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UK rail trip – 2022 Day 46 – 18th May, 2022 Today I’m off to Stratford-upon-Avon. After buying my customary litre bottle of orange juice at Tesco, I walked across the road to Liverpool Lime Street. My first train of the day would be a London Northwestern Railway class 350. This will take me as far as Birmingham New Street. A London Northwestern...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 45 – 17th May, 2022 Today I’m off to Scarborough. Despite the very loud music coming from Mathew Street below, I woke up before 07:00. I collected my stuff for the day and walked out and off to the station. On the way, I stopped off at Tesco for, you guessed it, a litre of orange juice. Tesco offered the best price for orange...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 44 – 16th May, 2022 I was up by 07:00. The earliest I’d been up for a while (with the exception of overnight trains). I checked out of the Castle Rock Hostel and made my way to Edinburgh Waverley. Today, I’m off to Liverpool. But I will be going via Manchester to meet up with my friend Gary. Edinburgh Waverley (08:12)...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 43 – 15th May, 2022 I got up at around 08:00 and packed up. It was a Sunday morning, so nothing was open apart from the Co-Op supermarket on top of a hill. There are two ways to reach the Co-Op – up a steep set of stairs or via the road and into the vehicle entrace. I chose the latter. I picked up something to eat and...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 42 – 14th May, 2022 Today was going to deliberately be a lazy day. I had no plans for today, apart from doing some washing. I wandered down to the Kyle Community Facilities where the laundry facilities were located. I opted for the card operated washing machine and threw my clothes in. It was estimated to take about an hour to wash...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 41 – 13th May, 2022 I awoke not long before the train passed through Carstairs. This is where the line to Edinburgh branches off. A night of broken sleep. I’m not as good at sleeping overnight on trains, in a seat, as I used to be. However, I was awake enough and looking forward to the day. Just before 07:30, the train...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 40 – 12th May, 2022 I woke up and checked out of the hostel. One of the first things I had to do this morning was to make a reservation for tonight’s Caledonian Sleeper to Fort William in Scotland. I caught the London Underground to King’s Cross St. Pancras station and dropped into the ticket office. The train leaves...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 39 – 11th May, 2022 I was up by around 08:00 (or thereabouts) and my payslip was already in my email inbox. It usually takes a few hours more for my pay to appear in my bank account. Sometimes, though, it can take a little longer. This was one of those days. It wasn’t until about four hours later that it had arrived. Once it...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 36 – 8th May, 2022 Today, my hosts and friends Steve & Christine took me off to the Runway Visitor Park at Manchester Airport. Despite having lived in Manchester for four years, from 2003 to 2007 (at that time, called the Aviation Viewing Park), I never got around to visiting. Today, I was to finally rectify that. The park is...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 35 – 7th May, 2022 Today, my one month BritRail Pass expires. I’ve decided to take a train up to Stockport and spend a few days with my friends Steve & Christine. I checked out of the Wombat City Hostel and walked to Tower Hill underground station. Being a weekend, there were some engineering works on some of the London...