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There's another two, 'Stansted Express' and 'Go Discover'.

The winner there would be the original City & South London Railway from Stockwell to King William Street, 3.2 miles. The original CLR was a few miles longer.

WAGN named a few 317s: 317345 - Driver John Webb 317348 - Richard A Jenner 317654 - Richard Wells 317709 - Len Camp 317723 - The Tottenham Flyer 317507 and 892 were additionally named under ONE/NXEA (Cambridge University 800 Years and Ilford Depot respectively). Of the above only 348 and 507...

I'd say 317s and 365s in equal measure! My earliest train memory is travelling on a newly refurbished 317/6 from Cambridge to Kings Cross.

Peterborough - Liverpool Street via Bury and Ipswich has to be a contender!

Probably 1959 and (unrefurbished) 1972 Mk1 tube stock on the Northern line. I may have been on them when I was very young, but it would've been too young for me to remember!

I could have sworn that announcements at Cambridge would sometimes say 'Coleshill, Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Snow Hill'. Must be either dodgy announcements or dodgy memory!

At one point it was definitely Stansted Airport - Liverpool Lime Street direct with a 158 or 170 (or 156 on a good* day!). I also remember that some Birmingham trains would continue to terminate at Snow Hill after calling at New Street. I never did a longer journey than Cambridge - New Street...

Bishop's Stortford and Seven Sisters both had NSE-era announcements until only a few years ago. When I did work experience with NXEA in 2011, I spent a day doing the manual announcements at Ely which was great fun! Sadly they've now been replaced with the bog-standard automated system.

Cambridge - Kings Cross non-stop on a newly refurbished 317/6, when I was 4 or so. I think that explains why my favourite units are 317s, plenty of childhood memories of them in about ten different liveries.

Various little things really, I regret not taking down moves properly before 2011, particularly when abroad - I know I've been on trains in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia etc but have absolutely no idea what their numbers were - in that sense I...

I have many vivid memories of the railway when I was a kid, so I'll post what is probably the oldest: My Dad took me to London when I can't have been more than 3 or 4 (so this would've been around 1999-2000), and I remember standing on Platform 1 at Cambridge with the train being a pair of...

1967 Stock on the Victoria line. Visiting London with my family as a kid, we nearly always took the Victoria line from Kings Cross. At the time I didn't really think anything of the type of train as I didn't know as much about railways then as I do now, but they were a part of my childhood and...

55022 for me, as it's the only one I've rode behind. Went on the Norseman tour back in September 2010, Kings Cross - Newcastle then back via the Sunderland loop. Was certainly an enjoyable day :)

Not really a haunting as such, but I did find this quite weird: On the 30th June 2011 I went to London to travel on the last ever 1967 Stock train. The unit that I travelled on down to London was 317503, and the unit I took back home was 317883. At the time I didn't really think anything of it...

Having to stand up on an ex-express livery CT sprinter (can't remember if it was 156 or 158 ), Rugby when it had its overall roof, being on a VT Mk2 or Mk3 thinking that diesel trains were Mk2 and electric were Mk3! (I was about 5!), refreshment trolleys on the Cambridge - Kings X express.