The year 2021 on this blog was meant to finish on 29th November with a trip to Melton Mowbray, but a heavy dusting of snow in the Midlands put a premature end to this year's blog adventures. Luckily I had something else up my sleeve, my now-annual trip to Cromford which I took at the … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Cromford
The weather is getting colder, seeing as it's nearly winter. It's still sunny at times, though, and it was on Wednesday 17th November 2021 when I travelled through four counties to Bottesford, in the north east corner of Leicestershire. As usual, because I live there, the trip started in Burton on Trent. I changed trains … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Bottesford, Leicestershire
Last year, when I visited Longton near Stoke-on-Trent, my train passed through Stone railway station. At the time, I said that I would quite like to visit Stone, and so I made it happen on Friday 12th November 2021. I had originally planned to visit Stone at the end of July this year, but a … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Stone, Staffordshire
On a grey and windy autumn day, 28th October 2021, I ticked off station number 58 of 76 on the East Midlands Ranger Area list when I travelled to Langley Mill in Derbyshire. As usual, I caught the train from Burton on Trent, then changed at Nottingham. The bulk of my travels have been with … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Langley Mill & Eastwood
When I started the East Midlands Ranger Area challenge in February 2019, I soon discovered that some railway stations would be easier to visit than others. Some of them have a regular hourly or half-hourly service, some have more trains at peak time (morning and afternoon) than they have during the day, and then there's … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Polesworth
Now that I am into the last twenty of the 76 stations in the East Midlands Ranger Area challenge, most of the unvisited ones are further away from home. Yesterday, 6th October 2021, I crossed off stations 55 and 56 in the far north of Derbyshire. They were at Whitwell and Creswell, located a few … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Whitwell and Creswell
On Monday 13th September 2021, I had a ride on some of the Nottingham Express Transit tram network, which stretches from Toton Lane in the south west of Nottingham, up to Hucknall in the north, and also down to Clifton in the south. Like many towns and cities in the United Kingdom, Nottingham had its … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Nottingham Express Transit
The second leg of the WOW (Week Off Work) Tour 2021 occurred on a Saturday morning, 11th September 2021. I took the train to Rolleston and Fiskerton stations in Nottinghamshire, on the line between Crewe and Newark Castle. These were stations number 53 and 54 on the East Midlands Ranger Area challenge. It was an … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Rolleston and Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire
It was a warm and sunny summer's day in August 2021, the 23rd to be precise, when I made the long trip to Hinckley in Leicestershire by train. It isn't very far, but I had to take three trains there and three back. The first leg of the journey began at Burton on Trent. The … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Hinckley (featuring Nuneaton)
After an absence of nearly six weeks, I went back on the trains again this Saturday morning (7th August 2021) to tick off station number 51 on the East Midlands Ranger Area list, Radcliffe on Trent in Nottinghamshire. The trip started in the morning, just before 8 o'clock, at Burton on Trent station. I caught … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Radcliffe on Trent
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