Railway Stations near Canals

[BCN Challenge]

Tomorrow morning I shall catch a train to a station and walk to my boat. The reverse of what I did last Thursday afternoon. Yet the station I’m using isn’t marked on this map.

 

i also note that Kings Sutton is marked. Yet there is no access from the station to the canal because there is no way of crossing the river Cherwell. At least not without getting wet.

 

It needs a little more knowledge that just pure proximity. There is a thread on this subject somewhere where I listed all the stations I had actually used to access boats. I may find it and add to the list.

 

For bus information I use www.bustimes.org

[the grinch]

7 hours ago, BCN Challenge said:

Tomorrow morning I shall catch a train to a station and walk to my boat. The reverse of what I did last Thursday afternoon. Yet the station I’m using isn’t marked on this map.

 

i also note that Kings Sutton is marked. Yet there is no access from the station to the canal because there is no way of crossing the river Cherwell. At least not without getting wet.

 

It needs a little more knowledge that just pure proximity. There is a thread on this subject somewhere where I listed all the stations I had actually used to access boats. I may find it and add to the list.

 

For bus information I use www.bustimes.org

You have to climb up the bank onto the old railway bridge, that's what I've always done 

[BCN Challenge]

1 hour ago, the grinch said:

You have to climb up the bank onto the old railway bridge, that's what I've always done 

That’s the kind of knowledge you need. I’d always taken what it says in Nicholsons as fact. Although I probably would never have used Kings Sutton station, partly because it has a relatively limited train service. Similar to Heyford which is as convenient as any station for proximity.

 

But missing are the following I have used:

 

Bromsgrove

Langley Green

Milton Keynes Central

Penkridge

Birmingham New Street

Birmingham Snow Hill

Coventry Arena

They lead to a couple of other obvious ones that I haven’t used.

 

They may not be all massively convenient but that depends upon who is making the journey and what they are carrying. Which is why train to a larger station then a bus is often a better option. 

 

I’d prefer all of them to walking the mile between Long Buckby station and Buckby locks on a road that has no footway. Bus from Northampton to Weedon or Rugby to Crick is a better bet in that area. Or even use the bus to do the one mile from Long Buckby to Buckby Wharf which is possible but not necessarily as convenient as the other options.

 

 

[David Floyd]

Thanks

 

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[Graham Davis]

Worcester has 2 stations within walking distance of the canal, Shrub Hill and Foregate St. 

[bizzard]

River Stort..  Bishops Stortford,  Sawbridgeworth, Harlow Mill, Harlow Town. Roydon. All close to the river.

[David Floyd]

Thanks

 

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[Naartjie AKA Duck Hatch]

On 29/09/2024 at 23:39, BCN Challenge said:

Tomorrow morning I shall catch a train to a station and walk to my boat. The reverse of what I did last Thursday afternoon. Yet the station I’m using isn’t marked on this map.

 

i also note that Kings Sutton is marked. Yet there is no access from the station to the canal because there is no way of crossing the river Cherwell. At least not without getting wet.

 

It needs a little more knowledge that just pure proximity. There is a thread on this subject somewhere where I listed all the stations I had actually used to access boats. I may find it and add to the list.

 

For bus information I use www.bustimes.org

"For bus information I use www.bustimes.org". Thanks very helpful site definitely going on my Book Marks.

Would be nice if www.bustimes.org could be linked to the bus stop shown on the map.... but that's a BIG ask

 

Edited October 1 by Naartjie AKA Duck Hatch

[BCN Challenge]

24 minutes ago, Naartjie AKA Duck Hatch said:

"For bus information I use www.bustimes.org". Thanks very helpful site definitely going on my Book Marks.

Would be nice if www.bustimes.org could be linked to the bus stop shown on the map.... but that's a BIG ask

 

 

Have you found the map option in bustimes.org?

 

If you’ve got a timetable up it’s a little link at the top with real time tracking. The background maps are literally that though so need a bit of interpretation to find canals but they are shown.

 

Equivalent for tracking trains visually is probably opentraintimes.com but for real time train running information realtimetrains.co.uk is much better. These are really for enthusiasts rather than the general public.

 

I much prefer stuff driven from internal industry information that I can use to calculate options rather than what the public facing apps want to tell you.

[Naartjie AKA Duck Hatch]

6 hours ago, BCN Challenge said:

Have you found the map option in bustimes.org?

 

If you’ve got a timetable up it’s a little link at the top with real time tracking. The background maps are literally that though so need a bit of interpretation to find canals but they are shown.

 

Equivalent for tracking trains visually is probably opentraintimes.com but for real time train running information realtimetrains.co.uk is much better. These are really for enthusiasts rather than the general public.

 

I much prefer stuff driven from internal industry information that I can use to calculate options rather than what the public facing apps want to tell you.

Wow that's neat... very useful thanks

[Scholar Gypsy]

On 29/09/2024 at 17:12, Richard T said:

Long Eaton is not far from the Erewash. Likewise Ilkeston. What about Beeston? Wilncote is the nearest station to Fazeley junction. There are two stations in Rugeley Trent Valley and Town. Also Lichfield. You've missed Coventry. Don't be tempted to add Polesworth - it may have a station but only one train a week stops there!! Also the three main stations in Birmingham plus others in the surrounding area.

For Heritage railways there is Loughborough Central, and Shenton Market Bosworth and Shackerstone on the Battlefield line.

Radcliffe on Trent may be near the river Trent but access to it from the river is not possible.

I think Shippea Hill really is only one train a week. One could add Manea on the Ely to March line, which is walkable from the Sixteen foot drain....

And I think there is a second station in Gainsborough.

And the new station at Soham is walkable from Wicken Fen .... As is perhaps Newmarket from Reach and Burwell.

this is great fun ...

[David Floyd]

1 minute ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

think Shippea Hill really is only one train a week. One could add Manea on the Ely to March line, which is walkable from the Sixteen foot drain....

And I think there is a second station in Gainsborough.

And the new station at Soham is walkable from Wicken Fen .... As is perhaps Newmarket from Reach and Burwell.

Thank you Simon

 

i will investigate 

 

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[Momac]

32 minutes ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

And I think there is a second station in Gainsborough.
 

[David Floyd]

That takes us to 346 stations..

 

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[Tim Lewis]

On 28/09/2024 at 14:59, David Floyd said:

 

Lots of railway lines run near the canals as they shared a common problem, Canal don't like hills and neither did early Railways trains, so there is a tendency to find them following similar routes.

 

In one of the groups on Facebook it was suggested that we should includes railway stations that are near the canals on our maps. We had used railway stations in the past as good places to meet up with people coming onboard for this very reason, so this started a new set of locations to add to the maps.

 

So far we have added 290 railway stations that are near enough to the canals to be useful, they have been added to the Everything Map and any other maps of individual canals, I will update the canal rings maps as I get time.

 

Just gad a Quick Look at the London ones, some obvious ones such as Paddington, Warwick Avenue and Limehouse are missing plus I would say that Essex Road and Kentish Town are nit that close to the canal

[David Floyd]

10 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

Just gad a Quick Look at the London ones, some obvious ones such as Paddington, Warwick Avenue and Limehouse are missing plus I would say that Essex Road and Kentish Town are nit that close to the canal

Thanks Tim

 

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[Gybe Ho]

Do you plan to distinguish heritage/steam strain stations from regular network stations?

 

I ask because earlier someone suggested Wansford station and this could cause confusion. A boater moored on the Nene at Fotheringhay who needed to get to London or Edinburgh would be advised to head straight to the more distant Peterborough station rather than hope the occasional steam train excursion might depart Wansford for Peterborough.

[David Floyd]

At the moment this heritage/steam station are green icons and I have included in the popup into that they are not mainline stations.. but have I missed any, please let me know.

 

Ta

 

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[Tim Lewis]

On 02/10/2024 at 18:58, David Floyd said:

Thanks Tim

 

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Good to see updated but I would note that you have out Limehouse c2c station in Greenwich!

[David Floyd]

8 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:

Good to see updated but I would note that you have out Limehouse c2c station in Greenwich!

Opps thanks, fixed now 🙂

 

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