An old friend who has lived in New York for twenty years
wants to recapture his youth by making a train journey
he made regularly in the early 1960s while still at school.
I have advised him that Dr. Beeching's rationalisation of
the trunk routes coupled with privatisation more recently
means that many routes no longer offer a through journey.

The required journey is from London to Sheffield via Kettering,
Corby, Oakham, Melton Mowbray and Old Dalby. Quite clearly
this route bypasses Leicester. Does it still exist? If so, is it still
a major route to Nottingham and Sheffield? If not, can this
route be travelled by breaking the journey into sections?

Any ideas or suggestions will be very welcome.

On 2015\11\09 19:05, Robin9 wrote:
An old friend who has lived in New York for twenty years
wants to recapture his youth by making a train journey
he made regularly in the early 1960s while still at school.
I have advised him that Dr. Beeching's rationalisation of
the trunk routes coupled with privatisation more recently
means that many routes no longer offer a through journey.

The required journey is from London to Sheffield via Kettering,
Corby, Oakham, Melton Mowbray and Old Dalby. Quite clearly
this route bypasses Leicester. Does it still exist? If so, is it still
a major route to Nottingham and Sheffield? If not, can this
route be travelled by breaking the journey into sections?

Any ideas or suggestions will be very welcome.

He can get from St Pancras to Corby easily, but from there to Melton
Mowbray the trains are few and far between and require careful planning.
The Old Dalby route has no passenger service now, so he'd have to go
from Melton Mowbray to Nottingham via Loughborough.

Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\11\09 19:05, Robin9 wrote:
An old friend who has lived in New York for twenty years
wants to recapture his youth by making a train journey
he made regularly in the early 1960s while still at school.
I have advised him that Dr. Beeching's rationalisation of
the trunk routes coupled with privatisation more recently
means that many routes no longer offer a through journey.

The required journey is from London to Sheffield via Kettering,
Corby, Oakham, Melton Mowbray and Old Dalby. Quite clearly
this route bypasses Leicester. Does it still exist? If so, is it still
a major route to Nottingham and Sheffield? If not, can this
route be travelled by breaking the journey into sections?

Any ideas or suggestions will be very welcome.

He can get from St Pancras to Corby easily, but from there to Melton
Mowbray the trains are few and far between and require careful planning.
The Old Dalby route has no passenger service now, so he'd have to go
from Melton Mowbray to Nottingham via Loughborough.

It's ironic that what remains of the Old Dalby route has plenty of
passenger trains, but no passenger service. Pity he can't cadge a ride on a
new District line S7 train!

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

On 2015\11\09 19:05, Robin9 wrote:
An old friend who has lived in New York for twenty years
wants to recapture his youth by making a train journey
he made regularly in the early 1960s while still at school.
I have advised him that Dr. Beeching's rationalisation of
the trunk routes coupled with privatisation more recently
means that many routes no longer offer a through journey.

The required journey is from London to Sheffield via Kettering,
Corby, Oakham, Melton Mowbray and Old Dalby. Quite clearly this
route bypasses Leicester. Does it still exist? If so, is it still
a major route to Nottingham and Sheffield? If not, can this
route be travelled by breaking the journey into sections?

Any ideas or suggestions will be very welcome.

He can get from St Pancras to Corby easily, but from there to Melton
Mowbray the trains are few and far between and require careful
planning. The Old Dalby route has no passenger service now, so he'd
have to go from Melton Mowbray to Nottingham via Loughborough.

There is a Derby to St Pancras train Mon-Fri which runs via Melton Mowbray
and Corby, Derby d. 1636, St Pancras a. 1926. The down (or is that up to
Derby?) version starts at Corby d. 0926, Derby a. 1045. There is a separate
train from St Pancras d. 0801 to Corby a. 0911.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Many thanks. An interesting possibility.

Thank you. My friend and I will probably go that way.

In message , at 06:42:03 on Tue, 10
Nov 2015, Robin9 remarked:

The Old Dalby route has no passenger service now, so he'd have to go
from Melton Mowbray to Nottingham via Loughborough.

Thank you. My friend and I will probably go that way.


Or take the #19 bus from Melton to Nottingham, and you'll get a view of
the test track where it crosses the A46, and also the girder bridge over
the Trent (now a road).

--
Roland Perry