Shack Attack 2016 (The Hammerhead Strikes Back)

[FQ]

Agreed! You're getting on very well with the shacks!

 

[Techniquest]

Good grief you two did well! Expect some New York entries from me soon

 

[185143]

05/03
Glasgow Central
Drumgelloch
Bathgate
Livingston North
Uphall
Edinburgh Park
Shawfair
Newtongrange
Eskbank
Gorbridge
Galashiels
Tweedbank
Polmont
Linlithgow

 

[Kite159]

05/03
Glasgow Central
Drumgelloch
Bathgate
Livingston North
Uphall
Edinburgh Park
Shawfair
Newtongrange
Eskbank
Gorbridge
Galashiels
Tweedbank
Polmont
Linlithgow

Making use of those £1 tickets I'm guessing?

 

[185143]

Making use of those £1 tickets I'm guessing?

65p as I've got a railcard!

 

[andyb2706]

7th March 2016
Aber
Bargoed
Eastbrook
Hengoed
Llanbradach
Llanharan
Pontypridd
Taffs Well

8th March 2016
Abercynon
Cogan
Dinas Powys
Lisvane & Thornhill
Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Vale
Pentre-Bach
Quakers Yard
Treforest Estate
Troed-y-Rhiw

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Posted in order of visiting, from my London jaunt, in order of visitation.

Five buses were involved, can you work out where?

8/3/16

Holloway Road
Manor House
Wood Green
Southgate
Oakwood
Cockfosters
Arnos Grove
Bounds Green
Bowes Park
Gordon Hill
Palmers Green
Haringey
Haringey Green Lanes
Walthamstow Queens Road
Wanstead Park
Forest Gate
Maryland
Stratford International (DLR)
Star Lane
West Ham (DLR)
London City Airport
Pontoon Dock
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Woolwich Arsenal (DLR)
Woolwich Arsenal (NR)
Barnehurst
Peckham Rye
Rotherhithe
Shoreditch High Street
Canonbury
Highbury and Islington
White Hart Lane
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
9/3/2016

Southbury
London Fields
Rectory Road
Hackney Downs
Hackney Central
Camden Road
Hampstead Heath
Finchley Road & Frognal
Kensal Rise
Kensal Green
Warwick Avenue
Edgware Road (Bakerloo)
Bayswater
White City
Wood Lane
West Ealing
Ruislip
Ruislip Manor
West Harrow
North Harrow
Northwood Hills
Watford (Metropolitan)
Pinner
Dollis Hill
Neasden
Kingsbury
Queensbury
Stanmore
Canons Park
Edgware
Colindale
Golders Green
Chalk Farm
Finchley Central
Mill Hill East
New Southgate
Alexandra Palace
Hornsey
Drayton Park
Essex Road
Barbican
Streatham Common
Kensington Olympia
Earlsfield
Raynes Park
Motspur Park
Chessington South
Chessington North

 

[FQ]

Wow!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

10/3/2016

Northumberland Park
Abbey Road
Stratford High Street
Canning Town (Jubilee)
North Greenwich
Bermondsey
Southwark
Streatham Hill
Balham (NR)
Balham (Northern)
Clapham South
Brixton (Victoria)
Brixton (NR)
Shortlands
Bromley North
Hither Green
Bexley
Charlton
Blackheath
Cannon Street (LU)
Mansion House

 

[crehld]

2 March 2016
Chapel-en-le-Frith
Disley
Dove Holes
Furness Vale
Middlewood
Strines

9 March 2016
Thanks to a little bit of disruption on Wednesday....
Rugby

 

[Kite159]

11/3

Roydon
Harlow Town
Sawbridgeworth
Harlow Mill
Bishops Stortford
Elsenham
Stansted Mountfitchet
Audley End
Newport
Great Chesterford
Shelford
Whittlesford Parkway
Waterbeach
Littleport
Downham Market
Watlington

West Anglia main line cleared... And the GTR empire complete

 

[FQ]

Holy moly! Well done!

 

[Kite159]

Holy moly! Well done!

Thanks

Now onto a Cambridge cruiser (starting from Ely) for some high speed 365 action!

 

[Segedunum]

12/03/16

Chiswick
Kew Bridge
Syon Lane
Isleworth
Feltham
Whitton
South Croydon
Purley Oaks
Wandsworth Road
Clapham High Street
Denmark Hill
Hackbridge
Mitcham Eastfields
Heron Quays DLR
South Quay DLR
Crossharbour DLR
Mudchute DLR
Island Gardens DLR
Westferry DLR
Limehouse

 

[Kite159]

12/3

Meldon Viaduct (Quarry) (Dartmoor Railway)

-------

13/3

Reedham (Norfolk)
Berney Arms
Brundall
Lingwood
Buckenham (According to the driver I was the first passenger he has ever stopped there for!)
Cantley
Brundall Gardens
Acle

 

[Segedunum]

14/3/16

Haydon Bridge
Haltwhistle
Brampton (Cumbria)
Wetheral

Tyne Valley complete!!

 

[Kite159]

14/3/16

Haydon Bridge
Haltwhistle
Brampton (Cumbria)
Wetheral

Tyne Valley complete!!

Congrats

 

[Gathursty]

Buckenham (According to the driver I was the first passenger he has ever stopped there for!)
Acle

Buckenham was a bugger for me to find. It didn't help that the fingerpost was pointing in the wrong direction a 1/2 mile away. When you get there you realise why it has so few passengers.

 

[Kite159]

Buckenham was a bugger for me to find. It didn't help that the fingerpost was pointing in the wrong direction a 1/2 mile away. When you get there you realise why it has so few passengers.

Although if I remember correctly when looking at train times, the easiest way (barring a walk/cycle/drive) to get it into the book is staying over Norwich (or Lowestoft) overnight, head out on the 09:46 to Norwich, alight at Buckenham, and ~ 20 minutes later put your hand out to stop the 10:17 Yarmouth to Norwich

 

[Segedunum]

Congrats

Cheers Kite, the ones west of Hexham except Haltwhistle are a damn faff. You can only really do them in the evening peak.

 

[Alex 2901]

Stations I've bee to in 2016:

-Wolverhampton
-Birmingham New Street
-Leicester
-Nuneaton
-Coventry
-Walsall
-Smethwick Galton Bridge
-The Hawthorns
-Leamington Spa
-Solihull
-Dorridge
-Derby
-Banbury
-Oxford

I think that's it at the moment, I'll probably be doing a few trips round to clear out a few more local stations at some point!

 

[FQ]

16/03/16
Hamstead
Bloxwich North
Bloxwich
Bescot Stadium
Lea Hall
Barnt Green
Longbridge

 

[Kite159]

16/03/16
Hamstead
Bloxwich North
Bloxwich
Bescot Stadium
Lea Hall
Barnt Green
Longbridge

Nice walk between the Bloxwich stations?

 

[FQ]

Sprint more like! I had a vague idea of where I was going and had 15 minutes to do it (the train from Brum was late) but made it in the end. With a headache!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

16/3/2016

Bootle Oriel Road
Bootle New Strand
Broad Green

 

[Techniquest]

Everyone seems to be getting Bootle Oriel Road in before me!

Now I've finished my trip report, I aim to have the notebook updated soon, then I'll be posting my shack scores from New York before too long. The moves book, Rail Miles, Your New Sights 2016, Red Pen 2016 and TripAdvisor all need updating too, but I am now nearly there!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Everyone seems to be getting Bootle Oriel Road in before me!

Yes. Wasn't a "cranking" trip, though! Hence only the three shacks

 

[Techniquest]

Booze cruise?

 

[crehld]

17 March 2016
Bromborough
Bromborough Rake
Eastham Rake

 

[Cletus]

19/03/16

Dollis Hill (Underground)
Neasden (Underground)
Willesden Green (Underground)
Belsize Park (Underground)
Northfields (Underground)
Acton Town (Underground)
Lancaster Gate (Underground)
Chancery Lane (Underground)

Streatham
Streatham Hill