Crewe to Chester is just damned annoying because of the need to use the tin rocket shuttle, due to the dogma of running all TfW West Mids services the long way round via Wrecsam.
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Most boring journeys between 2 Stations (Tunnels don’t count!!)
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BeijingDave
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I also agree about Chester-Crewe. Familiarity makes it boring, but actually it has good scenery - Beeston Castle, the marina, Crewe Heritage Centre APT in clear view.
Most boring to me is Chester-Liverpool up the Wirral. Identikit Merseyrail stations, stop-start-stop-start, always absolutely packed, 45 minutes-ish to do a journey that feels like it should be much quicker.
Most boring to me is Chester-Liverpool up the Wirral. Identikit Merseyrail stations, stop-start-stop-start, always absolutely packed, 45 minutes-ish to do a journey that feels like it should be much quicker.
Techniquest
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Absolutely with you on that with regards to the first paragraph. A couple of years ago I went to Las Vegas to visit the Grand Canyon. Sadly, it didn’t happen due to the weather, and I flew back to rain going almost horizontally!
The sheer variety of scenery, the colours, it was just all so nice to see after a few days in a place I *really* didn’t like. Las Vegas can jog on, not my sort of place whatsoever! Even the wind and rain couldn’t spoil my sheer delight at looking out of the window and seeing the British countryside. One could only make it more of a patriotic thing if I’d had the national anthem on too!
There’s a LOT of journeys I find tedious, but only in parts. Hereford to Leominster has some nice parts, but it is a bit dull in parts too. I used to get really bored of the route between Hereford and Birmingham, a few years ago now, as I used to do the journey often enough to make it dull. Of course, these days a 170 on that journey would be full of nostalgia! Lots of nice scenery on that line, although I will say that Hereford to Ledbury is just a bit boring. Nothing too exciting kind of thing.
Those mentioning the ECML being boring, yes I am in agreement. There’s some good parts of course, however I wouldn’t want to use that line too often.
I’d discuss more things at length but I’m way too tired today. Up at 0421 and it’s around 2147 right now. I’d hit the hay, however this hotel is so close to the Northern line that I can hear the trains very clearly!
I wish to nominate Newton Abbot to Torre.
a very dull journey, especially considering that Exeter to Newton Abbot is one of the most beautiful journeys in the country, and Torre to Paignton has some lovely sea views. But between Newton Abbot and Torre, there is nothing. Well, apart from one really old bridge.
a very dull journey, especially considering that Exeter to Newton Abbot is one of the most beautiful journeys in the country, and Torre to Paignton has some lovely sea views. But between Newton Abbot and Torre, there is nothing. Well, apart from one really old bridge.
That's not completely boring for me, there is the fence at the end of my late uncle's garden to see for a start! Isn't there an Atmospheric Engine House somewhere too?
Yeah, I get what you mean, that part of the journey feels much longer than it actually is.
Tetragon213
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Harrow & Wealdstone-Wembley is one I'm not fond of. It's all within the confines of a wide cutting and scruffy as hell with graffiti. The scenery is effectively just brickwork, dead urban sprawl, and vandalised infrastructure.
Thankfully the rest of the WCML more than makes up for it, especially north of Stafford.
Thankfully the rest of the WCML more than makes up for it, especially north of Stafford.
another nomination: the Weston-super-Mare loop line.
Some nice countryside either side of it, but its difficult to like a line that passes through a seaside town but doesnt have a sea view.
The only interesting part of the journey for me is spotting two of my old homes along the route between Worle and Weston Milton!
Some nice countryside either side of it, but its difficult to like a line that passes through a seaside town but doesnt have a sea view.
The only interesting part of the journey for me is spotting two of my old homes along the route between Worle and Weston Milton!
Is that the one that looks a bit like a bomb shelter?
The episode will be on Channel 4 On Demand or whatever it's called these days, I'll have to see if I can find it!
steamybrian
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Coulsdon South to Merstham-
It is mostly in a deep cutting or tunnel
It is mostly in a deep cutting or tunnel
mike57
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If you allow continental journeys I would nominate Charles de Gaulle Airport to Marne le Vallee Chessy, 10 minutes, train hardly reaches line speed, and view is boring. Could be shortest time wise TGV journey in France and 25E to boot.
Bevan Price
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Any pair of stations between Wolverhampton & Birmingham New Street. Lots of dreart neglected former industrial landscape.
BeijingDave
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Those, to me, are some of the most interesting journeys!
I feel the same about Nuneaton - Birmingham and Nuneaton - Leicester. They are quite scenic at some points along the route, but because of the amount of times I travel on them it just feels like a chore now.
walkingsophie
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To me the deep cutting is one of the most interesting parts, I don't know anywhere else with two separate deep cuttings that close to and crossing over eachother.
That to me is quite interesting to see.
The cuttings through Narroways Hill north of Stapleton Rd in Bristol are like that, except that it is like a hot-cross bun and the west-to-east line has gone!
not as much fun now as when the foundries were working and you saw the glow of hot metal and loads of steam coming fron the top of the cupolas...
One thing I have never seen from the Quarry Line is a quarry. But at least Covered Way Tunnel isn't covered any more!
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It's a landfill site, now, isn't it? Maybe someone local can confirm?
Western Sunset
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I agree. The complexity of the BML holds a fascination in itself.
Certainly the last place I'd expect to see a 153 !
Part of the old SIR (Croydon Merstham and Godstone) trackbed just south of Star Lane is now being cultivated as a vineyard. Sadly you can't see it from a train.
Tetragon213
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Indeed. Not only neglected, but usually vandalised and covered in graffiti. And with plenty of fly-tipped litter as well.
walkingsophie
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I think my personal pick will be Teddington -> Hampton Wick, it's just 2 minutes of featureless suburbia
Boring suburbia is sooo dull - especially new build housing. Give me industrial sites, derelict or not, all day long.
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