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D6130

D6130

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Currently on holiday in Sicily - not for the first time - and stations on which I have set foot for the first time over the past week include:

Catania Aeroporto - Fontana Rosso
Modica
Gela
Caltanissetta Centrale
Caltanissetta Xirbi
 
The exile

The exile

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Andy Pacer said:
I think you're right! An easy little Saturday outing, rare I get as many as 5 new ones in a single day now!
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Mine was anything but an easy outing (first train 05.45, arrival hopefully 20.58) but a success, despite the best attempts of a bunch of idiotic kids to get their legs sliced off by a passing train at Kings Heath. List to follow.
 
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DiddyKongRacin

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Lancashire
24 April 2026
Salwick
Moss Side
Kirkham and Wesham
Layton

25 April 2026 (first train 4:59am from Blackpool North > Manchester Piccadilly > Sheffield > Lincoln)
Lincoln
Retford (high and low level)
Doncaster
Scarborough
 
The exile

The exile

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Andy Pacer said:
I think you're right! An easy little Saturday outing, rare I get as many as 5 new ones in a single day now!
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Mine was anything but an easy outing (first train 05.45, arrival hopefully 20.58) but a success, despite the best attempts of a bunch of idiotic kids to get their legs sliced off by a passing train at Kings Heath. List to follow. Don’t know why this has posted twice!
 
The exile

The exile

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25 April 2026

Cannock
Rugeley Town
Hednesford
Willenhall
Darlaston
Pineapple Road
Moseley Village
Kings Heath

Total UK: 2722
 
Kite159

Kite159

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West of Andover
26/4:
Pineapple Road
Moseley Village
Kings Heath


Did they go overboard with the platform number signs?
 
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Kite159

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27/4:
Willenhall
Darlaston (complete with all of 10 cars in the car park!)

Willenhall makes far more sense than Darlaston, a station which would be more useful if that emergency exit at the Birmingham end of the Wolverhampton bound platform was opened up to allow anybody walking to the station from the town direction to avoid a dog-leg via the car park.

I was going to visit those two new tram stops, but the weather was far too nice to stay within the city centre
 
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The exile

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Kite159 said:
27/4:
Willenhall
Darlaston (complete with all of 10 cars in the car park!)

Willenhall makes far more sense than Darlaston, a station which would be more useful if that emergency exit at the Birmingham end of the Wolverhampton bound platform was opened up to allow anybody walking to the station from the town direction to avoid a dog-leg via the car park.
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Both of them seem vastly over-engineered as it looks as if it should have been relatively easy to provide gently sloping access down from the existing overbridges and thus remove the reliance on lifts for accessible access (!) and the accompanying need to maintain them.
 
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The Mercian

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Henbury, Macclesfield
28/4

A ramble around Lancashire covering off the remaining stations between Bolton and Preston and everything on the North and South Fylde lines.

Adlington (Lancs)
Buckshaw Parkway
Chorley
Kirkham and Wesham
Leyland
Layton
Poulton-le-Fylde
Blackpool South
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Squires Gate
St Anne’s on the Sea
Ansdell and Fairhaven
Lytham
Moss Side
Salwick
 
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ccityplanner12

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Rotterdam Centrꜳl – Delft Campus
Martijnus Nijhofflꜳn – Beelden ꜳn Zee
Scheveningen Strand – Statenlꜳn
Statenkwartier – Hague Centrꜳl – Amersfꝏrt (another attempt to get the Mat'64 diagram, which wasn't running because it was a bank holiday) – Ede-Wageningen – Arnhem – Zutphen – Hengelo – Osnabrück Altstadt

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof – Lage-in-Lippe – Paderborn Hauptbahnhof
Kasseler Tor – Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof

Löhne
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof – Flughafen Bahnhof – Flughafen Terminal C – Wehrhahn – Engerstraße – Heinrich-Heine-Allee – Handelszentrum Moskauer Straße – Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof – Krefeld Rheinstraße – Krefeld Hauptbahnhof – Neuss Hauptbahnhof – Glockhammer
Neuss Markt – Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof

Düsseldorf Hbf – Cleves (I saw a hauled turn leave Düsseldorf at 6pm and, based on it being a 4-hour round trip, correctly calculated that it would next run again at 10am).
Xanten – Duisburg Hbf – Hamm-in-Westphalia – Oelde – Bielefeld Brackwede
Brackwede Church – Bielefeld Hbf
 
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Cletus

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Dover
02/05/26

Roydon
(followed by a walk along the River Stort Navigation)
Harlow Town
 
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ccityplanner12

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Hamm-in-Westphalia – Unna – Dortmund-Dorstfeld
Poth – Westentor
Dortmund Hauptbahnhof – Markgrafenstraße & back.
 
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The Mercian

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Henbury, Macclesfield
5 May 2026

A wander around North Lancashire after a few delays in the morning because of the issues around Wigan on the WCML.

Croston
Rufford
Lancaster
Bare Lane
Morecambe
Heysham Port
Carnforth
Wennington
Silverdale
 
43172

43172

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7 Oct 2020
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Location
South west England
10/1/2026:
Porte de Saint-Cloud (Paris metro)

2/5/2026:
Drumcondra
Dublin Connolly
Drogheda MacBride
Belfast Grand Central

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