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Trivia: Shortest regular end-to-end timetabled service?

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Howardh

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Not distance between stations!
Thinking from the start of the journey to completion (terminus to terminus) which are the shortest regular timetabled journeys (a) distance (b) time?

It probably isn't anywhere near, but Oxenholme-Windermere is quite short, as is Ryde to Shanklin (?) on the IOW.

Might be some branch lines in the SW which have very short distances?
Anyone??
 
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Not distance between stations!
Thinking from the start of the journey to completion (terminus to terminus) which are the shortest regular timetabled journeys (a) distance (b) time?

It probably isn't anywhere near, but Oxenholme-Windermere is quite short, as is Ryde to Shanklin (?) on the IOW.

Might be some branch lines in the SW which have very short distances?
Anyone??

Brighton to Hove. 4 mins. Shuttle service every 30 mins. (14/44)
 

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Cardiff Queen Street to Cardiff Bay, 1 Mile (just over) about 4 minutes from end to end. Does that count?

Stourbridge Town to Stourbridge Junction, 0.8 Miles ? about 3 minutes from End to end.
 

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Here we go again!

Following citation of Brighton-Hove I trump with Hastings-Ore (Ore 0949 - Hastings 0952; Hastings 0957 - Ore 1000) 72 chains and 3 minutes. Then someone comes up with something else and we end I remember not where; but when we do, we all go "Yes, of course, that's the usual conclusion".

So over to the next player!

Whoops - some posters have already gone out of turn.
 
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Here we go again!

Following citation of Brighton-Hove I trump with Hastings-Ore (Ore 0949 - Hastings 0952; Hastings 0957 - Ore 1000) 72 chains and 3 minutes. Then someone comes up with something else and we end I remember not where; but when we do, we all go "Yes, of course, that's the usual conclusion".

So over to the next player!

Whoops - some posters have already gone out of turn.
Hey, Ore - Hastings is my trump card! I'm the one who lives there! ;)
 

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Don't know distance but Deal to Walmer is also 3 minutes.
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Even better Seven Sisters to Bruce Grove 2 minutes.
 

Howardh

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Are these really terminus to terminus trains? If so, impressive!
 

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I normally suggest Redhill-Reigate, but I can't seem to find any of those timetabled for 3 minutes any more (I think there was one once upon a time).
 

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Cardiff Queen Street to Cardiff Bay, 1 Mile (just over) about 4 minutes from end to end. Does that count?

Stourbridge Town to Stourbridge Junction, 0.8 Miles ? about 3 minutes from End to end.

Cardiff Bay and Stourbridge running times are 3 minutes not 4
There is a way to check this out first be referring to RTT
 
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Cardiff Queen Street to Cardiff Bay, 1 Mile (just over) about 4 minutes from end to end. Does that count?

Stourbridge Town to Stourbridge Junction, 0.8 Miles ? about 3 minutes from End to end.

I agree with these, sure we've been here before though? We maybe need a RailUK Forums "Guinness Book of Records" page!
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Being from Llandudno Junction I would think Llandudno Junction to Llandudno qualifies as one of the shortest trips with an intermediate stop, that being Deganwy
 

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You couldn't agree with the quote as I've already corrected them. I'm sure, as you say, we've had it all before.
 

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I thought Hythe to Colchester Town was fairly short - a mere 79 chains, yet it takes four minutes.
 

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Hastings - Ore does not count, that just a short hop from one station to the next. No trains just run Hastings to Ore, they either run Victoria to Ore or Brighton to Ore or VV. But Brighton to Hove is run by at least two trains per hour that only run Brighton to Hove and return.

so, ner, ner, ner, ner ner. :lol:
 

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ooops

Thats an Eastbourne job, does not count as a real train.;)

I wonder what it is for? There seems to be no point just sending a train from Ore to Hastings. I will have to quiz the staff on this one.

I think that it is the only regular Southern service to use Platform 1 at Hastings. So I think that route knowledge is the reason along with the fact that the service gets the class 313 out of the way at Ore before it runs back to Brighton.
 
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It provides a connection into the 0958 Hastings - Victoria (which most hours starts from Ore).
 
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