On a dull April day, Wednesday 19th, I visited another railway station in South Yorkshire, in the former steel town of Penistone. Penistone is just west of Barnsley. I caught the direct train from Burton on Trent to Sheffield, then had a short wait there for a train on the Penistone Line which runs between…… Continue reading South Yorkshire stations – Penistone
Month: April 2023
Cross-City Line – University & Alvechurch
It has been a short while since I last visited the Cross-City Line which runs from Lichfield Trent Valley to Bromsgrove and Redditch, and so I took a trip on Wednesday 12th April to Alvechurch, via University. The train was a lot busier than usual, because it was the Easter holidays. Normally, if I was…… Continue reading Cross-City Line – University & Alvechurch
Narborough
If you are a regular reader of this blog, since it began in 2019, you may remember that I visited Narborough in the summer of that year, ticking it off the East Midlands Ranger Area list along with Nuneaton and Leicester on a wet day. I liked it there, despite the weather, so on Monday…… Continue reading Narborough
Monthly News – April 2023
Welcome to this month’s blog news. The Martyn’s Blog train has been rolling on during March, with trips to South Yorkshire, the West Midlands, Nottingham and Lincoln. Mexborough & Swinton First up on the 2nd March was another journey to South Yorkshire, to the former mining towns of Mexborough and Swinton, between Rotherham and Doncaster.…… Continue reading Monthly News – April 2023
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