Mornington Crescent - Return Ticket

Piglet · June 1

Well, if we're heading north (Keflavik isn't actually in the Arctic Circle, but we shan't split hairs):

Trondheim, which is the furthest north I've ever been.

Baptist Trainfan · June 1

I've never been further (by train) than Aberdeen.

Curiosity killed · June 1

I've been up as far as Thurso - and to the A&E there. It was that sort of holiday.

Baptist Trainfan · June 1

I suppose we'll have to go in the opposite direction: Helston.

Piglet · June 2

Sadly, we're too late for the Furry Dance. We happened to be there several years ago at the right time of year (early May) - it was rather fun!

Anyway, I digress. When we were there, we were en route to Truro.

Marsupial · June 6

I’m a bit surprised to learn that the other Truro still has an operating railway station.

Baptist Trainfan · June 6

Hmm ... "Service suspended until further notice".

Marsupial · June 7

Probably because the train runs from Montreal into the Atlantic bubble, which is not do-able these days. You can’t get there from here right now.

I didn’t realize Truro NS was such an important railway town in its earlier days. Stratford (Ont.) is better known for Shakespeare these days but started life as an important Ontario railway town.

Pendragon · July 12

As I could have legitimately gone there this morning:

Peartree

Marsupial · July 12

Partridge Green

Baptist Trainfan · July 12

Steyning

Piglet · July 12

Ingatestone

Baptist Trainfan · July 12

Port Victoria.

Marsupial · July 14

Kisumu

Net Spinster · July 14

Grays

Baptist Trainfan · July 14

White City

Curiosity killed · July 14

Palmers Green

Baptist Trainfan · July 14

Redbridge.

Curiosity killed · July 14

Greenhithe for Bluewater

Baptist Trainfan · July 14

[Now that was clever!]

Piglet · July 14

Faversham

Net Spinster · July 14

Evesham

Baptist Trainfan · July 14

Ham Street & Orlestone

Marsupial · July 15

Desperate times, desperate measures…

Aachen

la vie en rouge · July 15

Paris Nord

Baptist Trainfan · July 15

North Weald.

Curiosity killed · July 15

Northwood

(North Weald is heritage railway now, old diesel and steam trains.)

Baptist Trainfan · July 15

Indeed so. Southfields - but you've missed the tennis!

la vie en rouge · July 15

The Wombles are still there though.

Tobermorey

Baptist Trainfan · July 15

Hmm ... wrong sort of station, I fear (sheep, not trains).

Marsupial · July 15

Shepherd’s Bush

Piglet · July 15

Hammersmith

jrw · July 15

Nailsea and Backwell - puts us in kvtls4, but we're all quite experienced at this game now so perhaps it's time to raise the bar slightly.

Baptist Trainfan · July 15

If you say so. Dollis Hill.

Net Spinster · July 16

South Croydon for a back slip.

Curiosity killed · July 16

South Wimbledon - skimming round the tram system to what's really Merton, and was named that originally: there are signs around showing the earlier name.

Baptist Trainfan · July 16

North Woolwich - on the wrong side of the river really!

Marsupial · July 17

Which naturally takes us right back when to Shepherd’s Bush.

Curiosity killed · July 17

Goldhawk Road is more convenient for the market and fabric shops there. Shepherd's Bush gets you to Westfield and the theatre, more.

Heavenlyannie · July 17

Gold Hawks will be better served by going to Hatton Garden so Chancery Lane it is

Net Spinster · July 18

Roding Valley for a snooze

Curiosity killed · July 18

Too slow getting a tube there, just walk up through the nature reserve and through a park to Buckhurst Hill

(Not that anyone is likely to be interested but the oldest local geocache is found there, dates back to February 2002)

Piglet · July 19

Sorry, CK - you absolutely walked into that one:

Dollis Hill

Net Spinster · July 20

Traverse to Clogwyn Station. Let's see someone climb out of that.

Marsupial · July 23

Or maybe further away to Canfranc.

Baptist Trainfan · July 23

Jungfraujoch - surely the highest underground station in the world (and possibly the most expensive to get to!)

jrw · July 23

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

That brought us down to earth with a thud, didn't it.

Baptist Trainfan · July 23

It did. Now start us off again, please!

Marsupial · July 23

In order to complete our collective déjà-vu, King’s Cross.

(See pages 25-26 for the exact same sequence…)

Net Spinster · July 24

Estación Central/Taypi Uta in La Paz, part of the Mi Teleférico

Ship of Fools

Mornington Crescent - Return Ticket

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