Ever been to Chessington South station? It seems like a fairly innocuous branch line terminus station, located in the peaceful suburbs of South West London. But look a little closer, and a fascinating story begins to emerge – of a station frozen in time, a ghost platform that’s never seen a passenger in its life, and tracks that continue on to seemingly nowhere! Let’s take a trip to the fascinating little station at Chessington South ^_^
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Brilliant video, I saw this station on maps and noticed a short stretch of track to the south of it marked and always wondered whether the line was meant to go further.
My home station. Great video, very informative.
Nice railway video
Have you not been to Rose Hill Marple, might be worth a little video and if you venture up that way you could do the one train a week from Stockport to Stalybridge
👍🏼 but take off the colour grade
brilliant video Chessington South looks like a nice station and i do like the class 455s that use the station awesome work
Another great video as the trains look as retro as the platform does
I like how when you say ghost platform around 5:00 there's a NR person in high vis at the back on said platform 😀
This was absolutely fascinating, thank you so much for sharing it! I love learning more about the stations around London & will have to visit the ghost platform one day ☺️
such a warm video! thank you
Just recently watched the Jago Hazzard video on this line which is an interesting companion piece to this video. Look forward to more vids like these 🙂
4:34 I think the original plan was for the platforms to be linked via Subway, and I believe some remnants of it still remain down there somewhere, but that would also explain why you couldn't find any way onto that platform, as a Subway is not as obvious as a footbridge and has all been sealed off anyway!
Great video! I've always found this branch fascinating so it's always nice when someone makes a nice little video like this about it!
I love the architecture of those platforms
Harlepool has one.
with those cement arches looks like it was bomb proof kinda
Hello AJ, your story telling and editing skills have greatly improved and is a excellent video. Keep it up
Nice video, Chessington South is one of those quirky stations, I think it GBRF or DB Cargo that operates the recent freight but makes you wonder what happened if it ended up at Leatherhead, would the whole line ended up closing or kept open?
You should check out Epsom Downs Station, it definitely fits into the lost category!
Quality mate.
Desperately finds way to link this to NCL
OK so SWR operate 707s to here sometimes
707s are from the same family of trains as the 717s that operate on the NCL
Could also use that some of the 455s that operate on the line have class 508 trailer cars inserted into them. The 508 is from the same family of trains as the 313 which used to operate on the NCL
wipes brow
Amazing work 👏
Used to go there every day as my school was there Fleetwood county sec school got the train from Chessington North one stop away now lazy was that,the coal depot was still there when I left in 1962
You should take a ride on the new South Western Railway Class 701 Arterios when they are up and running hopefully later this year. With the remaining Class 707s cascaded to Southeastern.
Nice!
Oh, that ended suddenly. I kind of hoped you might be going to show us a bit of the continuation…Curiousity whetted, I had a look at the 'Streetmap' Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 and indeed it goes on about 750m, petering out into a siding. Google Maps/Google Earth show a bit of the track south of Chessington South station until the trees cover it. But it is pretty clear that the unused 1939 prepared railtrack base extends 1.5km or so further to the B280 (Rushett Lane), now used by paths leading on to Ashstead Station. Was that to be the route? I thought it would have gone down by Rushetts Farm, alongside the A24 connecting up with a southward facing junction to the Leatherhead and Dorking line near Leatherhead Common (now built over by the M25 motoway).
You mentioned Northern Heights! It all comes back to the Northern City Line!
Excellent video and as you say an interesting little station. I've never been so may have to plan a trip next time I am nearby.
THat train would not be back for several hours, as they work a roster going to Woking, Guildford via Epsom, Chessington, and Guidford via Cobham in rotation.
It shows a remarkable lack of enterprise from SWT and now SWR, along with Chessington World of Advantures, that they never extended to line over the existing embankment to Chalky Lane, about half a mile further, which is 100 yards from the entranceto Chessington World of Adventures. Instead, visitors have to tramp along the busy A243 from Chessington South (or more likely they drive all the way) .
I have been fascinated by the station for some time. I was recently there when I was going to the theme park and I just loved the atmosphere.
In the final shot of your video that shows the train departing from the operating platform, if you look up you can see a blue wooden “door”. This was going to be the footbridge that would have gone over the tracks, linking the two platforms, enabling passengers to access the platform that never opened from the main station entrance / booking hall.
I think this is my new favourite channel 🚂
It’s been ages since I’ve watched one of your videos AJ, but honestly, they’ve only gotten better. This is a fantastic video, I can’t lie 🙂
Always love your videos. By any chance, could you bring back the awesome intro music of the earlier videos?
good job mate
could you maybe do a video on the Elizabeth Line Scene Trains On The Shenfeild Metro Are Running through to Paddington
It has been eight months since we last had a video from you, and I fear you may have alighted at a disused platform never to be seen or heard of again. Life is better with your videos than without and I look forward to seeing more arriving. Of course, actually finding any trains running to talk about might be a challenge…..
Not an aggressive comment in any way, but just a comment: Please don't get into the jump cuts so beloved of YouTubers in Retardistan (aka 'merrica). It doesn't appeal to me, and I suspect that applies to much of your audience. They have their uses, but don't get too embroiled. Your content is, as always, superb.
Will there be anymore another station another mile episodes? Been missing them
Hey AJ, hope all is well. Not seen anything from you lately
Excellent 😊