A very very windy session spent at Westenhanger on the South Eastern Mainline where we see services purely from South Eastern. Sadly due to unannounced and immediate strike action taken by the French staff at EuroTunnel it meant that no Eurostar services were operating during my stay.
Westenhanger was opened in 1844.
The station became a junction station in 1864 when the South Eastern Railway opened its line from Sandgate, however right from the word go there was trouble as it was thought to have been inconveniently placed and for a long time subject to talk about getting demolished and having a new station built elsewhere.
British Rail wanted to close the station in 1969 was eventually decided against.
I will come back here one day and hopefully Eurostar will be running without the French screwing everything up which they seem to be doing a lot lately.
My next film will be my final film of the year with my annual visit to Clapham Junction.
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