On a cloudy and cool summer’s day, June 13th 2022, I ticked two stations off the list of stations in Derbyshire to visit; Chesterfield and Dronfield. My destination was Dronfield, but I had to change trains at Chesterfield on the way there and back. On the way up to Dronfield, I had to change at…… Continue reading Derbyshire Stations – Dronfield and Chesterfield
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East Midlands Ranger Area Station #50 – Alfreton
On a rather wet and miserable June morning, I ticked off my 50th of 76 stations to visit in the East Midlands Ranger Area, which means I’m now around 2/3 of the way through. I boarded the train bound for Nottingham at Burton on Trent station, and it arrived there in the pouring rain. I…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Station #50 – Alfreton
East Midlands Ranger Area Station #47 – Syston
Today, Monday 17th May 2021, I ticked off station number 47 on the list of stations in the East Midlands Ranger Area when I made the trip to Leicestershire to visit Syston (pronounced “sigh-stun”). I hadn’t been to Leicestershire since the late summer of 2019, due to the area being placed under a strict local…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Station #47 – Syston
York 2016
Way back in September 2016, I had the great idea of having a day trip out on one of my holidays from work. This was the first of what has so far proved to be many of them. I had been to York some 20 years previously on a day trip with my parents, and…… Continue reading York 2016
East Midlands Ranger Area Stations #7 & #8 – Tutbury & Hatton and Uttoxeter
While I was compiling the new index page for the blog, I noticed that I hadn’t done a post covering my trip to Tutbury & Hatton and Uttoxeter on 29th March 2019. Today, I right this wrong. A month after the Cromford adventure, I decided to tick off the next two stations on the list,…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Stations #7 & #8 – Tutbury & Hatton and Uttoxeter
Willington by Canal – September 2020
Back in those sunny, carefree and mostly lockdown-free days in September, I decided to take a walk up to Willington, a village halfway between Burton on Trent and Derby. I had walked up there before and caught the train back, and also got the train up there and walked back, but I had never gone…… Continue reading Willington by Canal – September 2020
Beeston and Nottingham
After a break of a couple of weeks, I went out on another trip on a sunny October day in 2020. I was headed for Beeston in Nottinghamshire. It isn’t a new station for me; I changed trains at Beeston back in April 2019 on my trip to Sileby in Leicestershire. I was only there…… Continue reading Beeston and Nottingham
East Midlands Ranger Area Stations #40 & #41 – Burton Joyce and Lowdham
It was a cloudy but warm September day, 16th September 2020 to be precise. I was coming towards the end of my week off work, and so I decided to tick off another two stations on the list of 76 railway stations in the East Midlands Ranger area. Whenever I book train tickets online and…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Stations #40 & #41 – Burton Joyce and Lowdham
Cromford III: Cromford & High Peak Trail
Regular readers of the blog will know how much I really like visiting Derbyshire, and Cromford in particular. Last year, I went there twice; in February on a cold and dull day, and again in September on a warm and sunny day. Today, Thursday 10th September, it was a cloudy day, but not too cold.…… Continue reading Cromford III: Cromford & High Peak Trail
East Midlands Ranger Area Station #39 – Peartree
On a cold but sunny Saturday morning, I decided to tick off station 39 on the East Midlands Ranger Area list, the tricky station that is Peartree, in Derby. Peartree gets a very limited service. It gets three trains per day from Derby, and two towards Derby on weekdays. On a Saturday, it gets two…… Continue reading East Midlands Ranger Area Station #39 – Peartree
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