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Whats your favorite rail line? 14/04/2013 at 20:19 #43468
Rickurd
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I thought I would give this a go. List your favorite or more than 1 favorite line. I'll start it off :)

Midland Mainline - UK
Bristol to Birmingham - UK
West Highland Line - UK

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Whats your favorite rail line? 14/04/2013 at 20:33 #43469
vontrapp
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West Coast: Manchester to Euston
East Midlands St Pancras to Sheffield
East Coast: Kings X to Leeds
Cross Country: Manchester to Bristol
Great Western: Bristol to Paddington

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Whats your favorite rail line? 14/04/2013 at 20:52 #43470
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Whichever one takes me home from work B)
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Whats your favorite rail line? 14/04/2013 at 21:13 #43471
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St. Pancras - Sheffield - Midland Main Line.
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Whats your favorite rail line? 14/04/2013 at 21:33 #43472
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Fort William - Mallaig
Perth - Inverness

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 00:04 #43475
Temple Meads
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Exeter - Newton Abbot (as long as it's on an HST)
Reading - Paddington
Bristol - Severn Beach (a hell of a lot of variety for very little money)

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 10:50 #43487
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WCML - Liverpool to Euston (And every station in between!)
Derby to Crewe Line - Plenty to see and a personal favourite of mine
Preston to Ormskirk Line - Nice bit of old line with Single line working in full view

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 12:27 #43490
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As you did not say main line or preserved line I will list one of each that i like

Main Line has to be The Settle Carlisle line

Preserved would be North York Moors followed closely by The Welsh Highland Railway

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 13:35 #43491
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Golden Valley - Swindon - Gloucester

Settle & Carlisle

North Cotswolds - Oxford - Hereford

South Devon along the seawall - Exeter - Newton Abbott

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 15:20 #43494
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Has to be for me Croydon To London Bridge/London Victoria on the fast line via Clapham Junction
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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 15:28 #43495
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In Ireland

Dublin Heuston - Cork
Dublin Connolly - Belfast
Dublin Connolly - Roslare Europort

In the UK

Holyhead - Manchester

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 16:15 #43498
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In Ireland

Dublin Heuston - Cork
Dublin Connolly - Belfast
Dublin Connolly - Roslare Europort…
I can certainly agree with the last one, even staying within Dublin. The line through Killiney down to Greystones is just amazing! Parts of the route out to Maynooth are nice too (at least once you pass Broombridge – that’s one dire station!)

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 16:36 #43500
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Birmingham to stansted-uk- obviously
Nottingham to cardiff central-uk
inverness to Kyle of lochalsh- uk
Southampton to edinburgh- uk
midland mainline- uk
West coast mainline- uk
HS1- UK/France/belguim

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 17:15 #43512
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Cologne to Frankfurt along the river Rhine
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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 17:37 #43517
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" said:
" said:
In Ireland

Dublin Heuston - Cork
Dublin Connolly - Belfast
Dublin Connolly - Roslare Europort…
I can certainly agree with the last one, even staying within Dublin. The line through Killiney down to Greystones is just amazing! Parts of the route out to Maynooth are nice too (at least once you pass Broombridge – that’s one dire station!)
haha yeah Broombridge, Ashtown, Navan Road and Castleknock are a terrible strech of railway. Beruit comes to to mind.

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Whats your favorite rail line? 15/04/2013 at 18:52 #43532
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Going from Bolton to Paris for my tea, for 2 hrs and then back
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Whats your favorite rail line? 16/04/2013 at 15:00 #43567
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Anywhere north of Glasgow Queen Street for me. Like Glasgow to Aberdeen , up to Inverness , Personal favourite of mine is the West Highland Line to Oban/Fort William/Mallaig. Wonderful scenery whatever the weather. Exception being when its foggy or very low cloud.
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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 09:40 #43816
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In Australia
Melbourne to Sydney

In The UK
Manningtree to Harwich
ECML KX to Edinburgh

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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 09:49 #43817
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In Australia
Melbourne To Sydney
IN the UK
ECML Kx to Edinburgh
Harwich To Manningtree

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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 17:09 #43823
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Settle & Carlisle line has to be my number one. Thereafter, a combination of:

Carlisle - Barrow - Lancaster.
Ayr - Stranraer.
Manchester/Crewe - Chester - Holyhead.
Llandudno - Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Newxcastle - Edinburgh - Dundee - Aberdeen.
Shrewsbury - Aberystwyth.
Newcastle - Carlisle.

Haven't done any of the really spectacular Scottish ones (Inverness - Kyle/Far North, Perth - Inverness or Glasgow - Oban/ Mallaig via Fort Bill) so haven't included them.

New York - Washington via Philadelphia is probably my favourite non-UK trip.

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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 18:31 #43830
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Wherever I end up in life, I'll never forget the line from Exeter - Penzance and all the branches down here in (sunny) Devon. I was rather fond of the S&C though, and the Blaenau Ffestiniog branch was spectacular.
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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 21:08 #43846
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Let's start with:

* Chester - Holyhead
* Shrewsbury - Machynlleth
* Sheffield - Stockport
* Stockport - Chester

Then you have:

* Bruxelles Midy - Koln
* Koln - Zurich
* Chur - Poschiavo (Bermian - Express)
* Chur - Brig - Zermatt

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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 21:22 #43848
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I notice no one has yet to mention any modern high speed lines
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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 21:54 #43851
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I notice no one has yet to mention any modern high speed lines :P
I've never ridden on any that would qualify, but I've not heard much good about HS1 from a scenic point of view.

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Whats your favorite rail line? 22/04/2013 at 22:04 #43852
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I notice no one has yet to mention any modern high speed lines :P
I've never ridden on any that would qualify, but I've not heard much good about HS1 from a scenic point of view.
True, but technically any line with a ruling linespeed of more than 124MPH is classed as a high speed line :P

Although some classic high speed lines have been mentioned

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