Going From A to A without going through the same station twice.

[MCR247]

His choice not mine

 

[317653]

Cambridge to Kings Cross
Tube: Kings Cross to Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street to Cambridge

 

[Neilandrewhall]

Sorry I haven't been on..
I will edit the title now

 

[Neilandrewhall]

Sorry I haven't been on..
I will edit the title now

 

[N Levers]

.....

 

[junglejames]

Watford- Birmingham- Shrewsbury, Chester, Lancaster, Barrow, Carlisle, Cambuslang, Glasgow Low Level, Partick, Maryhill, Croy, Stirling, Perth, Inverness (can you by pass Inverness without reversing in the staation), Aberdeen, Edinburgh, York, Leeds, down to Bedford, St Pancras (FCC), London Bridge, Tonbridge, Ashford, Dover, Margate, Bromley South, Kensington Olympia, Watford.

Even better. Start from St Pancras, via HS1 to Ashford, round to Bromley via Dover and Margate, then over to Reading, Swansea, Heart of Wales line, Shrewsbury, Chester, then exactly as above but finishing at St Pancras, high level.
How many miles is that!

 

[MCR247]

You reverse at Chester? And I don't think you can bypass Inverness...

How do you get to Reading from Bromley?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

You can bypass Inverness, but not on a scheduled service. There is a freight / ecs curve that allows direct acces to the Far North from the Highland Main Line.

 

[MCR247]

But you can't go from Aviemore to Aberdeen without reversing

 

[atomicdanny]

You reverse at Chester? And I don't think you can bypass Inverness...

How do you get to Reading from Bromley?

I assume past Wandsworth Road, onto the West London Line then onto the GWML that way? (since Virgin then XC voyagers used that route a few times - the west london line - acton on the GWML)

 

[junglejames]

I assume past Wandsworth Road, onto the West London Line then onto the GWML that way? (since Virgin then XC voyagers used that route a few times - the west london line - acton on the GWML)

Precisely.
So the only problem is i apparently have to reverse at Chester? Oh well, go via Crewe instead of Chester then. Shrewsbury onto Crewe.
Im assuming we are allowed to use the Inverness avoider?

 

[transportphoto]

Norwich - Diss - Stowmarket - Needham Market - Ipswich (rev) - Westerfield - Woodbridge - Melton - Wickham Market - Saxmundham - Darsham - Halesworth - Brampton - Beccles - Oulton Broad South - Lowestoft (rev) - Oulton Broad North - Somerleyton - Haddiscoe - Reedham - Cantley - Buckenham - Brundal - Brundal Gardens - Norwich

 

[MCR247]

Precisely.
So the only problem is i apparently have to reverse at Chester? Oh well, go via Crewe instead of Chester then. Shrewsbury onto Crewe.
Im assuming we are allowed to use the Inverness avoider?

What Inverness avoider?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Having checked with Quail, you can go from Carrbridge-Nairn without having to go into Inverness station, you can go over at Welsh's Bridge Jn, just like you can from Dingwall.

 

[transportphoto]

Also...

Norwich - Wymondham - Spooner Row - Attleborough - Eccles Road - Harling Road - Thetford - Brandon - Lakenheath - Shippea Hill - Ely - Waterbeach - Cambridge - Shelford - Whittlesford Parkway - Great Chesterford - Audley End - Newport - Elsenham - Stansted Air (rev) - Stansted M - Bishops Stortford - Sawbrigdeworth - Harlow Mill - Harlow Town - Roydon - Broxbourne - Cheshnunt - Waltham Cross - Enfield Lock - Brimsdown - Ponders End - Angel Road - Northumberland Park - Tottenham Hale - Stratford (rev) - Maryland - Forest Gate - Manor Park - Ilford - Seven Kings - Goodmayes - Chadwell Heath - Romford - Gidea Park - Harold Wood - Brentwood - Shenfield - Ingatestone - Chelmsford - Hatfield Peveral - Witham - Kelvedon - Marks Tey - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich - Needham Market - Stowmarket - Diss - Norwich

 

[MCR247]

Having checked with Quail, you can go from Carrbridge-Nairn without having to go into Inverness station, you can go over at Welsh's Bridge Jn, just like you can from Dingwall.

Interesting, I'm not aware of a connection there :?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Interesting, I'm not aware of a connection there :?

Actually, yep you cannot, I was reading it wrong, you can only go from Nairn/Carrbridge-Beauly, and vice versa.

 

[junglejames]

Actually, yep you cannot, I was reading it wrong, you can only go from Nairn/Carrbridge-Beauly, and vice versa.

Spoil sport!!!

I thought you could, but hey, you live and learn.
I see a few others have included reversals though!

Well, i shall just go along from Partick to Edinburgh, and down.
Oh, and after Newcastle im now going via Sunderland. Bit of extra mileage!

 

[northernrail]

If still open could of said the Oldham Loop
Manchester Vic-Dean Lane-Failsworth-Hollinwood-Oldham Werneth-Oldham Mumps-Derker-Shaw And Crompton-New Hey-Milnrow-Rochdale-Castleton-Mills Hill-Moston Manchester Vic

 

[gnolife]

Shrewsbury, the line through Ruabon, Chester, Warrington BQ, Wigan NW, Preston, Carnforth, Long Preston, Clitheroe, Blackburn, Bolton, Salford Crescent, Manchester Piccadilly, Heald Green (or Stockport), Wilmslow, Crewe to Shrewsbury