Your choice of places to visit - 2016.

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[grahame]

The top ten places in the world to visit are listed in the Rough Guide - see newspaper listing of them. Just one in the British Isles.

But where would YOU visit - for pleasure trips - by rail in the British Isles?  Choose five, at least one of which (to keep us on forum subject) must be vaguely "Across the West"

[grahame]

My starter ... for some of the top opportunities I would take up ...

Portrush
Southport
Pevensey Bay
Lisselton
Pembroke Dock

[LiskeardRich]

I will be choosing to visit Gunnislake and Looe, as haven't had the pleasure in a few years for riding those branch lines.

Anywhere different in general for me. I like to spontaneously explore. I will go out for the day with a Rover bus or rail ticket and have no plans - The only thing I check is that it is possible to get home from wherever I go a few minutes before I get on the bus or train

[JayMac]

Limerick Junction
Wick
Caernarfon
Gunnislake (as I had to pick one in the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) area it'll have to be the one line I've only travelled once before)
Pickering

[SandTEngineer]

Portishead
Marsh Barton
Wootton Bassett
Reading Green Park
Wimslow

.....oh b****r, you did say in 2016....

[bobm]

I am not really an overseas type and there is so much of this country I want to visit - sometimes for the second or third time to catch up on things I missed on the first or second occasion.

In no particular order

Minehead
Matlock
Great Yarmouth
Stranraer
Ardrossan Harbour

[grahame]

In order to keep this as a family outing, I've asked Lisa for her five.  And that adds
Carlisle (via Settle)
Fort William
Penzance
Portsmouth Harbour
York

Billy (and Gypsy) have added theirs too
Billy (of course) agrees Fort William
Billericay
Gypsy Lane
Gipsy Hill
Barking

[Sam290893]

My top 5 would be..

London
Plymouth
Newcastle
Liverpool
Glasgow

And I would go by train to these as when you book in advance you can get really cheap tickets and plus I have a railcard also 👍🏼

[eightf48544]

5 not sure they are top

Exmouth (relative)
Leeds
Burton upon Trent (boat blacking)
Stranraer by train to get some of the last Token working.
Pitlochry

Real top

Harz system

[PhilWakely]

My top 5 would be.........

Corrour;
Tyndrum Lower;
St Bees;
Bere Ferrers;
Sugar Loaf.

Purely for photographic reasons.

[BerkshireBugsy]

I would like to visit some places which are on branch lines I have never explored..so in this case the motivation is the journey rather than the destination

I would have included Henley On Thames but did this end of 2015

So...for 2016...

Marlow branch line
Severn Beach Line
Severn Valley Line
Oxford to Marylebone (may have to wait a bit)

Thatcham to Penrith (Via Euston)...this has a different motivation because the only  hotel I choose to stay at (rather than the ones I get told to stay at) is at the Northern end of the Lakes.

[JayMac]

Severn Beach Line

Stop off at Shirehampton and I'll buy you a pint in The Lamplighters!

[BerkshireBugsy]

Severn Beach Line

Stop off at Shirehampton and I'll buy you a pint in The Lamplighters!

I may just take you up on that! I hope my excitement ref travelling on the Servern Beach line is well founded - years ago when I lived in South Wales occasionally I would take the back road from the bridge to Bristol which I believe takes you near Severn Beach

[Andy]

For 2016:
Okehampton
Kidderminster (for SVR)
Fort William
Fowey
Didcot (or maybe Swindon)

[TeaStew]

Fort William seems to be coming up quite a bit! Indeed, it is on my list too.

I am hoping to visit Scotland for my honeymoon this summer and we are planning to train as much as we can as whisky the rest. My list is something like:

London Euston
Fort William
Mallaig
Somewhere else in Scotland (any suggestions?)
Across the west, I would like to visit Salisbury this year - it has been a while.