Closed Stations Journey quiz

[A Challenge]

Wincanton

 

[Calthrop]

Cole

 

[A Challenge]

Evercreech Junction

 

[Calthrop]

Pylle

 

[A Challenge]

West Pennard

 

[Calthrop]

Glastonbury & Street

 

[A Challenge]

Ashcott

 

[Whistler40145]

Shapwick

 

[A Challenge]

Edington Burtle

 

[Calthrop]

Cossington

 

[A Challenge]

Bawdrip Halt

 

[Whistler40145]

Bridgewater North

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 862 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Leicester West Bridge
It follows the line of the Leicester and Swannington Railway...via the Bagworth loop line...note 1st and 2nd stations
It then follows the line of the MR Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line...via the Woodville loop line
It then follows the line of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the LNWR Birmingham to Rugby Line
It then follows the line of the LNWR Rugby to Leamington Line
It then follows the line of the LNWR Leamington to Coventry Line
It then follows the line of the LNWR Coventry to Birmingham Line...link line only, no closed stations
It then follows the line of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway
It then follows the line of the Grand Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the LNWR Stafford to Shrewsbury Line
It then follows the line of the Wellington and Drayton Railway
It then follows the line of the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway
It then follows the line of the Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway
It then follows the line of the NSR Crewe to Derby Line
The journey ends at the closed station of Cliffe Vale Halt

The first closed station on this journey is Leicester West Bridge

 

[Calthrop]

Glenfield

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ratby

 

[Calthrop]

Desford (2nd station)

 

[Whistler40145]

Merry Lees

 

[A Challenge]

Thornton (Stag & Castle)

 

[DerekC]

Bagworth & Ellistown (noting that this was the second Bagworth station, 1849 - 1964, the first being on the old incline line which the loop line avoids)

 

[Whistler40145]

Bardon Hill

 

[DerekC]

Coalville Town

 

[Whistler40145]

Swannington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

INFORMATION

After Desford (2nd station), we would have passed through the following closed stations in this order:-

Desford (1st station)

Merry Lees (1st station)

Merry Lees (2nd station)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swannington

Ashby de la Zouch

 

[Whistler40145]

Moira

 

[A Challenge]

Gresley?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gresley?

Not so, as the journey preamble stated on this line we are on....."via the Woodville loop line"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moira

Woodville

 

[Calthrop]

Swadlincote

 

[Ash Bridge]

Branston