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Now is the time to launch my usual "monster-length" journey, to hopefully last whilst we are away from Sunday for 7 days on holiday in West Sussex.
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We next move to England for the next journey.....
This is number 423 in the series so far.....
The journey starts at the closed station of Port Carlisle
It follows the line of the Port Carlisle Railway
It then follows the line of the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
It then follows the line of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
It then follows the line of the Eden Valley Railway
It then follows the line of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Tees Valley Line
It then follows the line of the NER Saltburn to Brotton Line
It then follows the line of the Cleveland Railway
It then follows the line of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Scarborough and Whitby Railway
It then follows the line of the York to Scarborough Line
It then follows the line of the Malton and Driffield Railway
It then follows the line of the Selby to Driffield Line
It then follows the line of the Great Northern Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the Peterborough to Lincoln Line
It then follows the line of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
It then follows the line of the North Midland Railway
It then follows the line of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway
It then follows the line of the Midland Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the Erewash Valley Line
It then follows the line of the Midland Counties Railway
It then follows the line of the London and Birmingham Railway
It then follows the line of the Weedon, Daventry, Warwick and Coventry Line
It then follows the line of the Coventry to Nuneaton Line
It then follows the line of the Birmingham to Peterborough Line
It then follows the line of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
It then follows the line of the Bourne to Sleaford Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
It then follows the line of the Ely and St Ives Railway
It then follows the line of the Lynn and Ely Railway
It then follows the line of the Kings Lynn to Hunstanton Branch Line
It then follows the line of the West Norfolk Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Wymondham to Wells Branch Line...beware of many heritage stations
It then follows the line of the GER Wymondham and Forncett Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Great Eastern Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the Tendring Hundred Extension Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Thorington
The first closed station on this journey is Port Carlisle