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Railway junction north of Petts Wood
The Victoria and Charing Cross lines diverge.
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 9 Apr 2011
0.02 miles
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Railway junction north of Petts Wood Station
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 9 May 2010
0.04 miles
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Bickley Junction
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 1 Jul 2017
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Building in Bickley Junction
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 29 Mar 2014
0.06 miles
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Railway junction north of Petts Wood
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 9 Apr 2011
0.08 miles
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Bickley Junction
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 8 May 2016
0.08 miles
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Victoria - Kent Coast express near Bickley Junction, 1950
View NW, towards London on the ex-SE&CR former London - Chatham - Ramsgate/Dover main line, where it runs under and has complex connections with the former SER London - Dover main line. The locomotive is Maunsell class V 'Schools' 4-4-0 No. 30918 'Hurstpierpoint', built 6/33, withdrawn 10/61. Note the ancient stock forming this Holiday Extra train.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Jul 1950
0.10 miles
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Kent Coast to Victoria express near Bickley Junction
View eastward, towards Swanley Junction - branch for Otford and Maistone East, Rochester and the Kent Coast resorts on the ex-LC&DR main line from London Victoria, at the spot where this main line runs under and interconnects with the ex-SER main line from the Channel Ports etc. via Ashford and Tonbridge to London (Charing Cross and Cannon Street). (In former days there was an ideal spot here accessible for watching traffic on both main lines and their connecting loops - immensely busy on a Summer Saturday). The train, no doubt from Ramsgate and Margate, is headed by a Bulleid Light Pacific still in SR livery, but with 'British Railways' on the tender: No. 34069 'Hawkinge', built 10/47 as No. 21C169, renumbered 6/48, withdrawn (unrebuilt) 11/63.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Jul 1950
0.10 miles
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Charing Cross - Deal express in Chislehurst - Bickley complex, 1950
View NW on a Summer Saturday, towards Chislehurst and London on the ex-SER main line where it crosses and intersects with the ex-LCDR main line from London Victoria via Chatham to the Kent Coast - an ideal spot for 'Train-Watching'. The locomotive is Bulleid 'West Country' 4-6-2 No. 34096 'Trevone' (built 11/49, rebuilt 4/61, withdrawn 4/67 but not preserved). It is blasting away from a signal-check with cylinder-cocks open.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Jul 1950
0.11 miles
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Kent Coast - Victoria relief express near Bickley Junction
View SE, towards Swanley Junction, Rochester etc., also Otford, Maidstone East etc. (See
Image] for further detail). Some of the holiday reliefs on Summer Saturdays were provided only with non-corridor stock; the locomotive is Maunsell 'King Arthur' 4-6-0 No. 30798 'Sir Hectimere' (built 6/26, withdrawn 6/62).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Jul 1950
0.11 miles