All posts under the category of rail travel. This also includes posts relating to the planning stages, as well as posts after.
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 33 – 5th May, 2022 Today I’m off to Windsor. I checked out of Prime Backpackers Hostel and made my way to Angel station. Since I’ll be checking in to a different London hostel this evening, I’ll be dragging my suitcase around all day. This isn’t really an issue, as I’d still be dragging it with me if I...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 32 – 4th May, 2022 Today was one of those ‘because I can, just because I have a rail pass’ days. I decided to take a train up to Birmingham and back. But I didn’t leave from London Euston to get to Birmingham New Street. I made my way to London Marylebone, instead. I’ve never caught a train up the Chiltern...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 31 – 3rd May, 2022 Today I’m off to Lowestoft, the easternmost settlement in the United Kingdom. I hopped onto the London Underground and made my way to London Liverpool Street. To get to Lowestoft, I will have to catch two trains (with the change at Ipswich). I found my Greater Anglia class 745/1 waiting for me at platform...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 30 – 2nd May, 2022 I checked out of the Holroyd Arms at around 09:00 to catch a bus to the Guildford area of Normandy. After getting the bus stops mixed up (ie: going the wrong way!), I hopped on a bus that would take me just over a kilometre from where I needed to get to. The remaining 1.3 km was a nice leisurely walk. It was...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 29 – 1st May, 2022 I checked out of the hostel. I enjoyed my stay at The Phoenix Hostel. I would seriously consider staying there again. But not tonight. Today I’m off to Guildford – the supposed home town of Ford Prefect (which was later found out that he was actually from Betelgeuse). I popped onto the London...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 28 – 30th April, 2022 Today I’m off to Salisbury! It’s been almost 25 years since I last visited Salisbury. Salisbury is the closest city to the world-famous Stonehenge. I wouldn’t be visiting Stonehenge today, so no searching to find out whether the Pandorica actually exists. I would be starting from London...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 27 – 29th April, 2022 I checked out of the St. Christopher’s Inn Pub hostel. Not likely to stay at this hostel again! Today, I’m planning on doing one thing – and one thing only. I’ve decided to catch a train up the East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh and then catch a train back down the West Coast Main Line...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 26 – 28th April, 2022 Today, I’m off to Cambridge, back on the Doctor Who trail. Cambridge was used for location filming for the unfinished Doctor Who story ‘Shada‘, written by Douglas Adams. Despite never being completed, due to a BBC TV strike, it was eventually released on to DVD (with linking narration by Tom...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 25 – 27th April, 2022 Today I’m off to Canterbury for the day – for the afternoon, at least! It will take me a few hours to get there. Armed with a month long BritRail Pass, allowing me unlimited travel, this was not a problem. I checked out of the hostel and walked up to the station. My first train of the day would be...
UK rail trip – 2022 Day 24 – 26th April, 2022 It was time to check out and get on the move again. I took the 25 minute walk to Northern Moor Metrolink station. After a 20-25 minute trip to Manchester Piccadilly, I boarded the 10:55 Avanti West Coast service to London Euston (after I picked up a litre of orange juice, of course). This class 390 was named...