be cascaded to Southeastern. With the Class 455 & Class 456 to be scrapped and some Class 455s could go to Southern.
I went on a South western rail 450 from Reading to Bracknell
Awesome! I was making a class 465 in SWT livery on Train Sim World 2 lol what a coincidence
Very good video Jarred and it's good that SWR are keeping the 458's as I also think they are amazing
Nice mixture of south western railways southern railways and London overground and a freightliner 66
I like the 707's and 458's
Another intriguing and enjoyable video. Never been to Clapham Junction, given the current situation I can't see me getting there either.
Keep up the great work and stay safe young fella
Like the video very much .Lots of detail .Hope there more to come.
Yes 378232’s Nameplate and livery are on Spotlog
Great video great to see you out and about again
Southern are using Gatwick Express train at the moment. Gatwick Express are not operating due to upgrade works at Gatwick Airport.
Fantastic video! I really enjoyed this :)
Yay! You Are Back At Clapham Junction!!
Brilliant railway video again Tornado922. Got a good range of trains in Clapham Junction.
Man it will be strange seeing the 458s in the SWR livery. Great video Jared. looking forward to Eastleigh and Southampton
I would love to go this station one day!
This video really is relaxing and enjoyable
Glad you could go back to Clapham Junction
Brilliant video
Hi mate, another fantastic vedeio!
The engineers train hauling sleepers might be going to Wokingham (4 stops up from Reading towards London Waterloo, Guildford, Redhill, and Gatwick Airport), as there are replacing the sleepers over many weekends between Wokingham and Reading
Great video.
Excellent train shots my friend, I see that you had a rush traffic with lot of opportunities to film nice videos😉🙂
Great video
Love Clapham junction good station
How you get those middle unit numbers amazes me. Was there yesterday and sometimes its impossible to see them. I in fact prefer it how it is now. At full capacity the place is just To busy !!
great vid i have to come here
Hi mate the last time I was at this station was 1984 still a great video mate stay safe and well mate goodbye for how clive in N Ireland
I’ve done some trains spotting at Clapham Junction a few weeks ago during the Easter holidays.
Were you allowed?
@@trainspotter930 yes
Oh ok
Other amazing video legend tornado
Also, southern are running a service 2 an hour to Brighton using the Gatwick Express liveries. Also, Southern uses the Gatwick Express liveries to Eastbourne/Ore and Littlehampton as well. Trains to Littlehampton are not dividing at Haywards Heath and the Ore trains are dividing at Eastbourne, not Haywards Heath.
Why Not Head To Clapham Junction Again During The Middle Of The Year In April Or May
Yet again another great video but are you wearing a face nappy if so why you're outside in the fresh air
OMG OMG OMG CLAPHAM JUNCTION OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!
Ah yes Clapham Junction, who doesn't love this station
@Exploring With Dark Dreamz I'd imagine it would be like that
Hi tornado you should come on the east coast mainland because there is a new Thameslink train arrived on the line
South Western Railway Are Running More Services To Help Social Distancing
Lovely Freight. And Please Go To Feltham Station For Trains. And More Clapham Y
Would love to see colchester and Witham Junction of coming and going.
tornado please do trains at Petersfield on the swml.
Yay could you do Bristol?
Fun fact the reason why some 455 carriges don't look the same as the others is because they are ex class 508 carrgies from the days before they were shorterned to 3 car sets
But how did you know anything to find of those trains is?
Where did you buy the transport fever 2 game from?
Southern are currently using the GX trains to keep them moving.
Yeah they're also running single GX units on the Brighton to Hastings route too.
Nice video :)
What did the station staff/etc say to you about filming there? When I went about 3 days later they claimed filming was banned even though I later rang NR and they said it was fine.
When you are at linslade where is the location you are spotting at? Can you give an exact postcode please?
is this the second time or third time you recorded here? lawl ecxsdee
So Gatwick Express are currently rather serving more as Brighton Express than actual Gatwick Express, one would assume.
Did You Film At The Weekend
Where Was Your Initial Station You Were Supposed To Be?
Should you know better see it.
Hey could you do a video in weymouth
2:40
Great video. Clapham Junction is a good busy but I don't think Covid 19 will be ending but we will find out. What about Micheldever is also a good station to go to.
10:08
What’s your next station
East Croydon Station or other next stop the stations.
Noice
Notice what?!
@@robeycleaverland2155 i spelt nice wrong
I’m annoyed at myself because I would’ve went Clapham Junction that day but my laziness took over
To keep Gatwick express fleet running southern are using them on some of them on their services also great northern will be using them when the class 365 are taken out of service this is until replacement for the 365 are found
You’d think the Greater Anglia 379s would be a ready made replacement for the 365s if that’s what Great Northern are looking for
Maybe Gatwick Airport Station is being upgraded to enable it to serve LNER Azumas, since they’re longer than even the 12-coach Thameslink 700s.
You Wanted To Go To Queenstown Road Battersea. But No Trains Calling There Means You Go To Clapham Junction.
Don't Go To Queenstown Road. Go To Clapham Junction!
Actually, GX still isnt running, Southern is just borrowing their trains
That's true, because Gatwick Express wasn't running cause of the Covid having problems