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Trivia: Crossing county lines?

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Cherry_Picker

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I wonder what the longest run of stations is where each station is in a different county to the next? I’m saying consecutive stations rather than services which skip stations. I’ll allow stations in a row where no trains are currently timetabled to serve. Any definition of a county is fine but current boundaries trump historical ones.

With that in mind I can offer 5:

Haddenham & Thame Parkway (Buckinghamshire)
Bicester North (Oxfordshire)
Kings Sutton (Northamptonshire)
Banbury (Oxfordshire)
Leamington Spa (Warwickshire)

before the NUCKLE upgrades saw Kenilworth open in 2018 that could have been extended to 7 with Coventry (West Midlands) and Bedworth (Warwickshire).
 
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Courtesy of an administrative boundary change, another run of 5 that I can think of is Tisbury (Wiltshire), Gillingham (Dorset), Templecombe (Somerset), Sherborne (Dorset), Yeovil Junction (Somerset).
 

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Huntingdon (historical Huntingdonshire), Peterborough (Camridgeshire or Northants depending on era), Stamford (Lincs), Oakham (Rutland).Melton Mowbray (Leics)

Or Huntingdon, Peterborough, Grantham (Lincs), Bottesford (Leics), Elton & Orston (Notts)
 

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Another 5.

Alloa (Clacks)
Stirling (Stirling)
Larbert (Falkirk)
Croy (North Lanark)
Lenzie (Glasgow)
 

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Sandhurst (Berks)
Blackwater (Surrey)
Farnborough North (Hampshire)
North Camp (Surrey)
 

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Blackwater (Surrey)
Farnborough North (Hampshire)
North Camp (Surrey)
I was looking for something in this vein too, but Blackwater station is (just) in Hampshire.

Huntingdon (historical Huntingdonshire), Peterborough (Camridgeshire or Northants depending on era), Stamford (Lincs), Oakham (Rutland).Melton Mowbray (Leics)

Or Huntingdon, Peterborough, Grantham (Lincs), Bottesford (Leics), Elton & Orston (Notts)
Do you want to start the campaign to reopen Essendine (Rutland) so we can get the second of these to 6 or shall I? :D
 

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Ash Vale (Surrey)
Aldershot (Hants)
Farnham (Surrey)
Bentley (Hants)
 

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Another 5.

Alloa (Clacks)
Stirling (Stirling)
Larbert (Falkirk)
Croy (North Lanark)
Lenzie (Glasgow)
Lenzie (and indeed, Bishopbriggs) are actually East Dunbartonshire, so an Alloa-Glasgow service will pass through/stop in six council areas/counties. On a semi-related note, wasn't there a line that crossed and recrossed the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic numerous times?
 

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On a semi-related note, wasn't there a line that crossed and recrossed the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic numerous times?
The Clones-Cavan line crossed the border six times between Clones and the adjoining station of Redhills. The Bundoran Junction-Bundoran branch crossed the border three times: either side of Pettigo and just west of Belleek. (Source: Johnson’s Atlas & Gazetteer.)
 

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Another 5.

Alloa (Clacks)
Stirling (Stirling)
Larbert (Falkirk)
Croy (North Lanark)
Lenzie (East Dumbarton)
Taking advantage of the 'no current service', The station before Alloa is (currently) Dunfermline Town in Fife so technically 6 in a row.
 

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Peterborough (Cambs)
Stamford (Lincs)
Oakham (Rutland)
Melton Mowbray (Leics).
 
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