A train - loving UK couple is on a mission this summertime to visit as many of Great Britain ’s railway stations as potential . Since May , Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe have been working to impinge on up all 2563 station , shooting picture and posting updates to social medium along the mode .
Both Marshall and Pipe are serious gearing caramel brown . Marshall , a television producer , previously created videos about each of the London Underground pipeline forLondonist , and Pipe works at the London Transport Museum ( she ’s taking a sabbatical for the trip ) .
All the Stationsisn’t a race , so they ’ll keep at it until they ’ve covered the entire island , though their finish is to polish off the journeying in three calendar month . They are documenting their travel as a way to search the state of Britain ’s rail infrastructure and visit little - known places along the itinerary . Their goal include put up four videos of four different days of travel per hebdomad , live on streaming between video post , and making a feature infotainment about the project at the closing of the summer .
The project was part fund onKickstarter , where they lift more than $ 50,600 in former 2017 for their trip — which aid ante up for the more than$13,000 in wagon train ticket .
The pair has jell out parameters for what on the button weigh as a check . They have to arrive or leave on a schedule railroad train passing through each stop , but they do n’t have to get off at every one . They ’re not reckon abandoned stations , nor do subways or heritage railroad numerate , and they are sticking to mainland Britain rather than venturing to Northern Ireland .
They ’ve been averaging about 30 stations per day . As of July 26 , they have made it to 2089 stations , putting them more than 80 percent of the agency there . They ’ve only got 474 left to go on the way to Thurso , the northmost town on the British mainland , which they plan to hit in August .
