Northern Rail trip

[Poolie]

.................thanks to their generosity, I now have a free day pass. All because of a delayed train. 40 minute late for my 5 minute journey !!

I'm going to take the day off work and exploit as much of their network that I can. Looking for Hartlepool - Carlisle - Leeds - York - Hartlepool. Is there any more I could squeeze into the day ?

Grateful of any constructive ideas and timings etc

 

[185143]

.................thanks to their generosity, I now have a free day pass. All because of a delayed train. 40 minute late for my 5 minute journey !!

I'm going to take the day off work and exploit as much of their network that I can. Looking for Hartlepool - Carlisle - Leeds - York - Hartlepool. Is there any more I could squeeze into the day ?

Grateful of any constructive ideas and timings etc

York-Hartlepool direct isn't Northern.
I've made Newcastle from Manchester before so it should be easily doable!

 

[Merseysider]

You could quite easily fit a trip down to Sheffield in - down from Leeds via Wakefield and up to York via Moorthorpe and Church Fenton. There are no time restrictions on the day voucher so you can start as early as you want. If you're feeling really adventurous, you could spend 4 hours going round Cumbria (via Ravenglass), down to Lancaster and then to Leeds via Burnley.

When I used my first one, I figured out an itinerary backwards, looking at the last train to get me home from Preston, what time I'd have to be in Preston for, etc etc.

 

[Zamracene749]

Last one I did (starting by bus from Peterlee) was Durham to Newcastle, Newcastle-Carlisle, Carlisle to Lancaster via Barrow, Lancaster- Morecambe - Leeds, Leeds to York then back to Hartlepool using Grand Central. Easily doable and well worth shelling out for the York Hartlepool section.

 

[FQ]

perhaps something like this.

0703 Hartlepool-Hexham 0837
0858 Hexham-Carlisle 0956
1054 Carlisle-Barrow in Furness 1323
1333 Barrow in Furness-Preston 1452 (TPE)
1537 Preston-York 1800
1841 York-Hartlepool 1944 (GC)