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It looks a fantastic journey. Looks a good guide on Seat61 as always. I've never done anything like that. Don't know if I'd be one of those who would pay the fare to share for the experience of having a travel companion, or whether I'd want my own cabin for safety assuming I didn't have a...

Two good station pubs there as well to utilise as well! :D

A good and interesting read. I suspected that the graphic wouldn't be as clear and simple as that.

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and it drew the usual comments about how UK fares are too expensive, and trains too crowded and never on time. I did a bit of research, finding that the £96 fare looks to probably be an outdated walk up peak single, with advance singles available from...

I can imagine festers being OK providing you are prepared for them, and things are on your side at the time (weather, etc) - sitting at an isolated station on a warm summer's day with a decent book or music, your lunch and a couple of cold drinks of your preference actually sounds quite a...

My local station is Scarborough. At the moment, we have the Saturday LM service to St Pancras (258m49c) - failing that, it's to Liverpool Lime Street (160m5c) or to Sheffield (113m19c).

Congratulations on clearing the HoW line! For such a rural line like that, it's quite the achievement!

That could be interesting, particularly if you go up north! I expect a Welsh one now as well if you are doing a Scottish one!! :D I've chosen my starting station I think as Accrington - especially as we are planning to actually do this at some point, and Accrington is convenient for us.

Impressive - alphabetical and seems to be a change at every letter too, which goes beyond the rules as well, which is fantastic! Was supposed to be doing mine tonight, but other things got in the way - hopefully tomorrow I shall have mine.

I would say the station has to be a NR station (like London Victoria) - if it happens to also be a Underground station, that's fine - but you need to use the National Rail element - so Victoria to Waterloo on the Tube wouldn't count.

Was sat down having a drink with a mate last night, and we created an idea to do an alphabet challenge on the trains. Basically, the idea was to travel to a station from A-Z, in a day - to see if it's possible. Quickly, we realised it wouldn't be and certain letters weren't possible - so we...

Great story! Sounds like it could be a thread of its own!! Reminds me of a programme on a few years back, the 7:39 I think it was!

Superb - thank you! :)

I wonder if anyone knows which station was used in the ITV drama "Brief Encounters" which was on ITV1 for the past few weeks? May well have been a heritage line but not 100% sure.

Seen pizzas being eaten a few times on trains. Including a group of about 8 blokes on the train about 8pm from Barnsley actually seeming rather sober! --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Never taken hot food on a train - a sandwich/wrap/pasta meal deal (a la Tesco/Sainsburys) is as...

Good trip report write-up Tech, and a good complaint write-up. I'd be pushing them for a decent refund as an absolute minimum. Different hotels have different policies - I remember stopping at a Premier Inn, and I complained on a 2-night stay about two separate issues (fire alarm and loud drunk...

I imagine it's a lot easier at day time to indicate your intention to get on the train than it is at night as well - particularly in the winter period.

Being from a seaside town, and often travelling to seaside termini, I suppose I have gained a bit of an affinity for those sorts of places. Not a fan of massive stations, but naturally understand their importance. Have used urban stations quite a lot, but find a lot of them are all very...

Obviously, there are stations like London Victoria, Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street which are huge stations, and the arteries of the network. Then there's your stations which serve the smaller cities, larger towns, etc - not to mention the seaside stops. You've got...

Enjoying the programme on the whole. The bit with Hannah Fry with her HP/torque equation made me chuckle when she used 33,000 as the denominator and said something about imperial measurements being weird! Love her twitter handle (Fryrsquared) - made me laugh too! Peter Snow - don't think he...