How do I measure my coverage milage?

[Nym]

I've decided to be very sad and record all my journeys this year, I was wondering how I work out what the mialage is, and if I get say the Stockport only train from Manc Pic to Euston, how I can know which direction it's been without the wonders of GPS or looking out the window...

 

[Tom]

CORE is a good way of adding up milage, and most non stop Euston to Stockport trains run via Stoke on Trent IIRC.

 

[Gizmogle]

Looking out of the window is a good idea, as some go via Northampton and a few that I've caught recently have gone via Coventry and Bescot Stadium.

The majority go through Stoke, Rugby, Watford and down to London.

 

[Nym]

I can't get me head round CORE, and looking out the window makes me ill, lol, I'll proberbly be having rather loud music on or watching a DVD on my laptop with the volume on, I'm a rather "Anti-Social" intercity traveller, lol
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I think I might be getting the hang of it now...

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Does using it to get distances between each station/routing point work OK if you add em up?

 

[Gizmogle]

Well sir, you are the kind of passenger I bloody really, really hate. Get some bloody headphones.

Anyway, CORE is easy. Just type your destinations in, and it'll give you lists of the stops on the route. If you know which one you took, then you know how many miles you've travelled.

 

[voyagerdude220]

Gizmogle, i'd like to point you in the direction of this website:

http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~butler/miles1.lst

It may not be as straight forward, but i've used it many times for mileage, and if you use the CTRL+F function, it'll make it alot easier for you.

 

[Aureol]

Gizmogle, i'd like to point you in the direction of this website:

http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~butler/miles1.lst

It may not be as straight forward, but i've used it many times for mileage, and if you use the CTRL+F function, it'll make it alot easier for you.

Gizmogle?! hock:

It's Nym asking for the help, my friend

 

[16CSVT2700]

Remember though, CORE uses miles and chains. 1mile = 80 chains so add up the miles in one column and chains in another. I have a spreadsheet which I made which does this using formulas:


The formulas are (using my spreadsheet as an example):
=sum(F4:F900) for miles
=sum(G4:G900) for chains

then to do the chains:
=sum(cell/80)
Now you'll get a smaller figure which is miles.leftover. I usually guess what the leftover is and add it to the end figure so I end up with something like 3994m76c etc.
Of course using spreadsheet also tells you how many moves you've made. Minusing the rows used for title, gap and Column headers, I made 299 individual moves between 01/01/07 and 01/11/07 with more to be added, to a total yearly mileage of 14,766.738 miles.

 

[Nym]

I've just printed off some bible pages and that has milages to the nearest 1/4...

EG, Stoke - Stafford

16mi15ch on t'interweb, and works out at 17miles from the bible...

Gizmogle, I do have headphones and do use them, but I did have somone complain once because I was typing too loud on my keyboard! I have to type hard for a medical condition (Don't ask!). So i put a film on loud to get my own back.

I can do it with both all the time and check the discressions

I was wondering if theres a timetable (appart from using TOPS) that tells you the route of it, unless I catch silly stoppy services all the time, lol

Edit: and I can always join the dots on t'interweb thing and know how to add mi+ch

 

[voyagerdude220]

Gizmogle?! hock:

It's Nym asking for the help, my friend

Yeah, i just saw her post as the last one before mine, and accidently put Gizmogle instead of Nym

 

[16CSVT2700]

I was wondering if theres a timetable (appart from using TOPS) that tells you the route of it, unless I catch silly stoppy services all the time, lol

Edit: and I can always join the dots on t'interweb thing and know how to add mi+ch

Check the stopper service calling points before you board, that'll give you an indication on what route you're taking.
Some services use fixed routings however a few may have slightly longer journies due to routes. I.e Wellingborough-Bedford may be longer by a few chains if it takes the Wymington Deviation instead of the main route over Sharnbrook summit. Check a quail map for exact mileages.

 

[33056]

I've decided to be very sad and record all my journeys this year, I was wondering how I work out what the mialage is, and if I get say the Stockport only train from Manc Pic to Euston, how I can know which direction it's been without the wonders of GPS or looking out the window...

The only answer is you have to pay attention! Whilst many trains in this country will only go via their booked route, there are several instances where you can get caught out; for example going via Northampton rather than Weedon and via the West Midlands rather than the Trent Valley. Though you would have to be well dossed out not to notice the latter leepy2:

Being a dinosaur, I still do my mileages the hard way using a "Mile by Mile" book (David Maxey / Peter Watts publishing, now out of print) in conjunction with Quail / Sectional Appendices for up to date bits and fine details. I have made my own "conversion table" to decimalize the miles and chains and write all my moves out on a spread sheet so it is easy to add up.

Foreign stuff is easy being metric, there are plenty of books and atlases to get distances from - if you are in a country where there are no known books of distances, then you will have to stay awake and watch the km posts. I always convert my km distances to (decimal) miles, it provides an interesting comparison.

One last tip, keep up to date with your moves as it is an absolute pain to try and catch up, speaking from experience here as I am currently trying to catch up on over a years worth.

 

[87015]

I have small A5 books, one for each region dating from probably mid80s which have both miles/decimals and miles/chains listed, obviously a bit out of date now but picked up for £2 the set years ago at a preserved line - always worth being on the look out in those second hand shops at preserved lines.

 

[theblackwatch]

I have small A5 books, one for each region dating from probably mid80s which have both miles/decimals and miles/chains listed, obviously a bit out of date now but picked up for £2 the set years ago at a preserved line - always worth being on the look out in those second hand shops at preserved lines.

The good old 'Miles & Chains' books by Milepost publications! An excellent little series. My Eastern Region edition even has some heritage main lines, such as Doncaster-York via Selby!

 

[Dennis]

It's mileage not milage.