Trivia: Counties served only by electric trains

[Cricketer8for9]

Are there any counties where all the stations are normally only served by electric trains?

National Rail only, trains passing through but not stopping don’t count. Possible candidates Hertfordshire and West Sussex.

Ceremonial counties please

 

[hermit]

West Sussex has the GWR Bristol to Brighton trains, which are not electric.

 

[Iskra]

The Isle of Wight

 

[johnnychips]

Is the Isle of Wight a unitary authority or still Hampshire? (Disregarding the heritage line).

 

[Iskra]

Is the Isle of Wight a unitary authority or still Hampshire? (Disregarding the heritage line).

Google says it's a county.

 

[johnnychips]

@Iskra. Snap!

I wasn’t disagreeing with you our posts must have been identically timed!

 

[Iskra]

What diesel trains run in Kent? (Excuse my ignorance, railways of Kent are not my forte)

 

[urbophile]

Surrey?

 

[PHILIPE]

Not Hertfordshire either. Chiltern call at Rickmansworth

 

[MotCO]

Surrey?

Reading to Gatwick goes via Redhill, Surrey and I believe is a DMU.

 

[PHILIPE]

Reading to Gatwick goes via Redhill, Surrey and I believe is a DMU.

Correct

 

[civ-eng-jim]

What diesel trains run in Kent? (Excuse my ignorance, railways of Kent are not my forte)

The Marsh Link service from Ashford. Runs to Rye, Hastings and Eastbourne (Plus other stops in between)

Uckfield to Oxted too.

 

[Iskra]

The Marsh Link service from Ashford. Runs to Rye, Hastings and Eastbourne (Plus other stops in between)

Ah, okay, thank you.

 

[si404]

Is the Isle of Wight a unitary authority or still Hampshire? (Disregarding the heritage line).

All 'unitary authorities' (save the Berkshire 6) are counties. IoW also a separate Ceremonial County (the ones created in the 1990s after they realised what a mess they were making) to Hampshire.

I presume we are using Ceremonial Counties, or I can say "Medway, Southend on Sea, Thurrock".

City of London? I guess there's a few diesels out of Liverpool Street.

 

[Mag_seven]

Not Hertfordshire either. Chiltern call at Rickmansworth

Plus Watford Junction as the odd Avanti Voyager calls there.

 

[DelW]

Reading to Gatwick goes via Redhill, Surrey and I believe is a DMU.

Not to mention SWR's 159s to Salisbury and Exeter, stopping at Woking.

 

[MotCO]

When I first read the post, I thought that there would be loads of electric-only counties. I think we are now struggling to find one.

 

[Mag_seven]

I guess there's a few diesels out of Liverpool Street.

You guess wrong!

 

[Devonman2014]

Any in Scotland ??

 

[civ-eng-jim]

Any in Scotland ??

I expect across the central belt as there are a lot of little counties.

 

[hermit]

i can’t think of any non-electrics in Essex.....

 

[Mag_seven]

Any in Scotland ??

Probably Clackmannanshire (Alloa).

 

[Cricketer8for9]

Thanks all. I was quite hopeful, but my own initial candidate of Essex I expunged from the putative list because of Stansted Airport.

 

[Cricketer8for9]

Ceremonial counties please.

 

[NotATrainspott]

West Lothian. Only served by Glasgow-to-Edinburgh trains (via all 4.5 available routes) and all of them are electrified. The only non-electrified E-G services are the CrossCountry ones and they only call at Motherwell.

Also East Dunbartonshire, served by E&G and North Clyde electrics. And North Lanarkshire, and Inverclyde, and North Ayrshire. There are quite large chunks of the Central Belt with only electric passenger services now that EGIP is done.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Are there still true DMUs in Suffolk or is it all Stadlers now? They may be running on diesel but that isn't their fault!

 

[PeterC]

Thanks all. I was quite hopeful, but my own initial candidate of Essex I expunged from the putative list because of Stansted Airport.

and the Marks Tey branch. I don't know if there are any diesels from Harwich any more.

 

[NoMorePacers]

What diesel trains run in Kent? (Excuse my ignorance, railways of Kent are not my forte)

Eastbourne - Ashford services.

 

[BigB]

West Lothian. Only served by Glasgow-to-Edinburgh trains (via all 4.5 available routes) and all of them are electrified. The only non-electrified E-G services are the CrossCountry ones and they only call at Motherwell.

Also East Dunbartonshire, served by E&G and North Clyde electrics. And North Lanarkshire, and Inverclyde, and North Ayrshire. There are quite large chunks of the Central Belt with only electric passenger services now that EGIP is done.

West Lothian - no, there is a Kirkcaldy - Glasgow in the morning and a Glasgow - Markinch in the evening which call at Linlithgow (ex county town of West Lothian) which are both class 170 turns

 

[Mojo]

So I guess the answer is that there aren't any in England aside from Isle of Wight?

Maybe dividing by Local authorities (upper tier or unitary authority) may give an answer.