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Passenger Lines Travelled Over

A passenger line is as defined in the Rail Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland. A line which has least one passenger service per day in each direction and is coloured black in the atlas. Tramways, Underground and Private Railways have been excluded.

Lines are listed in the order they appear in the Rail Atlas.

All Lines have been travelled over except those listed below:

Lines in use in 1980 (Rail Atlas 3rd Edition) and still in passenger use

  • Willesden Jn Low Level - Kensal Green Jn
  • Cathcart North Jn – Cathcart East Jn (Southbound direction only) (Glasgow)

 

Lines constructed or brought back into passenger use since 1980

  • Ashford International connections to CTRL travelling to and from Channel Tunnel

  • Ashford International new single line connection from Maidstone East line

  • Shortlands to Beckenham Jn new single line link 

  • Springhead Jn – Ebbsfleet – CTRL (both directions)

  • St Pancras Thameslink – East Coast Mainline connections both directions

  • Aylesbury – Aylesbury Vale Parkway

  • Allington East Jn – Allington North Jn (Grantham) 

  • Cambus – Alloa

 

Lines under construction

  • Dalston Jn - New Cross and New Cross Gate
  • Millerhill West Jn - Galashields
  • Drumgelloch – Bathgate

 

Through Lines with no passenger service

Lines not travelled over:

  • Southfleet Jn - Fawkham Jn (Swanley)
  • Selhurst Jn – Norwood Jn (Selhurst) 

  • Hanwell Jn – Drayton Green Jn (West Ealing) 

  • Metropolitan Jn – Stoney St Jn (London Bridge)
  • Canterbury Road Jn - Loughborough Jn (Brixton) 

  • St Pancras International to North London Line link

  • St Pancras International to East Coast Mainline link

  • North London Line to CTRL link

  • Filton Jn – Filton West Jn (Bristol) 

  • North Somerset Jn – Bristol West Jn (via St Phillips Marsh) (Bristol)

  • Aylesbury Vale Parkway – Claydon L.N.E. Jn (Aylesbury) 

  • Bletchley Flyover Jn – Fenny Stratford Flyover Jn 

  • Thorpe Swing Bridge - Wensum Jn (Norwich)
  • English Bridge Jn – Abbey Foregate Jn (Shrewsbury) 

  • Lichfield TV Jn – Lichfield Goods Loop Jn
  • Gresty Lane Jn - Salop Goods Jn (Crewe)
  • Crewe Railway Age - Basford Hall (North) (Crewe)
  • Meadow Lane Jn - Trent South Jn (via Flyover) (Nottingham)
  • Pyewipe Jn - Boultham Jn (Lincoln)
  • Rotherham Central Jn – Woodburn Jn
  • Northenden Jn – Hazel Grove HL Jn

  • Philips Park No2 – Baguley Fold Jn (Ashton under Lyne)

  • Derby Square Jn – Paradise Jn (Liverpool) 

  • Adwick Jn & Carcroft Jn - Stainforth Jn (Doncaster) 

  • Applehurst Jn – Joan Croft Jn (Doncaster) 

  • Decoy South Jn – St Catherines Jn (Doncaster)

  • Decoy up yard – St Catherines Jn (Doncaster)

  • Bridge Jn – St James’s Jn (Doncaster)

  • Flyover East Jn – Loversall Carr Jn (Doncaster)

  • Brocklesby Jn – Ulceby (Immingham)

  • Ulceby – Immingham – Marsh West Jn
  • Selby West Jn - Selby Canal Jn 

  • Bog Jn – London Rd Jn (Carlisle)

  • Bedlington North Jn – Morpeth Jn & Morpeth North Jn

  • Norwood Jn – Low Fell Jn (Newcastle)

  • Niddrie West Jn – Niddrie South Jn (Edinburgh)

  • Inverkeithing North Jn – Inverkeithing East Jn

  • Shields Jn – High St Jn (Glasgow)
  • Hyndland N Jn - Hyndland W Jn  (Glasgow)

  • Larkfield Jn – Muirhouse South Jn (Glasgow)
  • Terminus Jn - Muirhouse Central Jn  (Glasgow)

  • Alloa – Dunfermline Town

Ireland

All passenger lines have been travelled over except:

  • Glounthaurne – Midleton

  • Newcomen Jn – Docklands

All through freight lines have been travelled over.