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52 places you may have visited by rail - UK and Europe - by main line / national daily network train.  With a "competitive" element I have listed many places I have been to or through - some 28, and some are sadly no longer possible.  Indeed they show my age with some of the later Beeching era closures listed.

How many have you visited?   What are on your "wanna go there" list that you have not yet visited?  How many to you ask "where is that".

To start the ball rolling ... in amongst the storm, planning a trip as far as Kars by train next year on my own, and looking to take Lisa to Hel  :D (the place!)

Wow! - that is a splendid and eclectic list!

I'll claim the lowest score of anyone.  I've visited only three places: Bucharest (airport), Lecce (outstanding architecture and so few tourists), and Wick (along with Thurso, on a damp day trip by train from Inverness).

As for 'where is it?', I've some idea for most of them, but to put a pin on a map I'd only be confident for 20.

19, if I include Syracuse as being in New York State.

Syracuse is convenient for visiting the tallest waterfalls in NY State. No, not Niagara, but the Taughannock Falls in the Finger Lakes State Park - well worth a visit and without the tat of Niagara.

I score only 16, but with 2 additional "can't remembers" - Slaggyford (in many visits to the north, have I ever been from the A66 to Alston that way?) and Portrush (visited Giant's Causeway in 1984, during a stay in Dromore, County Down, and cannot remember where my route around north Antrim went).

I did not use the train to get to any of them, only passed through two on the train (Pilning and Beasdale) and many were on birdwatching trips, almost all by car (or air/ferry plus car). I have though used the train (underground) in Madrid. Quite a few are places I've been past, or been near, but not visited. Quite a few are also on my wish list, and hopefully Aachen will be converted to no. 17 next year.

I am very much looking forward to reading Gahame's posts about Kars next year!

Only been to four on that list so far but Wuppertal is certainly on the agenda for a little jaunt.
I'm presently on the (delayed) service from Bristol Parkway to York for a couple of nights with the National Railway Museum very much on my itinerary.

Also only four - Madrid, Minehead, Quimper & Whitby -  but three of them (not Quimper) at least once by rail.

In answer to various requests - I HAVE put a set of pins in the map

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... and come to realise how I have left out great swathes of Europe which sure is a big place!

Green and blue pins - places I HAVE been by train (blue no longer available)
Red pins - places that I've not been to but could tickle my fancy

Bucharest and Lecce - looking to follow you, johnneyw!

Ah, I think you meant that for PrestburyRoad.

15 for me, but not many of them by rail

13, all in UK and all by train, including Balloch Pier before it closed

Err, not quite. I score a lowly one (Madrid by plane) though I may have been to Minehead as a child.

10, I think. Most exotic is probably Drie Annen Hohne - we couldn't go further up the Brocken as it was on fire. Those mobile phone alerts they sent out the other day for Storm Darragh were nothing like as scary as the ones we had in Wernigerode, telling us every few hours that the whole area was on fire.

Wuppertal's on my bucket list...

If you're on the Wuppertal a bucket might be useful, but only in extremis.

Mark

Wick is my only one, by train from Bristol Parkway (railtour) may have been to Minehead, but no record on my 3000+ list of uk pubs visits, largley by train.

We'll have to (hick) have you set (hick) a similar quiz (hick) sometime.

Cleethorpes, Stranraer Harbour, Whitby (All first visit by Rail)

Minehead by rail but only from Bishops Lydeard

Melksham (Arrived on foot left on the bus to Bath)

Just four of those on that list from me: Melksham (obviously! ;D); Minehead (WSR); Pilning (passing through ::)) and Whitby (NYMR).

I can only tick off four places I've definitely been to - Aachen, Granville, Madrid, and Quimper - plus Syracuse (NY). But none of those was by train, and only Madrid involved trains while there (the Metro).

I remember very little of the longer rail trips I made while at school to summer camps, and mostly don't have records. But for the one near Timberscombe in 1965 I guess we went to Minehead by train.

And it's possible I've been to to Wick and Carhaix - I know I've been not far away. There are also other exotic, and east European, places some of which were by train; they just happen to fall in the blank bits of Graham's map!

Just the 11 for me - all bar one (Syracuse (NY)) by train, spanning many years!

Balloch Pier; Beasdale; Caerphilly; Melksham; Minehead; North Berwick; Pilning; St Moritz; Syracuse (NY); Whitby; Wick.

Presumably Syracuse in Sicily (Siracusa for our Italian members) also counts? If not, reduce my "score" by one!

Yes - that's the one I was thinking of and is as shown on the map.

I have visited (in the sense of travelling to and setting foot in):

Caerphilly
Cleethorpes
Madrid
Melksham
Minehead
North Berwick
Pilning
Quimper
Stranraer Harbour
Whitby
and Wick

All by train, except Cleethorpes which I cycled to from Hull (and have cycled to quite a few of the others on that list).

Have also passed through Beasdale by train and have cycled through at least twice, and have passed through Wuppertal by train. I can't remember if I visited Balloch Pier when I visited Loch Lomond a very long time ago now.

I have been close to Slaggyford (Alston) and to Syracuse (Catania).

Most of the others I have no idea where they are! But might find myself visiting one or two next year.