Which lines do you plan to do in 2013?

[Tomonthetrain]

Exactly what is says really.I'm wondering what lines people are hoping to travel on, or cross off in 2013?

I've got a few on my list like

Settle & Carlisle
The remainder of the Valley Lines
Isle of Wight railways
West Highland Line
Most of the Overground

These are my priorities, but I'm hoping to travel to some extra new places in the process of completing these - so should have some interesting trip reports to post.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I need:
Middlesbrough-Whitby (NR)
Crainlarich-Oban (NR)
Surrey Quays-Queens Rd Peckham (NR)
Oldham Mumps-Shaw & Crompton (ML)
Turnham Green-Acton Town (LUL District)

... That's it! Apart from that it will be PSULs, the odd crossover and any railtours!

 

[12CSVT]

Surrey Quays - Queens Road Peckham (if I don't do it in 2012)
Hitchin flyover (due to open 2013)
Various Manchester Metrolink extensions

Any other track I need is confined to diversions, railtours and preserved line extensions.

 

[SS4]

I want to get the WMDR area covered once and for all.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

I intend to do the following in 2013:

Snow hill line from Smethwick GB-Stratford upon avon/Dorridge
Cotswold line from Paddington-Hereford or at least Oxford to Gt Malvern
Borderlands line end to end (Wrexham Central-Bidston)
Whole of the Mersyerail Northern Line
West and East coastway
HS1
Bristol-Weymouth
Cambrian Coast line
Cumbrian Coast line
S&C (hoping to do this on a diverted Virgin service)
HoW line

So quite a bit to do but I will do them at one point

 

[317666]

The Heart of Wales, Rhymney and Maesteg Valley Lines, Dovey Junction - Aberystwyth, Porthmadog - Pwllheli, Wrexham General - Shrewsbury via Gobowen, the last bits of the ECML and WCML I need (Chathill - Edinburgh Waverley and Gretna Junction - Glasgow Central respectively), and the new Oldham Metrolink extension.

 

[radamfi]

Fyra between Amsterdam and Brussels.
Lelystad to Zwolle.

 

[telstarbox]

Tyne Valley Line (Carlisle-Newcastle), the ECML north of York, Merseyrail, and hopefully some lines in the South West and East Anglia which I've barely scratched.

 

[221129]

The Cornish Main Line from Truro - Penzance.
All The Cornish Branches.
Crediton - Okehampton.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

The Cornish Main Line from Truro - Penzance.
All The Cornish Branches.

Can be done on a Ride Cornwall ranger. £7.50 for a child £10 adult.
That ticket is valid from Plymouth Down and on the Gunnislake line

The Cornish branches are really good as well having completed them all in the Summer, I can safely say they are really good

 

[ACE1888]

Wales, all lines hopefully in August

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Wales, all lines hopefully in August

Will that involve getting the daily 6:00 Penzance-Cardiff which is 6 hours 18 minutes on a class 150, and if you're lucky a class 150/1 with 3+2 seating

 

[trentside]

I'm looking to make some inroads into Scotland, the South West and the North West this year - I'd also like to make more progress with Wales too. Now I have a more stable source of income, I can afford to look at taking a few days away to get further afield.

 

[Chapeltom]

No guarantees but would like to do:

Calverdale Line
Penistone Line
Habrough to Cleethorpes
Doncaster to York
Pontefract Baghill to York
Matlock branch
Doncaster to Gainsborough L.R
Heart of Wales
Welsh Marches Line
Bidston to Wrexham
Crewe to Kidsgrove

 

[Aictos]

I've not decided in what order I'm going to complete the routes I need but fair to say there will be some interesting routes planned that mostly are photogenic

 

[33056]

Haven't given 2013 too much thought yet but will go and do the new bit of the "Overground" soon then it will be off to Slovenia and Croatia to try and mop up as many bits of track as possible that we didn't manage in our recent visits.

We also have tentative plans for a vist to the Harz where a priority will be the line between Eisfelder Talmühle and Stiege and the loop at the latter which will clear the track on that system.

 

[jnjkerbin]

Don't really know tbh.

I'd like to do the rest of London Overground, make a sizeable dent in the WCML and try and get the ECML north of Darlington done! Also West of England Mainline between Axminster and Exeter is required. MML would be good as well!

I wonder how much of that I'll have done by this time next year!

Joe

 

[Chapeltom]

No guarantees but would like to do:

Calverdale Line
Penistone Line
Habrough to Cleethorpes
Doncaster to York
Pontefract Baghill to York
Matlock branch
Doncaster to Gainsborough L.R
Heart of Wales
Welsh Marches Line
Bidston to Wrexham
Crewe to Kidsgrove

Calverdale Line
Penistone Line

Did both of these on Tuesday, had to go fetch something from Huddersfield so did a South Pennines Day Ranger

 

[TrainBoy98]

HS1 and a large chunk of cornwall/devon and all of Wales

 

[FGW_Lad]

East London Line to Clapham Junction
Remainder of West Coast Mainline from Preston to Glasgow

 

[Requeststop]

Paddington - Carmarthen
All Pembrokeshire
All of South Wales except Ebbw Vale (don't have the time)
Cardiff - Manchester Pic via Shrewsbury
Manchester Pic to Leeds
Leeds - Carlisle
Carlisle - Glasgow via Dumfries
West Highland Lines
South of the Clyde:
Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Largs, Ardrossan Harbour branches
Glasgow - Stranraer
Glasgow - Crewe
Crewe - Derby
Derby - Norwich
Norwich - Sheringham
Norwich - Yarmouth (Both routes)
Norwich - Lowestoft
Lowestoft - Ipswich - Felixstowe
Ipswich - Norwich
Norwich - Cambridge
Cambridge - Kings Lynn
Kings Lynn - Kings Cross

Maybe one or two (uncovered) London lines if the time allows
Got My BritRail Pass for 8 days in late February. Sent to me from China for some weird reason.

 

[LE Greys]

Finish off the ends of the Tube, the Met and the Overground
Various Southern lines, especially South London and Kent
Finally the West Anglia Lines
Remaining bits of Great Eastern
London, Tilbury & Southend (option to do the Tilbury Ferry)

 

[317 forever]

London Overground from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction
Tarka Line
Penistone Line
Grand Central from Halifax to Pontefract
Metrolink Victoria-Rochdale, Piccadilly-Droylsden and St Werburgh's Road-East Didsbury (if it opens next summer)
London Midland class 139 and 172 in Stourbridge

 

[90sWereBetter]

I plan to do the GOBLIN some time in February. I just have to find Walthamstow Queens Road station first, it's tucked out of the way in the back streets of Walthamstow.

I'll probably try and do the Greenford Branch Line and the Upminister Branch Line as well.

 

[Techniquest]

Having conquered virtually all of the UK and Ireland rail networks (not including light/freight/heritage rail of course), my list is pretty much just PSUL stuff. Need to go through that with a fine tooth comb at some point in January and plan journeys, but there's only a few little bits on SET, one on EMT and one on Northern that I know of that need to be done.

Spreading my wings into mainland Europe somewhat is another goal for 2013, although where I have no idea.

Other than that, finishing the Metrolink system would be nice. As would finally getting up to Newcastle to spend the day doing the Tyne and Wear Metro system at last. Finally, getting at least one heritage line done would be nice too.

All relatively easy goals and a most basic mileage target of just 2,500 miles.

 

[gnolife]

I'm planning on doing my first ALR in June, so I'm hoping, at the very least to do
Far North Line
West Highland Line
Highland Main Line - this is one I've actually done before, but I had a guard pestering me from Inverness to not far short of Stirling, so I missed anything interesting scenery wise
Rhosneigr - Holyhead
Llandudno - Blaenau Ffestiniog
Pwllheli - Machynlleth
Hereford - Oxford
Reading - London Paddington
London Liverpool Street - Norwich
Norwich - Great Yarmouth (Both Routes)
Reedham - Lowestoft
Lowestoft - Ipswich
Manningtree - Harwich Town
Colchester - Walton-on-the-Naze
Thorpe-le-Soken - Clacton-in-Sea
Marks Tey - Sudbury
Witham - Braintree
Shenfield - Southend Victoria
Wickford - Southminster
Shoeburyness - London Fenchurch Street
Upminster - Pitsea via Chafford Hundred
Grays - Barking via Dagenham Dock
London Cannon Street to Lewisham via Deptford and Bexleyheath
Lewisham - Strood via Bexley
Strood - Paddock Wood
Paddock Wood - Ashford Intl
Ashford Intl - Ramsgate
Margate - Dover Priory
Dover Priory - Faversham
Faversham - London St Pancras
Ebbsfieet Intl - Ashford Intl
Ashford Intl - Brighton
Brighton - London Bridge
London Bridge - London Waterloo East
London Waterloo - Exeter St Davids
Exeter Central - Exmouth
Exeter St Davids - Barnstaple
Exeter St Davids - Paignton
Newton Abbot - Plymouth
Plymouth - Gunnislake
Plymouth - Liskeard
Liskeard - Looe
Liskeard - Par
Par - Newquay
Par - Truro
Truro - Falmouth Docks
Truro - St Erth
St Ives - Penzance
Didcot Parkway - Severn Tunnel Junction
Telford Central - Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury - Swansea via Sugar Loaf
Swansea - Milford Haven
Clarbeston Road - Fishguard Harbour
Whitland - Pembroke Dock
Swansea - Bridgend

 

[Lrd]

I need one curve till I have completed the Southern network (almost got it done a few weeks ago but the one train a day was cancelled within a few minutes of departure time ).

Need to focus on Southeastern, Anglia and probably North Wales and North West England and ideally the far outreaches of Scotland but being based in Southampton is far from ideal.

 

[MattRobinson]

Wakefield - Sheffield (via Bolton on Dearne, Barnsley and Doncaster)
Wakefield - Keighley
Wakefield - Gatwick Airport

Anywhere else I need to go.

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[Temple Meads]

All the Cornish branches bar Gunnislake and Looe.
St Erth to Penzance.
Some of the Valley lines branches.
The London Overground network.
The DLR network.
Castle Cary to Weymouth.

Maybe Pembroke Dock if finances allow..

 

[radamfi]

How do you decide if you have 'done' a line?

Does it matter if you haven't seen both sides of the route?

Does it matter if there is visibility is poor so, for example, you can't see the tops of mountains? Do you allow nighttime travel?

What if you fall asleep during some of the route?