2023 New Track Coverage

[Techniquest]

22/10/2023

Kirkby-Headbolt Lane (p2 track)

Technically I did the route east of Kirkby years ago, but this rebuild counts enough as new track for me! The single track bit into p1 and the altered layout for p3 with Northern will get done on another occasion

 

[1971martin]

A few days in Manchester gave me the following

Monday 23rd October 2023

Kirkby - Headbolt Lane

Tuesday 24th October 2023

Wigan Wallgate - Headbolt Lane

Thursday 26th October 2023

Ashburys East Jn - Romiley via Bredbury
Romiley - New Mills South Jn via Marple

 

[D841 Roebuck]

03/11/2023
A bit of bonus "bobbins" today, as a result of single line working at Morpeth, resulting in my scoring a couple of crossovers...

 

[xotGD]

8th November

Liz Line Farringdon to Liverpool St.

Creeping ever Eastwards!

 

[Turbo004]

10th November

Dingwall - Kyle of Lochalsh

Last major line now completed.
Saved the best to last. So scenic in the sun with snow capped mountains.

 

[xotGD]

10th November

Dingwall - Kyle of Lochalsh

Last major line now completed.
Saved the best to last. So scenic in the sun with snow capped mountains.

Very nice.

I first did it behind a 26...

 

[D6130]

I first did it behind a 26...

....and I first did it behind a 24!

 

[thomas379]

Few hours to burn crossing the Atlantic today gave me a change to work out all the new track for the year.

18 January 2023​

• West Ham - Barking Riverside
• Witham - Braintree

24 March 2023​

• St Pancras Canal Tunnel Junction - Bell Isle

04 April 2023​

• Trent South Junction - Nottingham

20 April 2023​

• Highbury & Islington - Camden Road

18 July 2023​

• Amersham - Neasden South Junction

27 July 2023​

• Upminster - Romford
• Whitechapel - Clapham Junction

05 September 2023​

• Swindon - Bristol Parkway

24 September 2023​

• Corby - Melton Junction

05 October 2023​

• Camden Road - Gospel Oak
• Stratford - Highbury & Islington

18 October 2023​

• Willesden Junction - Richmond
• Richmond - Feltham
• Feltham Junction - Clapham Junction (via Brentford)
• Gloucester Road Junction - West Croydon
• Purley - Tattenham Corner

3 November 2023​

• Beckenham Junction - Shortlands
• New Cross - Clock House
• Shortlands - Loughborough Junction

14 November 2023​

• Heathrow Central - Heathrow Terminal 4

 

[D841 Roebuck]

19/11/2023
Did the tram from The Hawthorns to Wolverhampton, thus scoring the track from the junction just before St George's down to the Railway Station.

....and I first did it behind a 24!

37418 for me, 31/07/1987. Taken from Kyle to Dingwall after an overnight trip on the sleeper to Fort William, a continuation to Mallaig, and a trip up the Sound of Sleat on the "MV Lochmor". Never been back (yet!)...

 

[1971martin]

19/11/2023

East Lancashire Railway

Heywood - Hopwood ground frame

 

[AJM580]

18/11/23

Great Central Railway

Swithland Sidings - Nunckley Hill

 

[Jamesrob637]

I went on the following on Friday which I think were all new:

Elizabeth Line from Seven Kings to Romford (I'd done Liverpool Street to Seven Kings back in 2011)
Central Line from Fairlop to Leytonstone via a brief stop in Wanstead for the George Wetherspoon literally opposite the station
Overground from Bush Hill Park to Enfield Town (a bit of a stretch lol. I'd done Bush Hill Park to Liverpool Street back in 2004)
Great Northern from Enfield Chase to Palmers Green
Overground from Kilburn High Road to Euston (Might have done this line before, but not certain, hence the first line of this post).

 

[thomas379]

19 November 2023
Hackney Downs P4/Down Suburban to Down Cambridge Crossover.

 

[miklcct]

2023-09-08
Royal Victoria - Prince Regent

2023-10-01
Wood Street - Chingford

2023-10-08
Hitchin - Cambridge - Ipswich - Felixstowe

2023-10-13
Edinburgh - Stirling

 

[miklcct]

2023-09-17
Harrow-on-the-Hill - Uxbridge

 

[miklcct]

2023-11-18
Green Park - South Kensington

 

[childwallblues]

Town Green crossover. Very rare track being used whilst Town Green to Ormskirk is closed.

 

[miklcct]

2023-11-28
Piccadilly: Piccadilly Circus - Green Park / South Kensington - Acton Town

 

[miklcct]

2023-12-10
Beaconsfield - Saunderton
Wembley Stadium - London Marylebone

 

[Turbo004]

Sunday 17th December
Gas Factory Junction - Bow Junction near Stratford, London

Completed at the second attempt. The first attempt in Febuary this year was thwarted by a lineside fire near Stratford.

 

[miklcct]

2023-12-14 - 2023-12-17 trip to Netherlands

Eurostar London - Rotterdam via HS1, Eurotunnel, LGV Nord, HSL 1 and HSL 4

Significant lines covered in Netherlands (not a complete list):

Utrecht–Rotterdam railway and the line to Utrecht Maliebaan
Metro E from Rotterdam to Den Haag
Tram tunnel in Den Haag
Oude Lijn from Den Haag to Leiden
Schiphollijn from Leiden to Amsterdam Zuid
Metro 51 between Amsterdam Zuid and Nieuwmarkt
IJtram the whole route
HSL-Zuid between Schiphol and Rotterdam

 

[miklcct]

2023-12-26
Wood Green - Arnos Grove (now Heathrow T5 - Oakwood done on Piccadilly)

London Underground summary:

Line​	Cover from​	Cover to​
Bakerloo​	all done​
Central​	Ealing Broadway​	North Acton​
Central​	Holland Park​	Loughton​
Circle​	all done​
District​	Wimbledon​	Edgware Road​
District​	Richmond​	East Ham​
District​	Ealing Broadway​	East Ham
Hammersmith & City​	Hammersmith​	Liverpool Street​
Jubilee​	Wembley Park​	Stratford​
Metropolitan​	all done​
Northern (Bank branch)​	Mill Hill East​	Morden​
Northern (Charing Cross branch)​	Hendon Central​	Kennington​
Piccadilly​	Heathrow T5​	Oakwood​
Victoria​	all done​
Waterloo & City​	all done​

 

[miklcct]

2023-12-30
Hendon Central - Colindale (an extension of the previously covered Northern Line)