2019 New Track Coverage

[Peter Mugridge]

...and again, I will get ahead of the requests by creating the track basher's report thread for the year.

 

[Kite159]

Birmingham AirRail Link
The curve from Nuneaton Abbey Junction into Nuneaton platform 2 (from the Birmingham direction)

 

[xotGD]

9th Jan:

Hitchin - Shepreth Branch Junction (i.e. the line to Cambridge) - there via the flyover and back on the flat junction.

My first taste of the Class 700!

 

[03_179]

Two for me so far and both on the 04th Jan

Tonbridge to Strood via Maidstone West

Hastings to Ashford International.

 

[Esker-pades]

Jan 11th:
Warrington Bank Quay to Chester
Llandudno Junction to Llandudno
Llandudno Junction to Roman Bridge

 

[route101]

Jan 14th .

Kirkby to Wigan Wallgate (Done the SOuthport bit so where the junction )
Kirkny to Kirkdale (Well where the branch connects to the Ormkirks)
Liverpool to Hunts Cross on Merseyrail

 

[Peter Mugridge]

14/01/19

Gerard's Bridge Junction to Golborne Junction. Both directions - and completely unintended as well!

Ordsall Chord - both directions. This, at least, was a planned move.

 

[Gathursty]

20/01

North Stafford Junction - Tamworth High Level

Cross-Country Route now covered from Newcastle to Exeter St Davids.

 

[_toommm_]

20/01:

Clitheroe to Hellifield

 

[xotGD]

23/01:

Canal tunnels both ways, plus the flyover southbound from Finsbury Park to get to the tunnel.

 

[Esker-pades]

25th Jan:
Paisley Canal Branch

 

[PeterY]

24th Jan
Ash around to Aldershot and then Aldershot to Ascot.

That's the whole of southern England completed except for a few peak only curves.

Living in Hemel Hempstead, I've now got to travel and my nearest line to bash is either Ebbw Vale or Skeggy Branches.

 

[_toommm_]

Bishop Auckland branch

I've now cleared all of the Northern Rail network in just under a year, save for Stockport to Staly - this one may prove tricky...

 

[nat67]

26/1/19

Didcot-Swindon (for the year).
Acton mainline dive under on a 345 for the first time ever.
Reading-Reading West.

 

[03_179]

31st January 2019.

I took on the winter wonderland of Essex on Thursday and covered a few new lines.

Barking to Shoeburyness (down line).

Shoeburyness to Pitsea (plat 2) (Upline).

Pitsea (plat 4) to Grays (up line).

Grays to Rainham (Upline).

c2c lines needed now are:
The bit between Pitsea and Southend that little junction bit.
The Grays to Barking via Ockenden.

 

[Kite159]

3/2

Liskeard platform 2 towards the Looe branch
Combe Junction towards Moorswater cement.

 

[Esker-pades]

9th Feb:
Grantham to Wainfleet

 

[nat67]

Leamington-Banbury (for the year).

 

[Gathursty]

19/02

Leamington Spa - Oxford (XC Bournemouth arm from Birmingham complete upto Oxford)
Oxford - Worcester Foregate Street (Oxford-Hereford now complete)
Worcester Shrub Hill - Tunnel Junction (Worcester Triangle completed)

Class 800 ridden on for the first time today for over an hour! Impressed!!

 

[route101]

Done recently .
Merseyrail to Hunts cross from Liverpool Central.
Liverpool to Kirby . Kirby to Wigan.
Todmorden to Manchester Victoria.
Bolton to Blackburn.
Victoria to Stalybridge.

Enfield Town Branch , Chingford Branch . Cheshunt to Herford East .
LO to Richmond and Clapham Junction.
Richmond to Clapham Junction .
Gospel Oak to Barking.

 

[Esker-pades]

15th Feb:
Crewe to Shrewsbury
Craven Arms to Ludlow

 

[nat67]

19/2/19

Rugby-Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street-Cosford
(For the year).

 

[xotGD]

Thanks to this morning's Airedale/Wharfdale farce:

Apperley Junction - about quarter of a mile up the Ilkley branch, where we reversed.

Also got to travel 'bang road' between just past Kirkstall Forge back to Apperley Junction.

Three and a half hours on a 333 unit. Fun.

 

[Kite159]

15/2:
Heathrow Express Old Oak Common Depot
Maidenhead Reversing Siding & Carriage Sidings

16/2:
The little connection from Slough P2 towards the Windsor & Eden Central Line
Old Oak Common Flyover

(From the Pathfinder overnight tour)

24/2:
Gosforth East to Gosforth West Junction via the depot avoiding line (Tyne & Wear Metro)

 

[xotGD]

8th March:

High Wycombe - Aynho Jn. (both ways)

 

[DanNCL]

A bit late but here's my new track coverage for the year so far:

9th January
Deighton - Bradford Interchange

13th January
Bellgrove - Alexandra Parade
Linlithgow - Dalmeny

14th January
Raynes Park - Kingston

23rd January
Alexandra Palace - Bowes Park
Seven Sisters - Hackney Downs

13th February
Glasgow Queen Street - Larbert via Cumbernauld
Croy - Perth
Polmont - Larbert
Springburn - Alexandra Parade

14th February
Perth - Dundee
Stonehaven - Dundee - Ladybank

2nd March
Guide Bridge - Reddish South
Guide Bridge - Rose Hill Marple
Romiley - Ashburys via Reddish North
Bolton - Blackburn
Rose Grove - Colne
Stockport - Chester
Chester - Capenhurst
Chester - Warrington Bank Quay
Warrington Bank Quay - Huyton
Wigan North Western - Bolton

3rd March
Wigan Wallgate - Salford Crescent via Swinton
Todmorden - Brighouse
Wakefield Kirkgate - Wakefield Westgate
Burley Park - York via Harrogate

 

[nat67]

9/3/19

Anyho Jn-Marylebone
Kings Cross-Stevenage
Rugby-Northampton
(Just for the year)

 

[Esker-pades]

9th Mar:
Severn Beach to Stapleton Road

 

[nat67]

10/3/19

Wellingborough-St Pancras
(For the year)

 

[nat67]

25/3/19

Moorgate-Finsbury Park
London Liverpool Street-Stratford
London Euston-Edinburgh via Carlisle
Edinburgh-Fort William via Glasgow Queen Street low Level
(All time)