Shack Attack 2016 (The Hammerhead Strikes Back)

[185143]

16th January
Tottenham Hale (LU)
Tottenham Hale (NR)
Canonbury
Dalston Junction
Haggerston
Hoxton
Shoreditch High Street
Shadwell
Wapping
Rotherhithe
Surrey Quays
New Cross Gate
Brockley
Forest Hill
Honor Oak Park
Sydenham
London Bridge
Queens Road Peckham
Peckham Rye
Clapham High Street
Wandsworth Road
Kensington Olympia
Imperial Wharf
Shepherd's bush
South Acton
Brondesbury
Brondesbury Park
Hampstead Heath
West Hampstead
Kentish Town West
Finchley Road and Frognal
Gospel Oak
Crouch Hill
Upper Holloway
South Tottenham
Harringay Green Lanes
Wanstead Park
Walthamstow Queens Road
Woodgrange Park
Blackhorse Road
Blackhorse Road (LU)
Walthamstow Central (LU)
Walthamstow Central
Hackney Downs
London Fields
Stamford Hill
Stoke Newington
Bruce Grove
White Hart Lane
Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters (LU)
Finsbury Park (LU)
Arsenal (LU)
Kings Cross St.Pancakes (LU)

 

[crehld]

16th January
Tottenham Hale (LU)
Tottenham Hale (NR)
Canonbury
Dalston Junction
Haggerston
Hoxton
Shoreditch High Street
Shadwell
Wapping
Rotherhithe
Surrey Quays
New Cross Gate
Brockley
Forest Hill
Honor Oak Park
Sydenham
London Bridge
Queens Road Peckham
Peckham Rye
Clapham High Street
Wandsworth Road
Kensington Olympia
Imperial Wharf
Shepherd's bush
South Acton
Brondesbury
Brondesbury Park
Hampstead Heath
West Hampstead
Kentish Town West
Finchley Road and Frognal
Gospel Oak
Crouch Hill
Upper Holloway
South Tottenham
Harringay Green Lanes
Wanstead Park
Walthamstow Queens Road
Woodgrange Park
Blackhorse Road
Blackhorse Road (LU)
Walthamstow Central (LU)
Walthamstow Central
Hackney Downs
London Fields
Stamford Hill
Stoke Newington
Bruce Grove
White Hart Lane
Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters (LU)
Finsbury Park (LU)
Arsenal (LU)
Kings Cross St.Pancakes (LU)

Someone likes travelling sideways

 

[FQ]

Nope. No Overground at all

 

[noddy1878]

19th January
North Wembley
Headstone Lane
South Kenton
Kensel Green
Harlesden
Stonebridge Park

Northern Line
East Finchley
Woodside Park
Finchley Central
West Finchley
High Barnet
Totteridge
Mill Hill East
Mornington Crescent

Bakerloo Line
North Wembley
South Kenton
Kensel Green
Harlesden
Stonebridge Park
Kilburn Park
Maida Vale
Warwick Avenue

 

[FQ]

15/01/16
Heaton Chapel

23/01/16
Rowley Regis
Acocks Green
Small Heath
Tyseley
Bordesley (Bicester North-Rowley Regis all done for shacks now)

Midland Metro:
Dartmouth Street
Lodge Road
Black Lake
Dudley Street
Wednesbury Great Western Street
Bradley Lane
Wednesbury Parkway
Bilston Central
Loxdale
The Crescent
Priestfield
Wolverhampton St Georges (Midland Metro cleared)

 

[Techniquest]

You'll have beaten me by a week to Bordesley!

 

[FQ]

I had a +3 today due to it being a match day at Birmingham City. How're you going to get it next week?

 

[Kite159]

I had a +3 today due to it being a match day at Birmingham City. How're you going to get it next week?

Cheat :P

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23/1:
Thorne North
Hatfield & Stainforth
Thorne South
Kirk Sandall
Elsecar
Chapeltown
Shepley
Dodworth
Denby Dale
Silkstone Common
Penistone

That's enough delightful pacer action for a few weeks

 

[FQ]

It worked! I have now scored the station and no one can deny it!

 

[Techniquest]

I intend to do it via the one service of the day on Saturday, ie the harder way. I can't have Saturdays off normally so I can't wait to get it the easy way.

Whether I walk to Bordesley and join the train there or alight from it and walk back into town remains to be seen!

 

[FQ]

Be careful when walking through that part of Brum. Very, very dodgy area.

Good luck though!

 

[Techniquest]

Cheers for the warning, I had a hunch it wasn't the nicest area. Might be on a Daytripper so would be happy to use a bus away from it!

 

[Kite159]

24/1:

Bilston Central
Black Lake
Bradley Lane
Bull Street
Dartmouth Street
Dudley Street Guns Village
Handsworth Booth Street
Kenrick Park
Lodge Road West Bromwich Town Hall
Loxdale
Priestfield
Soho Benson Road
St Paul's
The Crescent
The Royal
Trinity Way
Wednesbury Great Western Street
Wednesbury Parkway
West Bromwich Central
Winson Green Outer Circle

(All Midland Metro shacks, took me 3 and a half hours to do it all on a Sunday timetable (tram every 15 minutes)

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25/1

Bermuda Park
Coventry Arena

West Midlands completed again

 

[Techniquest]

Don't remind me Can't believe you beat me to winning shacks in the Midlands! This cannot be allowed to happen again!

25/01/2016

Bull Street (Midland Metro)

YTD: 62

 

[Kite159]

Don't remind me Can't believe you beat me to winning shacks in the Midlands! This cannot be allowed to happen again!

25/01/2016

Bull Street (Midland Metro)

YTD: 62

Maybe aim for them on Saturday after you do that certain shack outside Moor Street?

Looked like Coventry arena is covered by the network west midlands Daytripper area (owing to the station signs having the "N" logo on) so you probably only need a Coventry Arena - Bermuda Day Return, and either fester for an hour in one of the many shops/food outlets or try and get back to Coventry (or Canley) via bus(es)

 

[Techniquest]

I intend to do something about it on Saturday, however that also depends how tired I am by Bordesley. By then it may be a case of get home for food, coffee and bookwork!

26/01/2016

Brunstane
Drem
Dunfermline Town
Longniddry
Musselburgh
Prestonpans
Wallyford

YTD: 69

 

[adrock1976]

21/01/2016

Uddingston (as I saw my last required 380, and Scotrail electric fleet 380004 working a Glasgow Central - Lanark service)

26/01/2016

Kirknewton
Curriehill
Tweedbank
Stow
Galashiels (all stations in TD postcode complete - I unintentionally scored Berwick upon Tweed in 2006/7)
Bellshill
Nitshill
Priesthill & Darnley
Crossmyloof
Pollokshields West
Langside
Clarkston
Thorntonhall
Busby
Thornliebank
Kennishead

My first track bashing Gorebridge - Tweedbank for 2016

 

[Kite159]

Making use of the £1 specials Adam?

I'm surprised you haven't cleared everything in the SPT area

 

[adrock1976]

Making use of the £1 specials Adam?

I'm surprised you haven't cleared everything in the SPT area

I have indeed used the £1 specials

Although I've not scored every station in the SPT area, I've covered the track and have been on services that have called at all stations in the area. Of note, as I reside north of the mighty Clyde, I've not scored many intermediate stations south of the river.

I got a lot of the 318s, 320s, and 334s in 2014 during the Commonwealth Games when I was travelling to and from Partick, by means of linear hopping between Bellgrove and Partick.

Most of my 380s were cleared when travelling Glasgow Central - Paisley GS when visiting my partner. As I've cleared all of the electric fleet, I only require 4x170s, 17x156s, and 11x158s to clear the diesel fleet.

For 2016, my intention is to score the remaining stations in G, KA, ML, PA1 - 19, EH, FK (only require both Tyndrum stations), and KY postcode areas. All of this can be done with the SPT Daytripper (KA and PA1 -19) and Central Scotland Rover (EH/KY/ML). In my original neck of the woods of the West Midlands, I'm thinking of clearing mainly CV, as with the exception of Coventry, Leamington Spa, Rugby, and Stratford-upon-Avon, I've never scored any others in that postcode area.

 

[Techniquest]

Sounds like you'll be a busy bee when you come back to the Midlands! I've been mostly the opposite to you, most of my shack requirements are north of the Clyde, although I still need some south of the river mind.

27/01/2016

Armadale
Bathgate
Blackridge
Caldercruix
Cardenden
Cowdenbeath
Dunfermline Queen Margaret
Lochgelly
Rosyth
Slateford
Uphall

YTD: 80

Outside the SPT Daytripper area, the only shacks I need in the Central Scotland rover area are now Addiewell and Breich. Those two *should* be done tomorrow!

 

[A4geek]

22/01/2016

Airdrie
Armadale
Bathgate
Bellgrove
Blackridge
Blairhill
Caldercruix
Carntyne
Coatbridge Sunnyside
Coatdyke
Drumgelloch
Easterhouse
Edinburgh Park
Garrowhill
High Street
Livingston North
Shettleston
Uphall
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Jaunt around the Tyne and Wear Metro

25/01/2016

Brockley Whins
East Boldon
Fellgate
Felling
Gateshead Stadium
Pelaw
St Peter's
Seaburn
Stadium of Light

26/01/16

Bede
Hebburn
Jarrow
Millfield
Pallion
Park Lane
South Hylton
Sunderland
University

14 of the blighters left to visit

 

[iainbhx]

Cheers for the warning, I had a hunch it wasn't the nicest area. Might be on a Daytripper so would be happy to use a bus away from it!

As someone who used to work right next to Bordesley station for four years and a resident of Birmingham for over 20 years, as long as you are planning to walk from Bordesley to the city centre in the daytime and go along the main road, it is not dodgy at all. In the evening you might encounter drunks around Digbeth.

Now if you were planning on walking to Small Heath, then please ask for directions - although again, during the daytime, you'd be fine.

 

[crehld]

28 January 2016
Broad Green
Burnley Barracks
Burnley Manchester Road
Cherry Tree
Euxton Balshaw Lane
Mill Hill
Newton-le-Willows
Pleasington
Whiston

 

[andyb2706]

29th January 2016
Alfreton
Chesterfield
Dronfield
Fitzwilliam
Goole
Swinton (S. Yorks)

 

[noddy1878]

27th January

Lye
Lea Hall
Bloxwich North
Bloxwich
Walsall
Perry Barr

Midland Metro

Wednesbury Great Western
Black Lake
Loxdale
Bradley Lane
Priestfield
The Crescent
The Royal
Bliston Central
Dartmouth Street
Dudley Street
Lodge Road
West Bromwich Central
Kendrick Park
Trinity Way
Handworth Booth Street

 

[Techniquest]

As someone who used to work right next to Bordesley station for four years and a resident of Birmingham for over 20 years, as long as you are planning to walk from Bordesley to the city centre in the daytime and go along the main road, it is not dodgy at all. In the evening you might encounter drunks around Digbeth.

Now if you were planning on walking to Small Heath, then please ask for directions - although again, during the daytime, you'd be fine.

I had a hunch I'd be fine on the main road, shall see what happens tomorrow.

28/01/2016

Addiewell (last shack outside the Daytripper area on the Central Scotland rover to get!)
Breich (see the trip report thread on Sunday when it's all up to see how this one fell)

YTD: 82

 

[55013]

January 2016:

Aberdovey
Abererch
Apperley Bridge
Barmouth
Berry Brow
Bodorgan
Bordesley
Borth
Criccieth
Denby Dale
Dovey Junction
East Garforth
Fairbourne
Harlech
Honley
Llandnwg
Llanfair PG
Llwyngwril
Lockwood
Marsden
Morfa Mawddach
Penistone
Pontefract Baghill
Porthmadog
Pwllheli
Rugeley Trent Valley
Shepley
Stocksmoor
Tonfanau
Tygwyn
Ulleskelf

Sheffield Supertram:
Arbourthorne
Beighton
Birley Lane
Birley Moor Road
Crystal Peaks
Donetsk Way
Gleadless Townend
Granville Road
Hackenthorpe
Halfway
Herdings Park
Hollinsend
Leighton Road
Manor Top
Moss Way
Park Grange
Park Grange Croft
Sheffield Station
Spring Lane
Waterthorpe
Westfield
White Lane

Total: 53, not a bad start to the year.

 

[andyb2706]

30th January 2016
East Midlands Parkway
Hucknall
Lincoln Central
Mansfield
Newstead
Sleaford

 

[Cletus]

30/01/16
Manor House (Underground)
Arsenal (Underground)
Dalston Kingsland
Hackney Central
Cambridge Heath
Monument (Underground) (sure I've been there before though)
Bow Road (Underground) (hello Diamond Geezer!)
Bow Church (DLR)
Langdon Park (DLR)
Devons Road (DLR)
Cutty Sark (DLR)
Maze Hill
Charlton
Westcombe Park
Woolwich Dockyard
Purley Oaks
George Street (Tramlink)
Centrale (Tramlink)

 

[Techniquest]

30/01/2016

Alfreton
Bordesley (finally!)
Langley Mill

YTD: 85