European Railroad Discussion > Has anyone ever ridden all of them?

Go here:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/content/routemaps/nationalrailoperatorsmap.pdf

And ask yourself, could you ride on every single route of the railways, and if so, how long would it take you?

CPRR Wrote:
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> Go here:
>
> http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/con
> tent/routemaps/nationalrailoperatorsmap.pdf
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> And ask yourself, could you ride on every single
> route of the railways, and if so, how long would
> it take you?

It's been done...see AllTheStations on youtube. And the answer is about 6 months, although I believe it could be done in less time.

CPRR Wrote:
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> Go here:
>
> http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/con
> tent/routemaps/nationalrailoperatorsmap.pdf
>
> And ask yourself, could you ride on every single
> route of the railways, and if so, how long would
> it take you?

I've done 99% of it, while travelling on Britrail passes. This was done over eight visits (in a span of 10 years), probably amounting to six months if strung together.

I've sought out various "Parliamentary" or "ghost" trains, which are run as infrequently as once a week on rare trackage to comply with a regulatory requirement to run them -- it saves the railway the trouble of going through the formal discontinuation process. Some of these don't show on this map, which is quite simplified.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/17 18:58 by railsmith.

All the Stations won’t necessarily have covered every line, because there are a number of curves which do not have stations but which do have services.

Not sure how many passenger train miles there are in the U.K. But I've done approximately 10,600 there including heritage lines.