Good morning. I’ve decided Copenhagen station isn’t really a station… it’s a cathedral!!! Its beautiful 😍

Copenhagen ✅ That was a long, and to be honest not a great journey! Very busy train and awful seats. Anyway… Copenhagen looks nice!

What a cracking sunset this evening as we cross on the Rendsburg High Bridge!

Hamburg Hbf ✅ Had an hour and half connection here. As everything is going to plan, we had time for some food. We is now on our way further north and heading for Denmark! Germany has been surprisingly smooth running today. Don’t know what all the fuss is about 😝

Osnabrück ✅ Next up we head to Hamburg. Decided some lunch was in order so headed to the restaurant car for a beer and some pizza!

Hilversum ✅ Time to board an ICE service which will take us over the border to Germany.

Rotterdam Central ✅ No… I’m not doing every last station in Europe… but I will tick ones i board and/or alight at.

Goedemorgen vanuit Nederland Vandaag een lange reisdag. Kom op! Good morning from the Netherlands Today's a long travel day. Come on!

Found the bar! Also found tonight’s accommodation 👀 Until tomorrow Bon voyage 🚢

A very relaxed and non interesting day travelling today… Now where’s the pub! It’s Friday night and I want a beer!

From St Pancras to Liverpool Street!!! Onwards in to Greater Anglia land!

Spent the last few hours basically trying to stay dry! Hoping for some better weather next week! Ended up in Wellingborough where some shopping was required after my walking boots decided to no longer be walking boots 😭. Time to head down to London on the EMR connect service.

Good morning from Bletchley where a trip on London North(ern) Western Railway on the Marston Vale Line is long over due! Not much planned today. Just going to hop about on couple buses before heading into London this afternoon.

Today comes to an end in Milton Keynes at a similar time as a charter train was there. As is always the case in Milton Keynes, crashing at a mates house for the night. Back tomorrow as the this trip goes east!

Time to leave New Street. Basement as gloomy as ever! Great to be able to board the train 15 min before departure. Much better sitting on the warm train rather than on the cold gloomy platform.

After a pleasant bus journey to Wellington, it’s back on the trains. First up was a short hop from Wellington to Telford, and now Telford to Birmingham!

My time in Market Drayton was very limited due to Arriva cancelling the bus from Whitmore! Found an uber so made it just in time for my next bus move which is the new 340 service to Wellington! Original plan was via Shrewsbury. But be rude to not go on a new bus route!

Went for a little walk around the Baldwin’s Gate & Whitmore area! Lovely, yet muddy path, along side the WCML!

Whitmore disused railways station. The disused ticket office building so similar to many still in use along the west coast mainline!

From Stoke train station to Hanley Bus station Heading for a bit of an explore on buses

After a fantastic evening at a concert in Manchester, it’s time to head on an adventure! Starting things off slow today, getting the stopper to Stoke! £2.20 in the January rail sale I’ll take the stopper happily at that price!

Little game of guess the station… Which Scottish station is this?

Had a bit of a break from my socials for few weeks. January is always a tough month for me. January 12 years ago was when my old man lost his battle with cancer. Ever since then, January has felt like the longest month ever! But here’s to Feb and an epic trip is on the horizon!

Excellent docu on two guys taking the bus fromLand's End to John O Groates @everylaststation.bsky.social @johnnyhoover.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=94sh...

Chuffed to see my photo on the front cover of the latest Guide to Train services booklet for the Coast, Lakes, Dales & Fells! A very useful booklet to have while travelling the north west of England by train! Who can guess the photo location?

My awesome boss who joined me for a day during my great scenic railways of Wales charity walk has just approved me FIVE weeks additional annual leave this year so I can do the most epic of charity walks this year… When I say epic charity walk… I mean epic!!!

Train, cliffs & sea all in one photo… what’s not to love! Photo taken near Saltburn on the freight only live! (Should defo be a passenger line through to Whitby & Scarborough!)

The fry up map has been drawn... I will now gradually visit them as and when I am in the relevant areas. Feel free to keep suggestions coming in on the original post

Viaducts… Few are more impressive than the Glenfinnan viaduct!!! Feel free to challenge that statement!

Random photo The HST Pullman at Arrochar & Tarbet during a trip last year!

One thing I love when travelling is a good old fry up! I want to create a map with a list of station cafes, or cafes within 10-15 mins of a station, that I should visit during my future travels. Get your suggestions into the replies. Photo locations in ALT text

Go and watch please! Very interesting stuff

Standing on a bridge watching a bridge be moved into position… Was more fun than it sounds! Great to see the M6 Clifton rail bridge now in position!

Good morning and happy weekend to all! Hope you all have a good weekend! For me I’m catching up with friends this morning in Carnforth before spending rest of the weekend doing the dreaded housework!

Its a very important question that @geofftech.bsky.social is asking! But what ever your method for visiting a station is, you need a spreadsheet to log your visit on! Thankfully for you, I have just the thing: www.everylaststation.co.uk/downloads

Snow has arrived in Ulverston! Direct trains to Manchester also return today! Yes the station canopy is still held up with scaffolding! Have a good day everyone!

#LEJOGbyBus The route & detailed data now available for download. www.everylaststation.co.uk/lejogbybus

Over on Johnnys YouTube channel the final day of #LEJOGbyBus is now released! Please do check it out! youtu.be/sc7-dt3RIEo?... My thanks to Johnny for coming along and making these great videos! Here’s to myself, Johnny & Marks next trip! @letsmakeatrip.bsky.social @johnnyhoover.bsky.social

Fantastic day with some great friends! Back home now warming up. Can barely feel my feet!

Ribblehead viaduct at sunset featuring Avanti… It’s very very very cold here! But worth braving the cold for a photo I think

Carlisle… Always looks amazing! That was a lovely run from Wrexham to Carlisle!

Lots of games on the train!

Today is a random journey day… Wrexham to Carlisle on Avanti via the Settle & Carlisle! This should be very fun!

Ended the day in Wrexham where we met up with some friends and spontaneously went ten pin bowling! A perfect end to a very unplanned day!

Bidston Where Merseyrail meets… erm… Underground trains

BRIO TRAINS!!! These little 230s are fantastic little units! If they could be more reliable they be game changing for little branch lines!

This afternoon I’ve caught up with a friend and we’ve basically just been bouncing around Cheshire a bit. We’ve visited Winsford, Hartford, Greenbank & then ended up in Chester! Unplanned days rule!

Every trip I go on lately seems to require a change at Crewe! I mean it is the centre of the rail universe so kinda makes sense. But still, there are nicer stations to change trains at 😂

After a rail replacement bus move from Lancaster to Wigan North Weatern it’s back on the trains and on an Avanti Pendolino to head to Crewe! Now the Pendolino refurb has had time to settle in, what’s people’s thoughts the refurbs now?

Time for a short jolly! Good to see a good train service on New Year’s Day ok the Furness line! The 0631 to Windermere from Ulverston (weird!) isn’t even the first train of the day, that was the 0538 and after not going to bed until half 1 that was never going to happen 😂.