I am someone who loves to get out and about on trains whenever I can (which isn't very often these days). I was wondering if anyone else here was the same, and if they had any particularly great journeys they had done in the UK?
I love the steam railway on the north york moors, goathland to grosmont. But I think that's as it's the only steam railway I've been on. But the moors are fairly spectacular for their scenery.
My limit was network southeast every morning to school for 7 years - those old slam door trains with 'doggy [single] carriages' as well. Petts Wood to Chislehurst.
No fun, as can be imagined.
Network SE coast trains travelling regularly to Canterbury from Rochester when I lived there.
And then intercity to uni interviews. Much more exciting!
But then in my pre-agoraphobia days, I've been on virtually every area of the tube - I'll say one thing about supply teaching, it makes you well travelled!
Has anyone here done the run from Crianlarich (north end of Loch Lomond) to Fort William? I've driven that route, following the A82, about a million times on our way up to Skye and the Western Isles and I've always felt that one day I should drop James and Harley off to do that bit of the journey by train. I suspect it's spectacular, particularly around Ben Orchy ...
Wow, I'm amazed that out of our pretty huge membership no-one seems to have done the Crianlarich - Fort William run. I was hoping for guidance or recommendations ...
basically with my dad being a train enthusiast and photographs trains I spend most of my life on the trains mainly though the Virgin cross country
this is what i've done so far
-Dawlish warren-Derby
-Barnstaple Derby
-Derby leicester
-Derby Edinburgh
-Derby manchester
-derby birmingham
-Dawlish warren-plymouth
-dawlish warren exeter
ok think you get it now i'm train mad lol but only cross country lol
my longest train journey was Gravesend-Derby
Gravesend - london bridge
london bridge- london Euston
London euston Birmingham
Birmingham derby
all in one day took about 5 hours lol
Lewes to Newhaven. Brilliant scenery. You go past a river and it sometimes has mist hanging over it. You also see lots of rabbits, cows, sheep, horses and sometimes a deer.
Thanks, Eleutheros and Rhubarb. There's no way we could go North without the car because of dog and always tons of baggage. But I could drop James and Harley off on the way and pick them up at Fort William - and next year they could do the same for me.
What a pity though that it'll no longer be a steam train going "choof, choof, choof" through the cuttings with the sound echoing back and soot all over your face when you look out of the window!
There's a wonderful poem by a man called Patrick Chalmers about the old days when sportsmen used to take the train from London to Scotland every August for the fishing and the grouse shooting. I'll try to find it and post it - it really is very evocative, about the old LNER railway line, not the grouse shooting!
Tony if you are in the aviemore area i do recommend the steam railway there, always see it when i go to aviemore for the day. They are currently extending it so it will be sticking around :p
been on it twice this year 
