2023 New Track Coverage

[GW43125]

17th June
Bournemouth bay
Clink Rd Jn-Blatchbridge Jn via Frome, down line/direction.
Castle Cary platform 3 and line to Yeovil PM.

SWR network now cleared at Baker level.
Only the mainline past Gloucester needed for GWR now, unless we're counting the VoG divert and Swansea District.

 

[miklcct]

2023-05-08
Wivelsfield - Lewes

2023-05-13
Laindon - Westcliff

2023-05-21
Manningtree - Dovercourt

2023-06-04
Streatham - Streatham Common

2023-06-06
Waterloo - Lambeth North

2023-06-13
Finsbury Park - Turnpike Lane

2023-06-20
Streatham - St Helier

 

[miklcct]

2023-07-01
Hampton Court branch

 

[GW43125]

30-06-2023
Down Fast-Down Slow at Watford South Jn.

 

[1971martin]

Tuesday 13th June 2023

Bolton - Blackburn
Daisyfield Jn - Clitheroe
Gannow Jn - Colne
Blackburn - Bradford Interchange

Wednesday 14th June 2023

Manchester Metrolink

Piccadilly - Ashton Under Lyme
Piccadilly Gardens - Altrincham
Cornbrook - Eccles via Media City
Cornbrook - Manchester Airport
St Werburghs Road - East Didsbury

Salford Crescent - Crow's Nest Jn via Atherton

Thursday 15th June 2023

Manchester Metrolink

Victoria - Rochdale Town Centre

All Manchester Metrolink lines now done

Monday 19th June 2023

Edinburgh Trams

Edinburgh Airport - Newhaven

 

[A Challenge]

Since my last update:

• Manchester Victoria to Bradford Interchange (via Hebden Bridge)
• Mill Lane Jn to Holbeck Junction
• Wakefield Westgate Sth Jn to Wakefield Kirkgate
• Wakefield Kirkgate to Barnsley
• Shaftholme Jn to Wakefield Kirkgate
• Trowell Jn to Trent East Jn
• Horbury Jn to Dryclough Jn
• Gainsborough Trent Jns to Cleethorpes
• Crewe North Jn to Holyhead
• Llandudno Junction to Llandudno
• Llandudno Junction to Dolwyddelan
• Chester East Jn to Acton Grange Jn
• Winwick Jn to Earlestown
• Crewe South Jn to Shrewsbury
• Shrewsbury Crewe Jn S.B. to Wrexham General
• Wrexham General to Wrexham Central
• Wrexham General to Bidston
• Bidston to Bidston East Jn
• Stoke Jn to Little Bridgeford Jn
• Springs Branch Jn to Huyton Jn
• Ordsall Lane Jn to Manchester Victoria
• Marple Wharf Jn to Rose Hill Marple
• Romiley to Ashburys East Jn via Guide Bridge
• Kidsgrove to Crewe South Jn
• Dolwyddelan to Blaenau Ffestiniog
• Frodsham Jn to Allerton Jn
• Southampton Central to Hinton Admiral

 

[htafc]

6/5/23

Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Settle

28/6/23

Manchester Victoria to Manchester Oxford Road
Stockport to Stafford
Stafford to Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Coventry
Coventry to Oxford

 

[12LDA28C]

28/6/23


Stockport to Stafford
Stafford to Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Coventry
Coventry to Oxford

I'm confused - is this not effectively just Stockport to Oxford? No mention either of via Crewe or Stoke and so on.

 

[htafc]

I'm confused - is this not effectively just Stockport to Oxford? No mention either of via Crewe or Stoke and so on.

Apologies for the confusion, it is Stockport to Oxford and via Stoke, not Crewe. I was tired when I wrote it!

 

[miklcct]

2023-07-08
Dover - Deal

2023-07-09
Tattenham Corner line (Purley - Tattenham Corner)

 

[miklcct]

2023-07-13
Sutton - West Sutton
Cheam - Sutton

2023-07-14
Haggerston - Highbury & Islington

 

[Kite159]

14/7:
Site of York Place to Newhaven on Edinburgh Trams (although only one way as I decided on a walk as the sun came out)

15/7:
Tiny bit of new track leading into the lesser used platform 3 at Perth, right to the buffers as well. Was expecting that train to go into the more usual P5 or P6 as Perth is a bit of a black hole when it comes to platforms post event

 

[D841 Roebuck]

15/07/2023

New Beckenham to Beckenham Jc.

 

[Turbo004]

17/07/23

Site of York Place - Newhaven on Edinburgh Trams.

 

[miklcct]

2023-07-18
Surrey Quays to New Cross Gate

 

[miklcct]

2023-08-01
Selhurst - West Croydon - Sutton - Banstead

 

[xotGD]

2nd August:

Mid Cheshire Line, Chester to Stockport

 

[xotGD]

3rd August: Heald Green West Jn - Wilmslow (southern bit of the Styal line). I still need the airport avoider.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

04/08/2023
Part of the headshunt running beyond Bridge of Dun Station whilst riding the brake van...

05/08/2023
A bit of track to the south of Eridge station on the Spa valley - the Thumper unit reversed down here a bit in order to get it's exhausts under the bridge for the loudest possible departure...

06/08/2023
More sensible today - the East Kent Railway (Shepherds Well to Eythorne). And, on the main line, the PSUL curves from Chislehurst to St Mary Cray and vv.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

08/08/23

Villiers-sur-Marne - Plessise-Trevis to Verneuil-L'Etang

Gargan to Hopital Montfermeil

10/08/23

Hopital Beclare to Jardin Parisien

Hopital Beclare to La Croix de Berny

Aeroport d'Orly to Porte de l'Essonne

Aeroport d'Orly to Villejuif-Louis Aragon

Porte de Choicy to Orly - Gaston Viens

Grigny - Val de Seine to Corbeil - Essonnes ( via Ris Oranges )

 

[route101]

Swansea to Bridgend. Still not been West of Swansea.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

15/08/2023
The Watford Miniature Railway in Cassiobury Park.

16/08/2023
The "Main" and "Branch" running lines at the Didcot Railway Centre.

 

[1971martin]

Tuesday 15th August 2023

Hyde Jn - Rose Hill Marple

 

[miklcct]

2023-08-26
Tilbury loop line (Barking - Pitsea)
Westcliff - Southend Central

2023-08-27
Redhill - Reigate

2023-08-29
Canary Wharf - Custom House
Royal Victoria - Canning Town

 

[jnjkerbin]

25/8
Polmont Jn - Greenhill Upper Jn (via Falkirk High)
Edinburgh Trams: Former York Place - Newhaven

26/8
Kilmarnock - Auchinleck

28/8
Bushbury Jn - Portobello Jn (avoiding Wolverhampton)
Aston South Jn - Stechford South Jn

 

[Peter Mugridge]

09/09/23

Mangapps - Old Heath

 

[D841 Roebuck]

30/09/2023
Abergwili to Bronwydd Arms (the Gwili Railway has got longer since my previous visit!)

 

[D841 Roebuck]

14/10/2023
Various bits of "bobbins" (loops, sidings and other non-passenger track) at the Paignton and Dartmouth Railway on the BLS Four Stroke jaunt.

16/10/2023
The Seaton Tramway (Seaton to Colyton, Devon). Highly recommended, and for those of an ornithological bent is excellent for birds.

 

[childwallblues]

17/10/2023

Headbolt Lane-Kirkby by Merseyrail battery train.

 

[xotGD]

21st October

Gatwick Airport - The junction just outside Brighton (having previously arrived into Brighton from the Hastings direction then departed towards Hove).