Trivia: TOC 'Island' Routes

[Horizon22]

By this, I mean routes by which the origin and destination of the train does not interact with the TOC providing the service, nor is there any interchange to another service provided by that TOC.

I can think of a couple off the top of my head:

• GWR: Greenford - W. Ealing (no interchange with GWR services, only London Underground and TfL Rail)
• LO: Upminster - Romford (no interchange with other Overground services, only c2c, Greater Anglia, TfL Rail and Underground)

 

[Egg Centric]

Does the Island Line count?

And how about the Caledonian Sleeper?

 

[Doctor Fegg]

Barton-on-Humber to Cleethorpes is currently a Northern island except on Saturdays, when the Gainsborough service meets it.

You could presumably claim that the two ends of Crossrail are TfL Rail islands.

 

[Flange Squeal]

This recent thread may be of interest:

Trivia: Routes which are TOC enclaves or exclaves

The Romford to Upminster branch is operated by London Overground but is completely isolated from the rest of their network, no LO services connecting either station to any other LO operated route. Since privatisation have there ever been any other routes in Britain (excluding the IoW) which...

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[Horizon22]

This recent thread may be of interest:

Trivia: Routes which are TOC enclaves or exclaves

The Romford to Upminster branch is operated by London Overground but is completely isolated from the rest of their network, no LO services connecting either station to any other LO operated route. Since privatisation have there ever been any other routes in Britain (excluding the IoW) which...

www.railforums.co.uk

Ah thanks, wasn't sure there was a thread after searching briefly.

 

[Mag_seven]

This recent thread may be of interest:

Trivia: Routes which are TOC enclaves or exclaves

The Romford to Upminster branch is operated by London Overground but is completely isolated from the rest of their network, no LO services connecting either station to any other LO operated route. Since privatisation have there ever been any other routes in Britain (excluding the IoW) which...

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Please feel free to continue the discussion in the existing thread.

Trivia: Routes which are TOC enclaves or exclaves

The Romford to Upminster branch is operated by London Overground but is completely isolated from the rest of their network, no LO services connecting either station to any other LO operated route. Since privatisation have there ever been any other routes in Britain (excluding the IoW) which...

www.railforums.co.uk