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Trivia - the closest rail to you that you've never been a passenger on?

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ForTheLoveOf

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New North Main Line (Acton - South Ruislip).
No longer open any more, this being the reason for Chiltern's Parly being diverted to West Ealing. However, you'll be able to take the same route when HS2 opens, as the construction of HS2 is the reason for the closure!
 
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Camp Hill line, given it's only used by express XC services and I have never had a need to go south with them, I've sadly never used it. Given first stop is Cheltenham Spa, quite a long journey to do just for the track.

1M07 1544 Worcester Shrub Hill to Birmingham New Street uses the Camp hill line.

My nearest "not-yet-been-a-passenger-on" line is the Kingsbury Junction to Whitacre junction stretch, less than a mile away. There are several passenger services booked that way, but not at a time that I normally travel. I will probably do it some time in the future.
 

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I’m in Glasgow and for some reason have never been on the Stirling - Alloa line. After that my next closest missing passenger track is either the Bishop Auckland branch or Heysham.
 

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From Newport Pagnell, my nearest un-traversed line is the new curve at Bicester about 21 miles. Then the Enfield Town branch about twice as far at 42 miles.

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Actually, just remembered I had an aborted trip to Aylesbury Vale Parkway about 17 miles and haven't tried again.
 

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I live in the US but the family home is on the Tattenham Corner line and my brother lives in Old Coulsdon. And I visit 2-3 times a year.

And with decades of taking the Caterham/Tattenham Corner (Cat/Tatt) which splits at Purley, I’ve never traveled on the Caterham branch.
 

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Until I saw this thread I didn't realise how many places I have been to by train. I'm inclined to say along the lines of Wimbledon - Mitcham Junction via Sutton, Northern line Tooting Broadway to Morden, Central line Woodford to Epping...?

Excluding preservation bits, I think the nearest bits of track to me that I need are the Ebbw Vale branch, Stourbridge Junction to Droitwich Spa, everything west of Shrewsbury* and the Soham line.

*That should change this summer...
They are all quite spaced out from each other. You must be quite the track basher I take it haha!
 

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I spent the first 19 and last 15 years of my life in Brum or the Black Country with a nomadic existence in the 10 or so years in between. I think the closest routes I've never travelled on are Worcester to Oxford and Craven Arms to Hereford.
 

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Closest route I've never travelled on is Preston to Ormskirk (in common with some other posters) - about 11 miles away.

Apart from this I've travelled over most current passenger lines in the northwest, including curves & chords that need a bit of planning (e.g. Hadfield to Dinting direct, Heald Green to Styal direct) EXCEPT never done Ordsall Lane to Manchester Victoria (Deal Street Jn) and the new Ordsall Curve.

[Correction] Just remembered I did Man Vic to Bangor several times in the 1970s - Mk1 compo with Class 40 haulage - how could I forget that!
But I still need to cover the West Curve at Earlestown (through platform 3), 6 miles distant, plus the Ordsall Curve itself.
 
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Jordanhill west-north chord for me. As far as I can tell it's only used by occasional ECS moves.
 

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Currently live in South London. I intend to bash every line in the UK that is possible, and have completed most of it (including NI) except the EMT network and parts of Lancashire/Yorkshire. So the nearest line with a regular service I haven't taken is Kettering to Corby (around 90 miles away).

The nearest line with an irregular service is probably some of the diversionary routes around London, but I don't really know how to record this properly as the tracks and junctions are so complicated. According to PSUL, I probably haven't taken the Cally sleeper east coast diversionary route, which I don't see any point in bashing as it would only ever happen in darkness. Based on a recent thread I also haven't taken Thameslink to StP high level, but I haven't checked whether the route is substantially different from EMT.
 

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Camp Hill line, given it's only used by express XC services and I have never had a need to go south with them, I've sadly never used it. Given first stop is Cheltenham Spa, quite a long journey to do just for the track.

Living in Birmingham -- I'm in the same boat. However, being a bit sloppy about these matters, and tending to think broadly in terms of "routes, rather than minutiae" (the Branch Line Society would disown me), I'm apt to consider the Camp Hill line a sort of long curve, rather than a pukka rail stretch, and not to feel too bothered about it. That one aside: my closest un-travelled section must be Coventry to Nuneaton.
 

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For me (living in Duisburg, Germany), it's the freight only line to the local steelworks about 1.58 km (slightly less than a mile) away from home at its closest point.
Yet, I have been a passenger inside the steelworks itself when they had an open day about fifteen years ago.

In the UK, it should work out to Lowestoft station about 365 km away from home.
 

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clitheroe - hellifield
Then Preston -Blackburn
Nelson-Todmorden
Carnforth avoiding line. think its closed now.
lancaster -Bare Lane. last time i went to Morecambe by train they didnt go via lancaster. Havent been to Heysham Port either.
Shipley -Guiseley via Baildon.
The curve in Leeds from Shipley towards Woodlesford avoiding the station
 

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They are all quite spaced out from each other. You must be quite the track basher I take it haha!

I'm in Epsom and I've been an enthusiast for 40 years... so surely the greater surprise is that I haven't got the entire network yet?
 

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Passenger: Doncaster-Lincoln Line
Freight: Hillsborough and Wadsley Bridge on the Sheffield-Stocksbridge line are within 2 miles of my house. I'm booked to cover that line this year.
Heritage: Elsecar Heritage Railway which I plan to visit sometime this year.
 

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Chester - Newton-le-Willows
I would include Northwich - Sandbach but that's only used by frieght & diversions so doesn't count IMO.
 

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Altrincham-Hale, which is actually the closest bit of active railway to where I live. I used Hale for the odd occasion I've travelled on the CLC line to Chester, otherwise I use Metrolink. I've also never travelled from Navigation Road to Stockport, but am intending to do so in June for a day trip to Sheffield.
 

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Strawberry Hill to Fulwell; it's only used a couple of times each way a day with rush-hour Shepperton to Waterloo via Richmond services. It's also one of the very few lengths of running line, perhaps the only length, around here that still has bullhead track.
 

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Living in Crewe, I think the nearest NR track I haven't been on is the Todmorden curve. Closest non NR is probably the Media City stub of Metrolink. As for heritage rail, possible Carrog - Corwen on the Llangollen line (unless you count Rudyard Lake Railway), and though I have been on the train from Matlock to Rowsley, that was before the line closed in 1968 !

Also in Crewe; nearest (I think) would be Stone to Colwich - about 25 miles away?

One day I shall go to London via Stoke just to do it.

And will - no doubt - find it's shut for some reason and end up going via Stafford! :D
 

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Also in Crewe; nearest (I think) would be Stone to Colwich - about 25 miles away?

One day I shall go to London via Stoke just to do it.

And will - no doubt - find it's shut for some reason and end up going via Stafford! :D
I was the same until very recently, whereupon a train delay meant I had no choice but to go via Hixon and "double back" to Stafford, as the last itinerary of the day.
 

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London:
The approaches to London Bridge from New Cross Gate and Queens Road Peckham since re-modelling.

Edinburgh:
Dalmeny Junction to Winchburgh Junction.
The South Suburban Lines.
 
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