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Title: 11 trains in a day - has anyone here done more?
Post by: grahame on April 14, 2024, 08:44:18
11 trains yesterday; mostly went well, only one connection missed along the way.

Had me wondering - is this the most different services I have used in a day?  Has anyone used even more?

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/havedonebaltic.jpg)



Title: Re: 11 trains in a day - has anyone here done more?
Post by: bobm on April 14, 2024, 10:50:57
Ironically I can beat that!   

As you posted I was sorting my photos from a day out in Cornwall last Friday http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=28646.0 (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=28646.0).  Taking the day as a whole I travelled on 13 trains and all were, to within a minute, on time. 

The total rises to 14 if you include my train home after catching the sleeper which I caught less than 24 hours after leaving the previous day.


Title: Re: 11 trains in a day - has anyone here done more?
Post by: grahame on April 14, 2024, 11:53:14
Ironically I can beat that!

Goodness - we're as bad as each other! 

<pedant>But do you consider two rides between the same stations - there and back - as one service of two?</pedant> 

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As you posted I was sorting my photos from a day out in Cornwall last Friday http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=28646.0 (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=28646.0).  Taking the day as a whole I travelled on 13 trains and all were, to within a minute, on time. 

The total rises to 14 if you include my train home after catching the sleeper which I caught less than 24 hours after leaving the previous day.

They look good - I need to sort mine out, though they will be far less on topic for the Coffee Shop.  Having said which, I'll need to head off and get a coffee soon



Total topic change - what a pleasure it is to come here and post amongst friends.   (a.k.a. who I their right mind would be a Town Councillor ...)


Title: Re: 11 trains in a day - has anyone here done more?
Post by: old original on April 15, 2024, 09:40:53
Back in the day.....
Probably early eighties, the challenge was to ride on all the passenger lines in Cornwall on a day rover (£2.50 at the time). This was the four branches wholly within Cornwall and the main line Penzance to Saltash, the day rover didn't allow travel east of Saltash or travel before 9am.

I can't remember in which order we did it but it did involve quite a bit of doubling back, up & down the mainline, so the number used must have been in double figures.




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