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2020 New track coverage

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Peter Mugridge

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No doubt many of us will be riding over routes we have never before traversed in this year?
 
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Gathursty

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Indeed!
03/01
Reading - Hayes & Harlington (Just need Reading - Swindon to compelete GWML in full)
Windsor & Eton Central branch
Marlow branch
Henley-on-Thames branch
Seer Green & Jordans - High Wycombe (Just need High Wycombe - Banbury/Oxford to complete Chiltern Railways)
 

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Not many left for me now. and most of the remaining ones are either pretty dull, or very difficult to do because of a sparse service.

But, on this year's ALR, I should probably be adding:
Uckfield branch
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield, and to Rugeley
Nuneaton to Leamington Spa
THe Stansted Airport avoiding line
Crewe to Manchester Piccadilly via the Airport
Lanark branch
Marks Tey to Sudbury
 

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Wish i'd done it on a diverted HST :frown:

sadly wasnt a HST. Exeter to Waterloo service. Point failure meant we got stuck short of Templecombe. Reversed back to Yeovil JUnction. Onto Pen Mill, then service abandonned at Westbury.
Trying to get back to Weston-super-Mare, I joined a GWR service to Taunton. Stuck at Frome, point failure. Massive delay, then back to Westbury. Another massive delay, then it was announced we were heading to Bristol. Stuck outside Temple Meads for over an hour. No trains going anywhere. Stuck in Bristol for the night. Managed to get home after a 2 hour wait at Temple Meads the next day.
Not the best start to a 14 day ALR.
(Worth noting that I had already changed all my plans earlier that morning when Paddington was closed)
Word of advice kids: If a blizzard hits the country, get the hell home as fast as you can and try another day!
 

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Kettering - Bedford

Midland Main Line completed. Can now trace an unbroken line all the way from Brighton to Alloa.
Just need Peterborough to Ely to complete EMR network.
 
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I've not joined a track coverage thread in ages, hardly surprising my last new track in the UK was quite some time ago. However, I'm feeling jovial, so here's my latest lot in the last week:

- Redondo Beach-Norwalk (LA Metro Green Line)
- Downtown Long Beach-7th Street/Metro Center (and yes, the loop at that end of the line was done - LA Metro A Line, previously branded Blue Line)
- 7th Street/Metro Center-Downtown Santa Monica (LA Metro E Line, also referred to as Expo Line)
- Union Station-North Hollywood (LA Metro Red Line)
- Union Station-Wilshire/Western (LA Metro Purple Line)

- LA Union Station-San Bernardino Downtown (Metrolink)
- LA Union Station-Lancaster (Metrolink)
 

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Bulwell - Kirkby in Ashfield
Whitwell - Worksop

It is noted that I have already covered the Kirkby in Ashfield - Whitwell section, plus the left hand side of the triangle onto the ex Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire (Great Central) on the Midland and Great Central HST rail tour back in May 2016.
 

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Today I did Finsbury Park to East Croydon so therefore clearing the southbound tunnel between Belle Isle Junction to Canal Tunnel Junction,
I also finally cleared Streatham to Tooting. I did Wimbledon to Tooting back in November 1988 so it has taken me a while to get round to completing that line.
 

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today I did Hazel Grove to Buxton. then made my way by bus to Rose Hill to get a train to Manchester Piccadilly thereby clearing Rose Hill Marple to Marple Wharf Junction then Romiley Junction to Guide Bridge West Junction.
 

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London Fenchurch Street to Chafford Hundred
Stratford to Meridian Water
London Euston to Stonebridge Park (DC Lines)
Willesden Junction to Clapham Junction
Clapham Junction to East Croydon
East Croydon to Blackfriars
 
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Lowton Junction to Water Street Junction
Deansgate to Edge Hill
Liverpool Central to Hunts Cross
Liverpool South Parkway to Weaver Junction
Halton Junction to Frodsham Junction
Ellesmere Port to Helsby

Merseyrail network ticked off entirely.
 

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The whole tram network
Croydon loop
Mitcham Junction to East Croydon
East Croydon to Wandle park
ECR-Elmers end, New Addington and Beckenham Jcn.
 

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Peterborough - Ely/Finsbury Park/Finsbury Park via Hertford North
Ely - Chippenham Junction
Hitchin - Cambridge

East Midlands network cleared!
Great Northern network cleared!
 

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Sheffield Supertram
Hyde Park to Meadowhall Interchange
Meadowhall South to Parkgate
 

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Leamington Spa-Coventry
Coventry-Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street-Burton Upon Trent via Sutton Coldfield & Lichfield T V
 

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Harrow to Aylesbury Vale Parkway.
Aylesbury to High Wycombe.
Marlow to Maidenhead.
Tyford to Henley.
Reading to Redhill.
Elmers End/Beckenham Junction tram
Beckenham to Orpington.
Beckenham to Brixton.
Blackfriars to London Bridge.
 

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Birmingham New Street-Crewe
Crewe-Stoke On Trent
Stoke-Rugeley TV via Stafford avoider
Rugeley TV-Stechford via Walsall
Banbury-London Paddington via Greenford
London Marylebone-South Ruislip
 

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Farringdon - London Bridge
London Bridge - Lewisham
Lewisham - Dartford (via Bexleyheath)
Dartford - London Bridge (via Sidcup)
Liverpool Street - Seven Sisters
St Pancras - Finsbury Park
Finsbury Park - Old Street
Trent East Jn - Sheet Stores Jn
Swinton - Doncaster

18th January 2020

Hackney Downs - Enfield Lock
Turkey Street - Seven Sisters
Waterloo East - London Bridge
London Bridge - Sydenham
Sydenham - West Croydon
East Croydon - London Victoria
London Victoria - Herne Hill
Herne Hill - Blackfriars
Hitchin - Ely

25th January 2020
Moorfields - Ormskirk
Birkenhead North - New Brighton
Milner Royd Jn - Heaton Lodge Jn

1st February 2020
Bolton - Blackburn
Blackburn - Clitheroe

17th February 2020
New Mills South Jn - Romiley
Marple Wharf Jn - Rose Hill Marple
Romiley - Guide Bridge
Edgeley Jn No2 - Mickle Trafford
Wigan Wallgate - Southport
Wigan Wallgate - Bolton

18th February 2020
Aldwarke Jn - Holmes Jn (via Rotherham Central)
Romiley - Ashburys East Jn
Shipley - Skipton

7th March 2020

Dryclough Jn - Greetland Jn
Bradley Wood Jn - Bradley Jn
Thornhill LNW Jn - Wakefield West Jn
Altofts Jn - Castleford
Castleford - Knottingley
Pontefract Monkhill - Wakefield Kirkgate
 

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I’ve unlocked this thread as it has become dormant having not been posted in in a while.
 

Peter Mugridge

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Thank you Mojo; one of the unexpected consequences of lockdown!

Well, to resume, and hopefully not the only new track I get in the remainder of this year...................


03/08/20

Methley Junction - Wakefield Kirkgate
 

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Basingstoke - Weymouth
Portsmouth -Portsmouth Harbour
Island Line
Eastleigh - Fareham
Southampton to Romsey
Romsey to Eastleigh.
Alton to Woking
Barking to Grays via Dagenham.
Romford to Upminister
Upminister to Grays.
Woolwich to Greenwich
Eastleigh to Portsmouth.
Stockport to stone/trent valley
 

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Week beginning 3rd August
Banbury/Oxford - High Wycombe
Chiltern network completed

Oxford/Swindon/Taunton/Basingstoke - Reading
Axminster - Basingstoke
Bath Spa/Chippenham/Weymouth/Romsey - Westbury
Lymington branch
Romsey - Eastleigh/Redbridge
Eastleigh - Fareham
Southampton Central - Weymouth
Frome avoider and via Frome

Freedom of Severn & Solent Rover area completed.
Need Reading - Gatwick to complete GWR

Remaining work to do is either in the Highlands or in the Network Railcard area.
 
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