The next station is...!

[Class172]

Doesn't Eagle have to post the next starting station now?

 

[Eagle]

Indeed I do. Let's keep this unpredictable and start at Crewe.

 

[MK Tom]

Can we go direct to Milton Keynes Central on the service from Chester?

 

[Class172]

To Watford Junction on a LM 350 (CRE-EUS).

 

[adtrainz]

22 points to Eagle for the first leg.

Harrow and Wealdstone with Southern.

 

[Eagle]

Headstone Lane with LO.

Now we know exactly where this game's going to end, it's all a question of timing.

 

[gnolife]

Hatch End. 378. LO

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carpenders Park by London Overground

 

[ole man]

Watford High Street on LO

 

[Class172]

Watford High Street on LO

Invalid Move: skipped Bushey.

 

[ole man]

Ok Bushey on LO

 

[Class172]

Now to Watford High Street on a LO 378.

 

[Eagle]

No more valid moves. And the points go to Class172!

9 stations, 9 points (am I counting right?)

 

[Class172]

Okay, we shall start at... Hellifield.

 

[ole man]

Then we shall jump on a Northern service to Long Preston

 

[Class172]

Onwards to Settle with one of northern's 3tpd to Carlisle.

 

[ole man]

Looking at the scenery as we trundle to Horton-in-Ribblesdale

 

[Class172]

And thence to Ribblehead.

 

[ole man]

Across the viaduct, through the 1 mile 869 yds Blea Moor tunnel upwards to Dent

 

[Class172]

Upto the next station Garsdale where the closed Hawes branch leaves the line.

 

[ole man]

Up and over Ais Gill summit past the long closed signal box into Kirkby Stephen

 

[Class172]

Appleby (Cumbria) is our next station stop.

 

[ole man]

Now for the long trek past the disused Eden Valley Line, through the closed Long Marton station past the British Gypsum plant into Langwathby

 

[Class172]

Then onto Lazonby and Kirkoswald .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Onwards to Armathwaite

 

[Temple Meads]

Now we are in Carlisle

 

[Class172]

Then to Lockerbie on a FTPE 185.

 

[Eagle]

Same train; the next stop is Haymarket.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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[Class172]

Then to Edinburgh Waverley on an XC 220.