{"id":2935,"date":"2023-07-04T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/fastrack-or-slowtrack-part-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:29:09","slug":"fastrack-or-slowtrack-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/fastrack-or-slowtrack-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastrack Or Slowtrack – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Definitely Slowertrack!!<\/span><\/p>\n … includes some relics of wartime, but was basically rural, being the estate lands associated with Ingress Abbey.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … was demolished to make way for a new Thameside harbour which was never built. The present mansion was completed in 1833 and has had a chequered history.<\/p>\n It ceased to be a private house and the grounds have been developed for housing, but the property remains in place with an avenue leading down to the river bank,<\/p>\n Wikipedia says the property is now back in private hands but surrounded by modern housing.<\/p><\/div>\n The way in is via that bit of extra busway beyond Greenhithe station …<\/p>\n … and at the end, there is a bit of bus only road leading into the estate and viewed below from the opposite direction.<\/p>\n Just round the corner past the red bit there is another chunk of carriageway which lets buses out into London Road and thus on to Gravesend (seen below on the left).<\/p>\n Here is this philosophically complex junction but in aerial view.<\/p>\n Difficult to understand? Can’t quite see it? Don’t worry because the Fastrack web site map is wrong! A new road leads out of the far end of the Ingress Park estate and joins the A226 further east!<\/p>\n Google Streetview shows the road ready for the buses and paved for the bus stops.<\/p>\n Arriva’s network map shows things correctly, but simplified!<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n Helpfully, the very useful Google tells us the Thameslink and South Eastern Railway call at this Swanscombe bus stop ..<\/p>\n … as per the Google map …<\/p>\n … but the timetable shown above suggests that Fastrack B joins the trains at the bus shelter although Google does not mention the “B”.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n The stops are in the “V” between the two sets of station buildings.<\/p>\n There is plenty of car parking!<\/p>\n Arriva’s network map shows a wide variety of buses at Ebbsfleet stations …<\/p>\n