Right, it's a long time since I last posted in this thread but here are the recent trips that I can remember.
I went to Preston last month and rode around on a rented e-bike investigating proposed tram routes. At the end of this, I tried to take my bike on at Bamber Bridge, but it was a matchday & the train was so full of Blackburn Rovers supporters that it couldn't fit. I rode to Leyland instead to pick up my first 319 ride since they left London.
Recent trips crossing off the rest of the class 313s before retirement (got round to all except '3214 in the end with 2 days to spare), along with the stations which they served:
Moulsecoomb and Falmer I got while engaged in another of my hobbies: trying to work out where the police horsebox had parked for the game against Crystal Palace which I had missed the previous week. Unfortunately the rain had washed away all the evidence.
As the only station in the Havant area which I didn't already have, I decided to start at Warblington, which gave me the anxiety I usually get around stations where the only way to cross the tracks is by level crossing, making it possible to get to the station, but still miss your train because it's on the other side.
Some toing & froing got me Southbourne, Barnham, and Bosham, with its wonderful view of Chichester's spire, which only train crews get to enjoy since it's almost exactly parallel to the line.
At Littlehampton, the barrier lady took a disliking to my ticket, & attempted to rip it up, so I walked to Angmering and got a fast 313 run over to Portsmouth. Bognor Regis was outside my ticket, so I had to buy an excess fare.
I did the +1 shuffle at Nutbourne from westbound to eastbound, wasn't impeded by the level crossing because my train out was 7 minutes late so I can't say whether it's really possible or not, then visited Fishbourne Roman Palace, where like at all expensive museums, I got severe anxiety over getting my money's worth & ended up staying until closing time & being kicked out.
Over on the eastern diagrams, I spent half an hour in Seaford and visited Newhaven Harbour, although because I arrived & left on the same train, I don't count it.
The final day saw me take a walk across the country from Newhaven to Bishopstone, and later walk to Newhaven Harbour for the last 313 departure, whence I alighted at Southease to relieve myself.
All with 313s themselves, and furthermore Lancing, where '7302 caught & bowled me, Hilsea and Emsworth, which I only got to on Friday afternoon, and Worthing, which I got after taking the 01:21 departure purely to shorten my benightment by 1 hour.
The first time I'd had Portsmouth Harbour was off the ferry coming back from a holiday in Normandy as a child. Southsea and Fratton I've had loads of times changing from Wessex services. Bedhampton and Havant I'd had on a previous trip to the Havant area. Chichester is a wonderful city I like to visit anyway. Ford I'd had on a visit to Arundel. I know I've taken the Hove Shuttle, so I've definitely visited Hove, but I can't remember when. My first trip to Brighton Terminus was as an 8-year-old on a excursion train formed from a class 442 that was non-stop from East Croydon to Brighton. Preston Park and Brighton London Road were on 5 November 2021, Lewes the very next day (for a reason that I can't talk about online, but if you know you know). Finally, I have fond memories of my trips on 3-PEPs down to Newhaven Town for trips to the continent. Hellfire, that long & fast section from Southerham to Southease was.
On the way back on Thursday, I took the spectacular section of bus route round Beachy Head from Seaford to Eastbourne, then visited Pevensey, copping both Westham and Bay stations. As a strike that day meant there were only eastbound services from the latter, I changed over to the 22 at St Leonard's Warrior Square.
Whatever works for you is the key thing 
