Round The World and other travels

Getting around

All journey segments on this trip were completed using public transport. For the purposes of this record, the cross-border segments are shown as starting and finishing in Edinburgh.

	Day	Date	Mode	Operator	From	Dep	To	Arr	Comments
1	Wed	01-Oct	Train	East Coast	Edinburgh	1130	York	1353	Highland Chieftain, 1st class
2	Thu	02-Oct	Train	Northern Rail	York	1011	Harrogate	1043
3	Fri	03-Oct	Bus	Transdev H&D	Harrogate	0940	Ripley	0953	Service 36 'City Connect'
4	Fri	03-Oct	Bus	Transdev H&D	Ripley	1312	Harewood	1353	Service 36 'City Connect'
5	Fri	03-Oct	Bus	Transdev H&D	Harewood	1642	Harrogate	1709	Service 36 'City Connect'
6	Sat	04-Oct	Train	Northern Rail	Harrogate	1014	Leeds	1052
7	Sat	04-Oct	Train	Cross Country	Leeds	1111	Sheffield	1152	To Plymouth
8	Sun	05-Oct	Bus	Stagecoach	Eccleshall Rd	1607	Arundel Gate	1621	Service 88
9	Mon	06-Oct	Tram	Stagecoach	City Hall	1007	Station-Hallam	1013	Blue Line
10	Mon	06-Oct	Train	Cross Country	Sheffield	1047	York	1139	To Edinburgh
11	Tue	07-Oct	Bus	Yorkshire Coastliner	York	0936	Pickering	1044	Service 840
12	Tue	07-Oct	Bus	Yorkshire Coastliner	Pickering	1112	Eden Camp	1128	Service 840
13	Tue	07-Oct	Bus	Yorkshire Coastliner	Eden Camp	1328	Malton	1336	Service 840
14	Tue	07-Oct	Bus	Yorkshire Coastliner	Malton	1501	Pickering	1524	Service 840
15	Wed	08-Oct	Train	NYMR	Pickering	0930	Whitby	1110	Steam operated
16	Thu	09-Oct	Train	Northern Rail	Whitby	0850	Middlesbrough	1017	Esk Valley line
17	Thu	09-Oct	Train	Northern Rail	Middlesbrough	1022	Darlington	1052	To Bishop Auckland
18	Thu	09-Oct	Train	Cross Country	Darlington	1100	Durham	1115	To Glasgow
19	Fri	10-Oct	Bus	Stanley Travel	Leazes Road	1204	Durham Station	1209	Service 40
20	Fri	10-Oct	Train	East Coast	Durham	1325	Newcastle	1342	1st class
21	Fri	10-Oct	Train	East Coast	Newcastle	1352	Edinburgh	1521	1st class

National Rail
TOP ROW (left to right): 1. Southbound 'Highland Chieftain'  2 and 3. Newly arrived at Harrogate, by Northern Rail  4. My Harrogate-Leeds train approaches  5. Cross Country arrival in Sheffield  6. Leaving Sheffield by Cross Country, this time with more modern rolling stock
BOTTOM ROW (left to right): 1.  Esk Valley train arriving at Whitby, its next destination already set  2. On the Esk Valley line  3. 'Pacer' railbus at Middlesbrough  4. Northbound Cross Country service at Darlington  5.  Northbound East Coast service at Durham  6.  East Coast Edinburgh-bound train arriving at Newcastle

Heritage rail
ABOVE: These images all relate to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which runs preserved trains between Pickering and Grosmont, with some services continuing on Network Rail tracks to Whitby. The eagle-eyed will spot that we had an engine change during the journey.

Other travel
ABOVE (left to right): 1 and 2. Harrogate & District service 36, with very smart seating arrangements!  3, 4 and 5. Stagecoach Supertram in Sheffield  6. Yorkshire Coastliner

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