Visiting Every Station 🇬🇧

🤔 has anyone either got or produced one map that shows the valid areas of all the different rail rover and ranger tickets? I know there are maps showing the validity of individual tickets but I can't find one that covers all of the different tickets in one place 🙏🏼

1️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ • Bʀɪɢɢ ✅ After a short walk along a really lovely high street, I've arrived at a station that I'm struggling to describe. Bland? Desolate? It's certainly lacking any character and needs some TLC. Anyway, I'll soon be leaving on the last train of the day 😔 @IBLRG

Thankfully, the @HornsbyTravel route 94 bus has just arrived to take me off to my next station! 🙌🏻

1️⃣4️⃣6️⃣ • Kɪʀᴛᴏɴ Lɪɴᴅsᴇʏ ✅ I've come one stop along the line to the sixth least-used station in Great Britain, but *two* other passengers got off here today as well! However, my only option for reaching my final new station today is to go and catch a bus...🚍 @IBLRG

1️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ • Gᴀɪɴsʙᴏʀᴏᴜɢʜ Cᴇɴᴛʀᴀʟ ✅ I visited the other station here [Lea Road] last year so I've taken a short walk from there to reach this one, and am hoping to soon be on the one train a day towards Cleethorpes 🤞🏻 @IBLRG

1️⃣4️⃣4️⃣ • Rᴇᴛғᴏʀᴅ ✅ First up today is this rather charming station on the East Coast Main Line. The historic buildings here are lovely but it's the first station I've come across where two of the four platforms feel quite so separate from the others! 🤔

😆 We're off to a good start! I'd never normally look to make a -1 connection with a platform change as well but it just about worked this morning and, so far, the trains I'm looking to use later on look to be running! 🤞🏻

🚨 I've got a rather ambitious plan to visit four new stations tomorrow *but* I'm relying on a train arriving early to make a connection, and then the one-train-a-day in each direction actually running 🙏🏼 I'm aiming for @IBLRG @NNLCRP but who knows where I'll end up 🤣

1️⃣4️⃣3️⃣ • Kᴇʟᴠᴇᴅᴏɴ ✅ And this will have to be my final station for today, but it's one that is predominantly used by those commuting to London. The footbridge here was fully refurbished last year and the car park now extends well beyond the length of Platform 2 😅

1️⃣4️⃣2️⃣ • Cʜᴇʟᴍsғᴏʀᴅ ✅ I've made it back to the Great Eastern Mainline and to what must be one of the busiest stations with only two platforms! The old signal box here hasn't been in use for nearly 30 years but it still stands above Platform 2 and is now Grade II listed 🙌🏻

1️⃣4️⃣1️⃣ • Cʟᴀᴄᴛᴏɴ-ᴏɴ-Sᴇᴀ ✅ Today's first station completes the Sunshine (where are you?!) Coast Line. Home to a famous annual airshow, this is a popular destination for summer day trips to the seaside. There's also a train maintenance depot next to the station itself 🔧

The 720s aren't a personal favourite of mine but I'll be using them to visit a few more stations across Essex today...🚊

1️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ • Gʀᴇᴀᴛ Bᴇɴᴛʟᴇʏ ✅ If you want to see the largest village green in England, then come here - it's 43 acres! Plus, in the station gardens there is also a Bee Hotel, which children from the primary school just across the road helped to create 🐝

It's another day where I've only got time to visit one more station. However, my journey today may just cross with somebody who is much, much closer to completing this very same challenge of visiting every station on the UK rail network! 👀

This does not sound good 😔