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DerekC

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If I am reading the track layout right in relation to the itinerary, after:

New Hadley Halt

and a series of open stations ending with Bilbrook, we should have diverged at Stafford Road Junction and shortly after passed through the closed station of

Dunstall Park

Update - on further reading and consulting maps, it seems that the station of Stafford Road was actually at what became the junction, so we would have passed through it. Apologies to @A Challenge. It's a complicated piece of history!!
 
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OBSERVATION

The Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway began at Wolverhampton High Level so to reach that line, which is the next line of this journey from the line we had been on, we would have left that line at the Stafford Road station and took the connection line to the first closed station on the Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway which was.....

Heath Town
 
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OBSERVATION

The Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway began at Wolverhampton High Level so to reach that line, which is the next line of this journey from the line we had been on, we would have left that line at the Stafford Road station and took the connection line to the first closed station on the Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway
According to the original version of the itinerary we were to travel via Wolverhampton Low Level which we could have done, there being a chord from the GWR east of the station to the Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway.
 

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According to the original version of the itinerary we were to travel via Wolverhampton Low Level which we could have done, there being a chord from the GWR east of the station to the Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway.
I did the change as a matter of courtesy, having noted a discussion on the thread and wished to clarify matters for future reference.
 

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We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 1089 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Heckmondwike Central .... note that Rule 4 applies to this station
It follows the line of the LYR Spen Valley Line
It then follows the line of the LYR Pickle Bridge Line
It then follows the line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway
It then follows the line of the West Riding and Grimsby Railway
It then follows the line of the Barnsley Coal Railway
It then follows the line of the SYR Blackburn Valley Line
It then follows the line of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway
It then follows the line of the MR "New Road" Line
It then follows the line of the North Midland Railway
It then follows the line of the MR Erewash Valley Line
It then follows the line of the Midland Counties Railway
It then follows the line of the Rugby and Stamford Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Ketton and Collyweston

The first closed station on this journey is Heckmondwike Central
 

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