National Rail Stations (all of them)

[tubeguru]

Surely a 'visit' should be a stop?

I'm counting passing through a station without stopping as a "visit", remember?

But yes, I'm now fully made up in my mind that we must be passing through on a platform line to make it count. I know full well Didcot doesn't count if you go round the avoider, but I just thought I'd throw it in.

[Wanstead]

However by the 1980's all but the most westerly platform had been demolished, meaning that services using the Midland Main Line can no longer stop at Dore & Totley station, and that today both eastbound and westbound Hope Valley Line services use the one remaining platform. Now using your definition of a "visit" as either arriving at, departing from, or simply passing through a station, I would say that any train passing through the station on either of the two lines would be suitable for your definition, despite their being no platform where the Midland Main Line services could stop at if they wished to do so.

Apologies for being a bit blunt but you seem to have taken a logical full circle in that paragraph. Since Midland services cannot stop at the station, I would state it does not count as a visit unless you take a Hope Valley train. The fact that the Midland runs, in effect, very close to it is neither here nor there.

Good luck with Gainsborough Cental, Sugar Loaf, Coombe Junction, Tees-side Airport, Reddish South, etc.

[tubeguru]

Since Midland services cannot stop at the station, I would state it does not count as a visit unless you take a Hope Valley train. The fact that the Midland runs, in effect, very close to it is neither here nor there.

Exactly - I won't count it unless I'm on a Hope Valley train.

[RichieG]

Surely a 'visit' should be a stop?

I'm counting passing through a station without stopping as a "visit", remember?

But yes, I'm now fully made up in my mind that we must be passing through on a platform line to make it count. I know full well Didcot doesn't count if you go round the avoider, but I just thought I'd throw it in.

Note to self: Read messages before posting...

Second note to self: Make more use of the 'sarcastic' smilie

[perkyperky]

"... you would want to get off at Didcot ...

Negative captain - it looks a right dump.

You're not wrong, it's a dump!

[tubeguru]

And that bloody power station is always making the rails slippery round there.

[tangy]

Good luck with Gainsborough Cental, Sugar Loaf, Coombe Junction, Tees-side Airport, Reddish South, etc.

Visited Gainsboro' Central, Coomble Junc and Reddish South, with a bit of prior planning mind!

[Going Underground]

And that bloody power station is always making the rails slippery round there.

Had the pleasure of viewing that on Saturday when we stopped at Didcot Parkway on way to Swindon

[tubeguru]

There are actually two power stations at Didcot - one coal-fired (the one nearer the railway), and one gas-fired.

[Wanstead]

There are actually two power stations at Didcot - one coal-fired (the one nearer the railway), and one gas-fired.

Have you ever stopped at East Midlands Parkway? Never mind your Didcots, this is a power station!

[Garion]

There are actually two power stations at Didcot - one coal-fired (the one nearer the railway), and one gas-fired.

Of all the times I've been past there, I've never knew that. Nice one TG

[snudge27]

When you take in the Bittern Line, may I recommend you take the short walk from the mainline station at Sheringham to the North Norfolk Railway station, which lies just across the road. It's a particularly nice heritage railway and the steam-hauled journey along the clifftops is beautiful in summer!

[tangy]

Just totalled up my NR visited stations total- and I have visited 1,350 of them! This includes some stations like Workington North and the old Bathgate terminus which are no longer on the map, but visited before they were closed.

[palkanetoijala31]

Just totalled up my NR visited stations total- and I have visited 1,350 of them! This includes some stations like Workington North and the old Bathgate terminus which are no longer on the map, but visited before they were closed.

perhaps i should ask you to accompany me when i attempt the world record for all national rail stations open then.?

[RichieG]

The tricky ones will be those only open at certain times, such as on 'match days' etc...

This might interest you (at least from the techie side of things) - at some point (probably not until the easter holidays as that's the next time I've got off work) I'm hoping to look see if the OpenStreetMap data is available in API form or something, so that I can grab the mapping data, and add my own to indicate roads driven and railways travelled on. If it works, I'll let you have access to it somehow (I think it'd be useful for a load of other geeks that I believe some people here know about too) so you can use it. Hopefully it'd be a bit more reliable than Google Maps is for things like this (as GM is really only for showing maps with occasional landmarks, not custom routes and many landmarks...)

Sorry for the massive bump...

Only a year later than planned, this is now available in test-form here: http://stations.stupidstupidity.co.uk.

All NR and LU stations are on there now - well, all according to the spreadsheet that Tangy so very kindly supplied last year, not sure how up to date it is anymore; I don't think there have been any openings in the past year. Hoping to add heritage railways (currently the West Somerset and the Swanage Railways are there) as well as metros and light railways. Not all the stations will be flagged up on the map because I haven't put all the locations on there yet.

It's currently still being tested, but if you want to have a go just message me. I'm afraid you need to be on Facebook to be able to log in to it - this is because I'm hoping to make it a FB app once it's working a bit better.

At the moment it doesn't show a list of stations by user, but this - as well as more data acquisition - is next on my list of things to do, as is making the station selection a bit easier to do... (at the moment you select by TOC, which isn't the easiest way to do it!)

(may also add that if you have your own data in a spreadsheet or something, if you ask nicely and it's not formatted stupidly, I may be able to put that in for you...)

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