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Trivia: Full Coast-to-Coast diagrams?

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There used to be a Hartlepool to Whitehaven, then Nunthorpe to Whitehaven and finally Newcastle to Whitehaven but I think those have all stopped now.
 
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Mag_seven said:
Its not quite East Coast to West Coast but the Aberdeen to Penzance service (1V60 0820 Aberdeen to Penzance) goes from the East Coast to the South Coast. I would argue that this is the longest "coast to coast" service in the UK.
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I don’t think there’s any XC services to/from north of Newcastle that stop at Weston-Super-Mare. However Aberdeen/Edinburgh/ Berwick to Plymouth/Penzance all pass through Highbridge & Burnham (-on-Sea) which I would say qualifies as West Coast.

A shorter coast to coast journey would be Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin
 
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Services through the Channel Tunnel go from the south coast of England to the north coast of France...
 
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kieron said:
I don't know diagrams, but I can think of a couple of individual services which see more than one coast.

The 17:13 from Kyle of Lochalsh to Elgin starts on the west coast, and stops at Nairn on the north coast east of Inverness.

The 10:41 from Holyhead to Llanelli starts on the north coast of Holy Island and ends on the south coast of Wales.
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None of the South Wales stations are on the coast.
 
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No way can Hull be considered to be on the coast.
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I'm just old enough to remember this happening
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/john-gummer-turns-hull-into-a-seaside-resort-1439824.html

John Gummer turns Hull into a seaside resort
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HULL has been transformed into a seaside resort at a stroke of John Gummer's pen - to the surprise and anger of its citizens.

The Environment Secretary has performed this bizarre geographical shuffle to enable privatised Yorkshire Water to escape an obligation to build a pounds 200m new sewage works to clean up the city's pollution.


By arbitrarily moving Britain's coastline and declaring more than 30 miles of the River Humber to be open sea, Mr Gummer made it possible for the company to side-step the provisions of a new European directive designed to clean up Europe's worst water pollution blackspots.
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So Hull is in fact officially on the coast - since 1994!
 
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That opens a whole can of worms. Lancaster. Gloucester, Newark (Well 8 miles north of), Ulleskelf, York (4,5 miles at Acaster Mabis), Temple Hurst Jct, Truro, Preston, Warrington, Dolgellau.
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The 17:13 from Kyle of Lochalsh to Elgin starts on the west coast, and stops at Nairn on the north coast east of Inverness.
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Given that Inverness has a harbour, I reckon you reach the East coast there, on several services a day.
 
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In Central days following privatisation there was a through service from Aberystwyth to Grimsby
 
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DanTrainMan185 said:
None of the South Wales stations are on the coast
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Swansea surely? It's not the station that has to be on the coast but the town.

So we have: Atlantic Ocean to North Sea; North Sea to Channel; Celtic Sea to Channel; Irish Sea to Celtic Sea.

The closest to North Sea - Irish Sea we have is Hull - Liverpool.
 
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The Campbelltown and Machrihanish Light Railway surely epitomised an ‘East Coast to West Coast’ philosophy? Sadly no longer with us.
 
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Douglas to Port Erin on the Isle of Man railway. Steam operated from east to west coasts in about an hour.
 
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PaulLothian said:
Given that Inverness has a harbour, I reckon you reach the East coast there, on several services a day.
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I thought about that, then I started worrying about whether the Moray Firth might resemble a river there with all the water which flows into it. Nairn just seemed safer, once I'd checked how far the trains from Kyle go.
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Swansea surely? It's not the station that has to be on the coast but the town.
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I haven't seen it myself, but apparently there's also a beach in Llanelli by the north dock. It's supposed to look a bit like this.
 
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It's a bit iffy to describe Newcastle as coastal really, although the Tyneside connurbation does have coast so it depends what you consider the destination of the service.
 
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cuccir said:
It's a bit iffy to describe Newcastle as coastal really, although the Tyneside connurbation does have coast so it depends what you consider the destination of the service.
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River Tyne is tidal up to Wylam.
 
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It's the longest TRAIN service in the uk let alone coast to coast!
Mag_seven said:
Its not quite East Coast to West Coast but the Aberdeen to Penzance service (1V60 0820 Aberdeen to Penzance) goes from the East Coast to the South Coast. I would argue that this is the longest "coast to coast" service in the UK.
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In the mid-late 90s there used to be Blackpool North - Scarborough which was properly Irish Sea - North Sea. It was then truncated to Blackpool North - York.
 
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kieron said:
I thought about that, then I started worrying about whether the Moray Firth might resemble a river there with all the water which flows into it. Nairn just seemed safer, once I'd checked how far the trains from Kyle go.

I haven't seen it myself, but apparently there's also a beach in Llanelli by the north dock. It's supposed to look a bit like this.
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Funny you should bring this up - it’s one of the very few places mentioned on here that I (OP) have visited! I can vouch that there is indeed that beach there, and it’s nice!
 
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