On a sunny and warm May Saturday, the 20th, I took a rare Saturday afternoon trip to rural Nottinghamshire, to tick off station number 74 on the East Midlands Ranger Area list, Elton and Orston. The only other Saturday afternoon trip I can remember making was to Netherfield and Carlton, also in Nottinghamshire, back in…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Station #74 – Elton and Orston
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Monthly News – May 2023
Spring is in the air, in spite of the cold weather that has been happening in the Midlands recently. April was a busy old month for the blog, so here’s a recap of where I have been in the past month. Narborough Narborough railway station I first visited Narborough way back in June 2019, when…… Continue reading Monthly News – May 2023
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
Blog Review of the Year 2022 – Part Three: July – September
Welcome to the third (of four) instalments of the Review of the Year 2022. You can catch up with part one here, and part two here. July 2022 I didn’t go anywhere in July 2022. It was far too hot. August 2022 It was just as hot in August 2022, but I managed to venture…… Continue reading Blog Review of the Year 2022 – Part Three: July – September
Blog Review of the Year 2022 – Part Two: April – June
After the relentless opening three months of the year, which you can catch up on here, the Martyn’s Blog juggernaut ploughed on through the spring at pace, with two posts a week most weeks. April 2022 April began with a cold and frosty Saturday morning trip to Penkridge in Staffordshire. It’s a beautiful old village,…… Continue reading Blog Review of the Year 2022 – Part Two: April – June
East Midlands Ranger Area Station #68 – South Wigston
For the first time since I went to Worksop two months ago, I ticked one of the few remaining stations off the East Midlands Ranger Area list when I travelled to South Wigston station in Leicestershire on Friday 26th August. The trip to South Wigston took three trains and two hours. I changed at Tamworth…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Station #68 – South Wigston
Albert Village Lake, Leicestershire
On Thursday 19th May, I had a walk around Albert Village lake, a large nature reserve on the site of a former clay pit in the Leicestershire village of Albert Village, just a short walk over the Derbyshire border from Swadlincote. Albert Village grew in the 1870s as the clay mining and pottery industry in…… Continue reading Albert Village Lake, Leicestershire
East Midlands Ranger Area Station #65 – Melton Mowbray
On Monday 25th April, I visited Melton Mowbray at the third attempt. My first attempt in November was thwarted by the weather, my second in January was ended by a cancelled train, but there were no such problems this time, apart from another cancelled train. I was able to catch an earlier one, so it…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Station #65 – Melton Mowbray
Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part Four (October to December)
The autumn began with another week off work, but only two trips during that time (I was suffering from a cold). October 2021 The first trip was a double-header to North Derbyshire to visit Whitwell and Creswell on a nice sunny day. They are former mining villages, and Creswell has a “model village”; a housing…… Continue reading Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part Four (October to December)
Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part Three (July to September)
The long, hot summer of 2021 proved to be too long and too hot to travel for me. I only went to one place in July, but normal service resumed in August. July 2021 Oaks Wood, a nature walk in Burton on Trent, was the venue for the only post in July. The trail runs…… Continue reading Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part Three (July to September)
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