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Trivia: Current services where the train reverses ends, mid-journey.

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Mcr Warrior

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(Carved out from another current thread about choosing the "safest" place to travel on a train)...

Must be a few routes across the network. Some examples...

Middlesbrough -> Whitby (Northern service, train reverses at Battersby Junction):

Leeds -> Manchester Victoria via Calder Valley (Northern service, train reverses at Bradford Interchange);

Manchester Piccadilly -> Bournemouth (XC service, train reverses at Reading).

Any others? N.B. Not looking for historic such services, just ones currently or in the last few years.
 
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Liverpool-Norwich reverses at Sheffield Manchester-West Country some reverse at Birmingham New Street. Holyhead-South Wales/Birmingham reverses at Chester. Manchester-Pembrokeshire reverse at Swansea & Carmarthen. Shrewsbury -Swansea reverses at Llanelli. Inverness-Wick reverses at Georgemas Jct & Thurso. Leeds-Lincoln reverse at Sheffield. Morecambe-Leeds reverse at Lancaster. Paignton-Exmouth reverse at Exeter St David's. Manchester Airport-To Numerous destinations reverse at Manchester Piccadilly terminus platforms. Portsmouth-Cardiff reverses at Bristol TM. Westbury-Gt Malvern reverses Bristol TM & Gloucester. The Sunday only Carlisle-Nottingham reverses at Leeds. St Pancras-Sheffield via Langley Mill reverses at Nottingham.
 
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Glasgow-Mallaig reverses at Fort William.

Cardiff-Holyhead reverses at Chester.

Birmingham-Aberystwyth/Pwllheli reverses at Shrewsbury.

Manchester/Cardiff/Swansea-Pembroke Dock/Milford Haven/Fishguard reverse at Carmarthen.
 

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Victoria- Hastings and Brighton-Hastings services reverse at Eastbourne.
Services on the West Sussex Coastway line used to reverse at Littlehampton- perhaps others can confirm.
Birmingham- Aberystwyth/Pwhelli services reverse at Shrewsbury
Swansea- Milford Haven/Fishguard/Pembroke services reverse at Carmarthen
 
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The Ayr-Edinburgh services pre-covid reversed at Glasgow Central, and the Dumbarton Central to Cumbernauld services about 2 years ago, reversed at Springburn.
 
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The Liverpool - Norwich previously mentioned can also have an additional reversal at Nottingham if diverted via Syston between Nottingham and Peterborough
 

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A small number of Southern and GWR services reverse en route at Eastleigh.

SWR Waterloo to Swanage railway via Salisbury and the Yeovil stations, (when it ran on some summer Saturdays), reversed en route 4 times...
 
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Couple more...

Bridlington -> Sheffield or York or Doncaster (Northern service, train reverses at Hull);

Norwich -> Sheringham (Greater Anglia service, train reverses at Cromer).
 

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Hull - Halifax services reverse at Bradford Interchange.

Lancaster - Heysham services reverse at Morecambe.

An early morning Selby - Scunthorpe service reverses at Doncaster.
 

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Ones i can think of:

Leeds to Morecambe reverses at Lancaster,

Sunday Leeds to Heysham reverses at Lancaster and Morecambe,

Doncaster/Sheffield to Beverley/Brid/Scarborough reverse at Hull,

Leeds to Knottingley/Goole reverses at Castleford,

Any service through Bradford Interchange reverses there,

Paignton to Exmouth reverses at Exeter St Davids

Far North line trains reverse at Georgmas Junction

(Not current, but i can remember as a kid one Leeds to Morecambe used to reverse at Bradford Forster Square).
 

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Caley Sleeper:
Euston Edinburgh reverses at Carstairs
Euston Fort William / Aberdeen / Inverness all reverse in Edinburgh.

Does anything still go round the Rose St curve and reverse to access Inverness station?

Glasgow to Girvan/Stranraer via Kilmarnock reverse at Kilmarnock

Manchester Picc to Hadield reverses at Glossop, and the peak Man Picc to Man Picc trains reverse at both Hadfield and Glossop

Plus some night trains York to Man Airport reverse at Leeds if booked via Castleford
Manchester Airport-To Numerous destinations reverse at Manchester Piccadilly terminus platforms.
Only to Sheffield/Cleethorpes plus anything to Leeds etc via Guide Bridge e.g. probably some of the 'night' trains or during engineering diversions.
 

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Nottingham - Skegness at Grantham (though it is possible to avoid by taking the third side of the triangle at Allington).
 

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Have we had Gatwick Airport -> Reading (GWR service, train reverses at Redhill)?
 

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The odd Scotland - Plymouth service reverse at Birmingham and once a day one goes via Gloucester.

From May the Crewe - Nottingham/Newark services will reverse at Derby.
 

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LNER services to/from Braford, Skipton and Harrogate all reverse at Leeds.

Anything going anywhere via Bradford Interchange (it's a terminus, so no option!).
 
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