Just chilling at sittingbourne station at 10:40 and its all going on. 375s 395s 465s a 66 pulls into sittingbourne sidings, dumps its wagons then does a run around with the rhtt blasting thru in-between. Nice work dtg.
Nice, but I shudder at the thought of being stranded in Sittingbourne. Like Slough or Milton Keynes it's one of those places that are best appreciated from a window seat.
It was virtual chilling on tsw. Sittingbourne ain't that bad, as long as you stay away from platform 3.
Sittingbourne is a hell hole backwater where the people who've lived there for multiple generations have webbed feet and four nostrils... Oh, sorry, that's Sheerness... Sittingbourne isn't all that bad, but there's literally nothing going for the town itself as it stands. They are trying to do up the town centre but it's all based on high street footfall which we just don't have now, so I do wonder what'll happen to the place. Then again I live in Gillingham (next major town over) and that town's drying up too. I shudder to think what will happen if Chatham is all that's left
I never venture that far from the station, the station carpark probably being the furthest. Stations ok though. Luckily you're confined to the station.
LOL at the comments above, I was actually thinking about travelling that route in real life next year as being a Northerner I don't tend to get down South much and when I do I generally branch off to East Anglia from London. Rochester seems a nice place from what I've seen on TV in the past or has that declined (or did they only show the good bits)
Rochester is a nice town. Its like any other place you have never been to, something new, you got the castle. Historic town and chatham dockyard not far away. Dover with its castle and white cliffs at the end of the line.
Classed as some of the most deprived areas in Britain. Sheerness really is the end of the line, I call it the a hole of England. The poor guy that collects tickets on the sheerness branch line is much safer locked in the drivers cab.
Nothing really wrong with Sittingbourne or Milton Keynes - both are essentially London commuter towns and I lived in both of them many moons ago, can't remember much of either of them, which I suppose tells you all you need to know...
As with many things British this is kind of a running joke. No matter where you are or live they will have somewhere which is supposed to be a bit downtrodden, or where the people are less than desirable. Unfortunately in the UK there are many places which are small towns with little to nothing happening in them either because they no longer have industry or are just "in the middle of a nowhere, but almost close to a bigger somewhere" and in the case of Sittingbourne it's almost the first medium sized place of note out of London on the North of Kent. So people who have lived closer to London tend to look at it with a bit of scorn because all the posh people (ie those with any money) either live way further out (bigger houses, lots of land) or further into London (more expensive, better postcodes) As for Sheerness, it's a town out on an island with one way in and one way out... The joke is that cousins get "very friendly" in the colder months, leading to some people who can read the labels on the back of their clothing without needing to turn their head around. Of course it's all a form of nonsense banter that borders on bullying, but that's the British for you. When I was a kid I lived in Cardiff and much the same was said about those from Newport or Swansea, so it's definitely a regional thing
There are some nice places for a one day visit on the rail lines through Kent. Rochester has an interesting Castle and Cathedral (if both a bit small compared to others). There's the russian submarine in the Medway (depicted in game) and of course DTG are at Chatham docks so you could go give their door a good kick Then there's the North coast of Kent which is flat but nice, Thanet (Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Margate) which all have nice beaches or ports and then Dover with the port and castle, Folkestone with a nice beach and then the South Kent coast with nuclear flask trains, the Hastings line, and the beginning of the ECW to Brighton And of course you can always head to Ashford and take the fastest regular train service in the UK up HS1
Haven’t strayed far from the station at Faversham but it seems quite nice and there’s a decent pub across the road. Agreed that Rochester is nice too.
Faversham is worth a visit as is it's brewery. Untouched by the war it retains an eclectic collection of architectural styles and inhabitants.
