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As a fellow traveller who has recently entered his 7th decade, was half thinking of doing a 7 day ALR visiting the most Northerly, Southerly, Easterly and Westerly stations I haven't yet boarded or alighted at in each of England, Scotland and Wales. Then Oulton Broad North got flambee'd...

07/05/2026 197043 730212 08/05/2026 03120 (no prizes for guessing where...) 165121 172005 (class finally cleared!) 387153, 387169 730005

07/05/2026 Kings Sutton (A felicitous score - was heading down to Reading on my "Not via Birmingham or London" route - Manchester/Crewe/Nuneaton/Leamington/Banbury/Oxford - when I noticed that the Chiltern service I caught from LMS gratuitously called at Kings Sutton, and there was a Banbury...

12/04/2026 34070 "Manston" 34092 "City of Wells 60163 "Tornado" (Had a trip to the ELR Legends of Steam weekend as a change from Diesel Shunters!)

10/04/2026 08308 (although I had to drive it!) 08573 M51950+M52062 (Class 108)

Expanding the topic to include "by public surface transport", Thurso to the Orkneys can be done by travelling West to Scrabster to catch a ferry or East to Gills Bay to do likewise.

4/4/2026 08617, 08887 09007 66694, 66701 350102 730229, 730235

21/03/2026 (First time on any train this year!) 168326 on the way to the C&PRR gala 08703 and 66727 at the gala 168001 on the way back (last 168, class cleared)

Sunday 30th November Emsworth Monday 1st December Godalming (which was staffed by thoroughly pleasant and friendly people, and has a nice coffee shop with homemade flapjacks!)

November 2025 07/11/2025 730224 (Crewe to Smethwick GB) 08/11/2025 800310 (Paignton to Dawlish) 150216 (Dawlish to Newton Abbot) 56103 (Staverton to Buckfastleigh) 09/11/2025 150265 (Paignton to Newton Abbot) 730217 (Smethwick GB to Crewe) 21/11/2025 323217 (Man Picc to Crewe) 23/11/2025...

12/10/2025 Giffnock

October 2025 11/10/2025 08696, 08764, 08954 93006 385020, 385042 12/10/2025 156431, 156437, 156446, 156504, 156508, 156511 334038

September 2025 Friday 19th: 197126 730216 802002 Saturday 20th 150249 Ruston&Hornsby #492/1961, Sentinel #10077/1961 Sunday 21st East Car (Babbacombe Cliff Lift) Monday 22nd 802015 221113 MV "Pride of Exmouth" (boat) Tuesday 23rd Wooden thing (Teignmouth to Shaldon ferry) 43189 7827 "Lydham...

August... 15/08/2025 43028 (+ dud 43037) Edinburgh to Broughty Ferry* 43134 (+dud 43183) Broughty Ferry to Aberdeen 16/08/2025 43163 (+dud 43144) Aberdeen to Montrose 12093 Brake van shuttle x 4 at Bridge of Dun 17/08/2025 D2134 Milton of Crathes to Level Crossing and back 18/08/2025 170451...

A bit of a catch up: 03/07/2026 57002 Bury Bolton St to Heywood 05/07/2025 555005 Central Station to Haymarket (Nexus) 08915 Middle Engine Lane to Percy Main 03078 Percy Main to Middle Engine Lane TIC #35 Middle Engine Lane to Percy Main 555027 Percy Main to Monument (Nexus) 555028 Monument to...

That was a nice read. Thanks. (And a gentle reminder about the cable railway near Saltaire, which needs a visit!)

05/07/2025 03078 (penultimate extant 03 unless any more are lurking in Italy!)

05/07/2025 Middle Engine Lane (North Tyneside Rly) Percy Main (North Tyneside Rly) Percy Main (Nexus)

03/07/2025 57002 05/07/2025 03078 08915 Ruston & Hornsby #418600/1958 555005, 556027, 555028 802216

14/06/2025 North Walsham 22/06/2025 Sittingbourne Viaduct (S&KLR) Kemsley Down (S&KLR)