Swanley Junction - Large four track 4mm Southern electric DCC (30' x 12')

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It is great to hear people’s comments like they have walked across that lattice bridge!

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[Artless Bodger]

Have just discovered this thread, lovely work! My main recollection of Swanley was the Maidstone and Gillingham sections of trains combining or separating when we went to London for the day. Always straining to hear the announcements on the way home to ensure we'd got in the right part and never happy until we bore right and passed the paper products factory. We also used to look out for the coal tax pillar just to the west of the station. 

 

Most vivid memory was having been to a concert in London one Saturday evening and came out to find heavy snow falling, caught the last train down from Victoria, slow running and delay via the Catford loop (wind and snow battering the train at Nunhead), finally reaching Swanley to find the whole train was going to go to Gillingham, Maidstone passengers had to get out and wait, now around 2 am. Luckily the station staff were still around, lights on and the waiting room warm and dry. Hats off to the staff who had to clear points of snow to get a unit out of the stabling siding. Eventually reached Maidstone about 4 am, thick snow all about.