Shack Attacks 2015

[Kite159]

Chiltern and Southern should be so hard to do (maybe Southern will be though as if it is 3 shacks that you haven't yet had then they will probably be very hard to get!).

Good luck!

The hard ones are done, it be Rye, Appledore & Plumpton so three with an hourly service, perfect for a Sunday if I could find a Sunday where I can do them without involving a rail replacement bus!

 

[Kite159]

A busy long weekend for me:

4/12:
Reddish South
Denton
Belle Vue
Brinnington
Ryder Brow
Reddish North
Bredbury
Woodley
Hyde North
Marple
Strines
New Mills Central
New mills midtown
Whaley Bridge
Fairfield
Ardwick
Ashburys
Hattersley
Godley
Dinting
Newton for Hyde
Broadbottom
Flowery Field
Hyde Central
Guide bridge
Glossop
Macclesfield
Chapel-en-le-Frith

5/12:
Dove Holes
Furness Vale
Disley
Goostrey
Alderley Edge
Holmes Chapel
Chelford
Gatley
Heald Green
Navigation Road (both NR & Metrolink)
Hale
Warrington Central
Padgate
Sankey for Penketh
Eccles
Patricroft
Newton-Le-Willows

6/12:
Gravesend
Rochester
Rainham (Kent)
Newington
Higham
Greenhithe for Bluewater
Stone Crossing
Northfleet
Swanscombe
Abbey Road DLR
Star Lane DLR
East India DLR

 

[Techniquest]

3 intensive days there, fair play! Putting me to shame good sir, I think I need to really get cracking next year!

As they say, anything you can do I can do better!

 

[fishquinn]

07/12/15
Kings Sutton
Bull Street (Midland Metro)

 

[Kite159]

3 intensive days there, fair play! Putting me to shame good sir, I think I need to really get cracking next year!

As they say, anything you can do I can do better!

What and get all 4 very limited served shacks in the GM area cleared in the same day?

 

[Techniquest]

Where there's a will, there's a way!

*Plans form to head to Manc asap*

 

[Gathursty]

What and get all 4 very limited served shacks in the GM area cleared in the same day?

Have you visited Clifton (Manchester) yet? The Farnworth Tunnel works have rendered it closed for a couple of months but I believe it is back to normal on 14th December.

 

[Kite159]

Have you visited Clifton (Manchester) yet? The Farnworth Tunnel works have rendered it closed for a couple of months but I believe it is back to normal on 14th December.

I had hoped to get it done on Friday, but then the tunnel overrun happened, and it was down to being served by one rail replacement bus a day so I changed my plans and attacked the Glossop line during evening peak. I think it is quite easy to get Clifton in, do Ardwick on the 16:47 to Ashburys, and train it back to Piccadilly, then get across to Victoria for the 18:10 service towards Wigan which calls at Clifton (and then either a bus or a 1.2 mile walk to Swinton)

 

[Gathursty]

I had hoped to get it done on Friday, but then the tunnel overrun happened, and it was down to being served by one rail replacement bus a day so I changed my plans and attacked the Glossop line during evening peak. I think it is quite easy to get Clifton in, do Ardwick on the 16:47 to Ashburys, and train it back to Piccadilly, then get across to Victoria for the 18:10 service towards Wigan which calls at Clifton (and then either a bus or a 1.2 mile walk to Swinton)

Ah, still an excellent feat nonetheless of getting those pesk TfGM halts.
I did actually take the train to Clifton from Salford Crescent, with a pushbike on the early rush-hour train some years ago now. Some very dirty looks from those incredulous I'd take a bike on such a rammed service.

 

[adrock1976]

10/11/15

Buckshaw Village/Parkway
Chorley
Heald Green
Gatley
Cheadle Hulme
East Didsbury
Hattersley
Hazel Grove
Disley
Davenport
Woodsmoor

Styal left hanging between MAN - Wilmslow via MIA.

12/11/15

Barrow-in-Furness

I did a circular GLC - CAR - LAN - BIF - CAR - GLC that day, hence only the one new station scored.

 

[Kite159]

11/12

Oxford Parkway
Bicester Village
Islip

Chiltern complete

 

[ooo]

11/12

Oxford Parkway
Bicester Village
Islip

Chiltern complete

Congratulations

 

[fishquinn]

Yay! Congrats Lord Kite! How long was the fester at Islip?

 

[andyb2706]

23/11/2015
Flixton

07/12/2015
Accrington
Littleborough

 

[Kite159]

Yay! Congrats Lord Kite! How long was the fester at Islip?

Timetabled 6 minutes, actually 10 minutes due to delay.

12/12

Appledore
Rye

Plumpton will have to wait as southern are doing what Govia owned companies do best and cancelling services left right and centre.

 

[fishquinn]

Ok then. I thought that it was much longer than that!

Hopefully you'll get Plumpton soon though!

 

[Kite159]

Ok then. I thought that it was much longer than that!

Hopefully you'll get Plumpton soon though!

To be honest, it will probably now have to wait until the new year, but should be easier to get than the other two (distance & time wise).

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As for Islip, there are some big gaps, there are some small gaps, but I found the 20:08 from Oxford Parkway calls at Islip, and the 20:21 arrival into Parkway also calls, which gives a doable +6, as it be a nice footbridge (and as the 20:08 sits at Parkway for 18-odd minutes, it should depart on time

 

[rg177]

12/12/15

Battersea Park
Queenstown Road Battersea
Wandsworth Town
Putney
Barnes
Barnes Bridge
Earlsfield
New Malden
Berrylands
Wandsworth Common
Streatham Common
Norbury
Thornton Heath
Selhurst
Waddon
Wallington
Carshalton Beeches
Sandilands (Tram)
Arena (Tram)
St John's
Hither Green
Lee
Mottingham
New Eltham
Sidcup
Albany Park
Bexley
Crayford
Shoreditch High Street
Hoxton
Haggerston
Dalston Junction
Canonbury

 

[Kite159]

12/12/15

Battersea Park
Queenstown Road Battersea
Wandsworth Town
Putney
Barnes
Barnes Bridge
Earlsfield
New Malden
Berrylands
Wandsworth Common
Streatham Common
Norbury
Thornton Heath
Selhurst
Waddon
Wallington
Carshalton Beeches
Sandilands (Tram)
Arena (Tram)
St John's
Hither Green
Lee
Mottingham
New Eltham
Sidcup
Albany Park
Bexley
Crayford
Shoreditch High Street
Hoxton
Haggerston
Dalston Junction
Canonbury

Busy day in London-Village

 

[rg177]

Little bit of everything, I liked it
33 is indeed a daily record for me

 

[Cletus]

12/12/15

Adwick
Mexbrough
Conisborough
Swinton (Yorkshire)

 

[Techniquest]

Jeez, 33 in one day is a lot! I think my own record was also in London back in the autumn, 35 in one day. Not bad considering I didn't reach London until gone 1430 that day!

 

[Gathursty]

12/12/2015
Apperley (Not Appley) Bridge
Manchester Piccadilly
Etihad Campus (Metrolink)

 

[fishquinn]

33 is 1 day is amazing!

 

[Kite159]

Just a few for me today, I was aiming for the trams but got side-tracked by some of the forum's favourite rolling stock

13/12:
Farningham road
Meopham
Longfield
Sole Street

 

[Starmill]

Apperley Bridge - West Yorkshire complete (again)

 

[Kite159]

14/12

Cranbrook

SWT completed... Again.

 

[fishquinn]

Did Cranbrook open yesterday?

 

[Kite159]

Did Cranbrook open yesterday?

Opened on Sunday

 

[fishquinn]

Cool! I wander how many more shacks SWT will open.