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Author Topic: How many stations have you used in the past 2 months?  (Read 9122 times)
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« on: January 27, 2015, 08:47:15 »

It struck me as I was writing another thread that - although I don't use the train anything like daily - I never the less see quite a few stations. For December and January (thus far), I came up with this list where I have joined or left trains:
Swansea, Cambridge, Montpelier, Neath, Syon Lane,  Swindon, Westbury, Motherwell, Glasgow Central, Barry, Cardiff Central, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Bridgend, London Paddington, London Euston, London King's Cross, Bristol Temple Meads, Reading, Melksham, Staines.

Whilst some journeys have been made in support of the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership / Melksham Railway Developemnt Group, none has been a pleasure only / enthusiast's trip, nor even have any been purely learning exercises to "see how others do it".

My tally of stations is 21, and I expect to ride on 6 more trains before the month's end, but they should not add to my station tally. Obviously (?) staff members of the rail industry will have far higher counts - but what about those of us who don't work for the railways?
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2015, 15:01:37 »

Here is my list from the past two months of the stations that I have entered or exited from:

Twyford, Henley-on-Thames, Shiplake, Reading, Paddington, Ealing Broadway, Windsor and Eton Central, Cholsey, Taunton, Farringdon, Blackfriars, Didcot Parkway and Reading West.

So 13 in total. It would be much higher if I included tube stations. I imagine in the summer months the number will be much higher, but a most of them would be for leisure purposes!
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2015, 15:07:11 »

Amazing how little overlap we have!

Plus Slough, perhaps, if you used Windsor and Eton Central!
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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2015, 15:42:29 »

Looking through my tickets,
Redruth, Camborne, Truro, Penzance, St Erth, St Ives, Carbis Bay, St Austell, Par, Newquay, Penryn, Falmouth Town and Plymouth.
13 all but Truro used for leisure travel. My cornwall and Devon railcard has certainly had its moneys worth.

I've also done 4 Ride Cornwall tickets. I think one of them I went to Bodmin Parkway, but as was 27h November I have excluded as was exactly 2 months ago from today
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2015, 16:33:13 »

17 in the last two months, here is my list:

Egham, Addlestone, Weybridge, Datchet, Reading, Stonehouse, Langley, Slough, Windsor & E C, Windsor & E R, Heathrow T5, Heathrow CTA (Compulsory Ticket Area), Paddington, Waterloo, London Euston, Edinburgh Waverley & Coventry.

I do use the train most days to and from work, but that's only 2 of the above, the other 15 have all been for leisure.
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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2015, 17:11:06 »

Can't compete, really. Castle Cary, Paddington, Blackheath, Westcombe Park, Charlton, Rochester, Greenwich, London Bridge, Cannon street, Stratford, Gidea Park, West Ham, Upminster, Barking (these three on C2C), and, if they count, Ebbsfleet, Paris GdN, Valognes and Paris St Lazare
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2015, 17:17:52 »

I wonder if as a forum we have managed every station used by FGW (First Great Western) in the last couple of months.
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2015, 17:19:14 »

OK; hands up for Pilning!
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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2015, 18:24:50 »

Leaving out the 3 usual commuting ones

These are all mainline
Waterloo
Waterloo East
London Victoria
Three Bridges
Blackfriars
Farringdon
City Thameslink
St Pancras (hi and low level)
Kings Cross
Moorgate
Alexandra Palace
Windsor & Eton Riverside
Windsor & Eton Central
Woking
London Bridge
Woolwich Arsenal
Ebbs Fleet

I am sure there are others
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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2015, 18:47:43 »

Mine certainly seem to be in a more concentrated area! : Cardiff Central, Bristol Parkway, Yate, Stapleton Road, Bristol TM(resolve), Chippenham, Swindon, Melksham, Bath Spa, Westbury, Frome, Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Yeovil Pen Mill, Yeovil Junction, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West, Salisbury, Axminster, Castle Cary, Taunton, Southampton Central, Avoncliff, Dilton Marsh ; which makes 24, I would have had Freshford as well but I was so used to going to Bath that I forgot to get off.
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« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2015, 19:30:59 »

Mine from the last two months, off the top of my head:

Severn Beach, St Andrew's Road, Avonmouth, Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Clifton Down, Montpelier, Stapleton Road, Bristol TM(resolve), Bristol Parkway, Cardiff Central, Cardiff Bay, Swansea, Swindon, Didcot Parkway, Reading, London Paddington, London Cannon Street, Tonbridge, Waterloo East, London Waterloo, Chippenham, Bath Spa, Trowbridge, Westbury, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Exeter St Davids, Exeter Central, Dawlish, Newton Abbot, Plymouth.

Which is 32. Possibly more but I'm not recording ny journeys at present and my memory is atrocious.
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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2015, 19:34:19 »

I would have had Freshford as well but I was so used to going to Bath that I forgot to get off.

That's surely worth a bonus point?  Grin
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« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2015, 22:53:21 »

... I'm not recording ny journeys at present and my memory is atrocious.

... as is your spelling.  Wink Cheesy Grin
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2015, 23:28:55 »

... I'm not recording ny journeys at present and my memory is atrocious.

... as is your spelling.  Wink Cheesy Grin

Ny smelling is fyne, its the tiping with fit fangers on a smartpone that's the prblm.
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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2015, 14:43:51 »

Mine from the last two months, off the top of my head:

Severn Beach, St Andrew's Road, Avonmouth, Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Clifton Down, Montpelier, Stapleton Road, Bristol TM(resolve), Bristol Parkway, Cardiff Central, Cardiff Bay, Swansea, Swindon, Didcot Parkway, Reading, London Paddington, London Cannon Street, Tonbridge, Waterloo East, London Waterloo, Chippenham, Bath Spa, Trowbridge, Westbury, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Exeter St Davids, Exeter Central, Dawlish, Newton Abbot, Plymouth.

Which is 32. Possibly more but I'm not recording ny journeys at present and my memory is atrocious.

Still January, so a few more to add from today. Cheltenham Spa, Gloucester and Newport (Gwent) That last one for less than a minute where I made a -2 minute connection. You may very well think that spending a minute in Newport (Gwent) is a minute too long, but as my colleague Chris from Nailsea would say, I couldn't possibly comment.  Grin
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