On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:06:12 +0000 (GMT), David H Wild
wrote:

In article , Mrs Redboots
wrote:
It actually left Victoria at 10.00 pm (9.00 pm during GMT). The up
train was booked to leave Dover at 7.20 am and run via Chatham and
Catford. More often than not it ran in its late path, 8.10 am from
Dover via Tonbridge and Kent House, arriving Victoria 9.38 am.
Commuters whose train was routed into platform 1 at Victoria used to
curse it, as they had to leave by the side gate into Hudson Place,
making for a long walk round to the Underground.

I thought that back then platform 1 was reserved for Channel trains, as
there were customs facilities?

The Night Ferry was the only train using the customs facilities - certainly
when I worked at Victoria in 1963.

I got ticked off by a policeman at Victoria one evening in 1967 for
checking the loco number on the up Golden Arrow after its arrival ( I
had to dodge around the Customs barrier to do it - E50XX), so I don't
think that's correct, sorry.




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Regards

Mike

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