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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 19/05/2026

Tiranë cable car up to Dajti! 🚡 🇦🇱 Quite a slow bus journey to the city outskirts but some amazing views from this length cable car! Shame the top was fully misty so no views!

View of cable car pylon with Tiranë in the background, green hills in the foreground

Dense lush greenery below a cable car route with a misty Tiranë just about visible in the far distance behind the hills

View (or lack thereof) from the top of Dajti
The wooden corner railing of the viewpoint visible with some immediate shrubbery then just the misty abyss

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 18/05/2026

An explore of Tiranë! 🇦🇱 The Albanian capital a very interesting city to explore! Though with no metros or trams to speak of they’ve got quite a bad traffic problem!

Communist era mural on the side of the National Historical Museum on Skanderbeg Square in Tiranë

18th century stone pedestrian bridge in Tiranë city centre

Statue of Skanderbeg on a horse in Skanderbeg Square

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 14/05/2026

Durrës! 🇦🇱 Albania’s port town with some cool stuff such as a Roman amphitheater and castle ruins!

Town square in Dürres lined with fountains and palm trees with a mosque slightly up a hill behind

Remains of a Roman amphitheater in Durrës, Albania

The coastal front at Durrës, pedestrianised and lined with palm trees and grassy spaces

Large blocky tower, part of the remains of Durrës Castle

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 13/05/2026

Italy, it’s been fun! But I love a good overnight ship crossing and Bari has quite a few it seems! 🚢 🇮🇹 Mirë se vini në Shqipëri! 🇦🇱 Welcome to Albania! 🇦🇱 My 39th Country visited!

2 bed private cabin with window on Adria Ferries from Bari to Durrës

Welcome to Albania sign flanked by two Albania flags above the entrance to Durrës Port before passport control

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 11/05/2026

Onwards now to Bari Centrale on a nearly 4h relaxing intercity train from Caserta, just north of Napoli! 🇮🇹 Bari a much calmer city than Napoli and a pleasant place to stroll along the coast

Interior of 1st class on the Trenitalia InterCity train to Bari Centrale

Laid out in a 2+1 configuration of tables of 2 and 4 with a smaller number of solo / pair seats

A flag lined street in Bari, with most country flags globally, including Cymru, Kazakhstan, Macedonia and Bosnia

Tall buildings flank the narrow street which in in the charming old town

Castello Svevo di Bari

A large castellated structure which sits between the port and the old town

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 11/05/2026

A really interesting time wandering around the preserved ruins of Pompeii Highly recommend a visit if you get the chance! 🇮🇹

Large amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, with the stands now invaded by grass and the centre available for tourists to wander in and take photos

Ruins of houses and buildings in Pompeii in an area where you can view from above due to a suspended viewing structure

Ancient ruins of Pompeii showing partially destroyed columns with Vesuvius looming in the skyline behind

Ruins of a bakery in Pompeii with bread ovens visible

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 11/05/2026

Often called “Europe’s Worst Railway” the Circumvesuviana railway provides a relatively frequent commuter service around the Napoli / Pompei / Sorrento area 🇮🇹 Definitely in need of some investment but hopefully the new Stadler trains will be a clear improvement!

Interior of one of the older circumvesuviana trains, with plastic seats similar to what you’d find in a primary school fixed to the ground, the door is open showing a busy platform

Terminal platforms at Napoli Porta Nolana, with two trains occupying platforms and an empty platform in the centre of the photo

An old and graffiti covered train on the Circumvesuviana

One of the marginally nicer more modern trains pulling into Napoli Porta Garibaldi

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 11/05/2026

A brief wander around Napoli, a very chaotic city with some good views of the bay and Mount Vesuvius! 🇮🇹

An ornate boarding school on one edge of the Piazza Dante, featuring a central clock tower entrance and sides which slightly wrap around the curved ends of the Piazza

Funicular in Napoli which runs from Montesanto up to Morghen

View of Napoli with Mount Vesuvius in the background

View of Napoli bay with Mount Vesuvius in the background, the port area visible on the coast and a single palm tree in the foreground

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 10/05/2026

Vatican City! 🇻🇦 A visit to my 38th new country and the smallest country in the world!

Crowds and queue fencing in Vatican City with the Sistine chapel and Saint Peter’s Basilica in the background

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 09/05/2026

Tried out two high speed Italian trains between Roma Termini and Napoli Centrale! Trenitalia’s flagship “Frecciarossa 1000” and an ETR 675 “EVO” operated by private operator “Italo” both very comfortable even if Italo was 87m late due to a line issue!

Frecciarossa 1000 at Napoli Centrale with a service to Milano Centrale via Roma Termini

Interior of Prima class on Trenitalia Frecciarossa 1000

Italo ETR 675 “EVO” train at Roma Termini with a service from Venice to Napoli Centrale

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 09/05/2026

Rome! The historic Italian capital had many things to see including the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps and Colosseum! 🇮🇹

Spanish steps flooded with tourists in Rome, Italy

Roman ruins near to the Colosseum in Rome

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 07/05/2026

But wait! The journey isn’t over yet! Time for a second consecutive sleeper train! This time Trenitalia’s service from Torino to Salerno, which I’ll be taking as far as Napoli Centrale! 🇮🇹

Exterior of the very grand Torino Porta Nuova station just before sunset

Locomotive on the front of the 2155 Torino Porta Nuova to Salerno ICN sleeper service

Breakfast onboard the sleeper, croissant with Nutella or jam, along with some bread based snacks and juice, tea or coffee

Sleeper cabin on board the Trenitalia ICN service, a single bed folded down with pillow in packaging. Toiletry kit and 2 bottles of water. A private sink is found under the table and a sheet to mark off desired breakfast options

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 07/05/2026

Torino! A brief walk around the pleasant Italian city! 🇮🇹

A tram passes between two blocks of buildings in rainy Torino

Ornate statue and fountain in Piazza Statuto, Torino

Large open space surrounded with ornate Italian architecture in Piazza San Carlo, Torino

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 07/05/2026

After a ScotRail HST, sleeper train and very tight connection into Eurostar plus a long TGV ride, I’ve made it to Torino! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷🇮🇹 As the EDB portion was 60m late, it made a tight connection extremely tight, but I thankfully made my Eurostar! 🚆

ScotRail 5-coach HST set sitting in platform 2 at Inverness station

GBRf liveried Class 92028 waits for departure from Glasgow Central to London Euston on a Caledonian sleeper service

TGV at Paris Gare de Lyon platform 15 awaiting delayed departure to Milano Porta Garibaldi

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 05/05/2026

Thurso! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The furthest north town on mainland Great Britain! I’ve been here a number of times before and really like the town! But now it’s time to head south!

Thurso beach, today rather windswept, overlooking the North Atlantic

Thurso station sign on the single platform

St Peter’s and St Andrew’s Church photographed from the bridge over river thurso

River Thurso with a stony island in the middle flanked by two flows, seen from the road bridge

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 05/05/2026

Time for a trip to Scotland and I am going north by slightly different means this time! Ember coach at 1am from Glasgow, got me to Inverness at 0500! Time to wait for the new Greggs to open before jumping on the 0700 to Thurso!

Avanti 390119 “Progress” in a PRIDE livery, my train from Preston to Carlisle where I stopped for some tea

The entrance to Inverness railway station at around 05:15am, the early daylight showing

My next train. The 0700 Inverness to Thurso, showing on the board with 3 pages of rural calling points. The board next to it shows LNER’s 0755 to Northallerton, which is cut short from the usual London due to planned engineering works

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 08/04/2026

Heading East on a route I’ve down a few times I decided to mix it up and tick off some of the smaller stations between Disentis and Andermatt! 🇨🇭

Segnas station, a request stop a few stops out from Disentis.
The station has a wooden shelter with a glass door.
A station sign reads “Segnas” above the door with red and white “Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn” branding, the operator of this line.

Acla da Fontauna station, a request stop and the next stop after Disentis, where MGB and RhätischeBahn meet.
The station has a wooden shelter with a glass door.
A station sign reads “Acla da Fontauna” above the door with red and white “Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn” branding, the operator of this line.

Nätschen station with a Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn train departing the platform towards Andermatt
This station is just under 2000m altitude, snowy mountains can be seen dominating the background and skiers milling around on and near the platform

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 08/04/2026

Down to Graübunden for another ride on Rhätische Bahn, one of my favourite operators! This time I travelled to Preda with the intention of walking to Bergün, the next stop down. As the paths were extremely snow covered, this became a road walk, but didn’t ruin the views!🇨🇭

A red Rhätische train, formed of a mix of modern Stadler Capricorn unit and older loco hauled carriages, crosses a large viaduct in the background.

In the foreground a lower viaduct is crossing the road, surrounded with snow piles

A red RhätischeBahn train crossing a high viaduct over a road which has been cleared of snow. A metre of snow flanks the road on one side with a barrier installed on the other. A large icicle formation hanging from the underside of one of the bridge’s arches

a very snow covered path, not fully clear where the path ends and the ground starts, surrounded by snow and green alpine trees with mountains in the background

A RhätischeBahn train hauled by a locomotive sits at Preda station waiting departure into the Albula tunnel towards St. Moritz

Preda station sign fixed on a metal pole on the left side of the photo

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 08/04/2026

Crossing over the border to Switzerland to visit a place that’s been on my list for a while now! Rheinfall on the edge of Neuhausen in northern Switzerland! Amazing place with 2 railway stations and plenty of viewpoints for the waterfalls! 🚆🇨🇭

Rheinfall with the railway bridge in the background and Schloss Laufen perched above the falls on a rock, a church spire to the right hand side of the Schloss

View of the top of the falls from a path alongside the railway line atop the bridge, the sun shining down low in the sky with a darkened Schloss Laufen sitting above the tunnel the tracks disappear into

View of the falls from the Schloss Laufen side of the Rhein.

An SBB S-Bahn service approaching “Schloss Laufen im Rheinfall” station, a service to Schaffhausen

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 04/04/2026

It’s time I escape the UK again! This time starting with Colmar, a lovely town in the Grand-Est region of France 🇫🇷

Canals surrounded by Germanic buildings in “Little Venice”, Colmar, France

Easter (Paques) decorations placed above a canal in Colmar

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 29/03/2026

It seems some new stations have opened! Including Bedlington which opened this morning, I paid a visit for the first train! Bedlington ✅ Willenhall ✅ Darlaston ✅

The first train off Bedlington towards Ashington at Ashington station

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 26/02/2026

Tornio Itäinen ✅ And time for a sleeper train I’ve wanted to try out for a while now, the Finnish Railways sleeper down to Helsinki! En-suite room tonight for £58 (50% off with interrail pass)

Standing area of restaurant car on the Finnish sleeper train with bar style seats along one side and standing places around surfaces

Private en suite onboard the sleeper train
Featuring toilet and shower as well as a sink, soap and cups

Top deck sleeper cabin on the Finnish railways sleeper.
Two bunk beds, with free bottles of water, a small table and a fold down seat

Exterior of the Finnish railways double deck sleeper coach at Tornio Itäinen with station signs in Finnish and Swedish languages on the left, absolutely covered in frost, ice and snow

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Time for a walk from Haparanda to Tornio. Tervetuloa Suomeen! 🇫🇮 Finland is a new country for me, number 37! Amazing display of Aurora Borealis to welcome us!

Aurora Borealis above Tornio and Haparanda during a cold walk over the border

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 24/02/2026

A pleasant but cold (-17°C!) few hours exploring Luleå! Including a very confusing shopping centre and an icy path / ice skating motorway over the frozen river inlet with tractors and dog walkers. Did I mention it was cold?

Luleå sign on the lake/river/body of water

Train 93 from Stockholm / Boden C arrived at Luleå C in the snow… again

A snowplough/tractor on a frozen body of water

A quaint row of shops / cafes alongside a frozen body of water

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Boden! A lovely little town to have an explore of!

Norrtåg train from Kiruna at Boden C in the snow

Snowy tree lined path alongside a frozen lake in Boden

Boden C station.
Lit up in the night sky

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Stepped back a train at Kiruna, 2 hours to kill in -17°c so went to find chips!

Norrtåg train 9042 running from Kiruna to Lulea with a 2 car EMU.

Actually running astoundingly.

Frasses, a strange but good Swedish fast food chain, huge portions of fries!

Locomotive off train 95, running around in order to reverse at Kiruna, snow basically everywhere

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 21/02/2026

Amazing to see the stunning Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) late last night during a walk around the edges of Narvik! 🇳🇴 Magical to see it with your own eyes rather than through a camera!

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Time for a very very long distance train from Stockholm up through Sweden and into Narvik, in Norway 🇳🇴 Absolutely stunning scenery, especially once over the border in Norway

2x SJ locomotives on the front of the Stockholm to Narvik sleeper train 94.

The Narvik train the next morning, in Kiruna where the train reverses

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 19/02/2026

Bumped into these guys on the sleeper train to Narvik! 🇸🇪 🇳🇴

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 19/02/2026

A delayed journey to Stockholm today with a broken freight train resulting in a reverse back to Kil for a chaotic replacement bus to Karlstad. Arrived into the amazing city of Stockholm 198m late Staff from both SJ and Värmlandstrafik very helpful!

Sunset in Stockholm looking towards the “Stockholm stadshus”

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 18/02/2026

Time for some more station ticking along a pretty rural line! 🇸🇪

Torsby station sign, the end of the line

2 car DMU in the snow at the line’s terminus, Torsby

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 18/02/2026

Sunne, the roughly halfway point of this line and one of the more built up areas. Lovely town and church as well as Kolsnäs station to the south which serves an amusement park (probably more of a summer thing) 🇸🇪

View of river shortly before sunset in Sunne

Sunne Kyrka photographed from opposite side of river

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 16/02/2026

A Norwegian Stadler train continues my journey north and made time for awander around the nice town of Trollhättan. Featuring a very icy river! 🇸🇪

VY (Norwegian railways) Stadler Flirt operating the 1414 service from Göteborg to Oslo S

An ornate building housing a conference centre in Trollhättan

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 16/02/2026

Boats, trams, parks and pretty buildings in Gothenburg! 🇸🇪

A boat in the harbour area of Gothenburg

A newer and older tram model pass each other in a street near Avenue

A snowy park with the city visible behind the trees in Gothenburg

A tram passes a pretty building housing a theatre in Gothenburg, a snowy park entrance in the foreground

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 16/02/2026

Whilst heading North from Malmö to Göteborg, station ticking is bound to end up happening!

Båstad Station sign and platform with the København - Malmö - Göteborg train in the platform about to depart north

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 15/02/2026

Wait! You lot are all here in Denmark too???? What are the chances!

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 15/02/2026

Oh hello København! Long but successful journey from the morning arrival at Hoek van Holland! 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇩🇰

Stena Line ferry from Harwich having arrived at Hoek van Holland

DB Regio double deck loco hauled train to Düsseldorf next to my ICE 202 to Hamburg

Hamburg Hbf showing two through lines, an ICE train on the right and the new DSB Talgo train to Copenhagen on the left

Exterior of the lovely København station, with snow piles around the rims of the building and the road

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 18/01/2026

It’s France time again! An excellent country I’ll never stop coming back to. This time a ride on the new Paris “C1” Cable Car which runs from Créteil to Villa Nova was in order!

Villa Nova, the end of the C1 Cable car route

View north from the Paris cable car, fog disrupted visibility of Paris city centre, a TGV Lyria set from Lausanne to Paris Gare de Lyon passes on LGV Sud-Est to the left hand side

La Végétale station, where the cable car takes a right hand 90° turn to the west, the photo shows both sections of the route at the left and right sides of the wide angle photo

Close up photo of a cable car cabin entering Valenton station, with the majority of the cable car route visible in the background snaking its way north

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 04/01/2026

I visited a total of 17 countries in 2025 10 of which I have visited before; 🇫🇷 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇸🇮 🇭🇷 🇧🇬 🇷🇴 🇭🇺 Whilst the remaining 7 were new countries for me! 🇧🇦 🇲🇪 🇷🇸 🇽🇰 🇲🇰 🇰🇿 🇺🇿

Historic Madrasas in Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Lit up market streets snaking along above the river with mosques in the background just after sunset, Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 04/01/2026

It appears to be a new year! 🎆 Many adventures took place over the course of 2025! Here are some stats! Visited 167 new stations in the UK plus 53 in other countries! I also finished visiting every station in Great Britain! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Llantwit Major station sign, my final station visited in GB!

9-coach Bosnian Talgo rolling stock calling with local door only at a tiny and very basic Iližda station, which consists of solely a 10m long raised metal platform with 4 steps up to access from trackside.

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 22/11/2025

Back in Cymru for some required stations! Rhoose Cardiff International Airport ✅ Llantwit Major ✅ Transport for Wales ✅ Vale of Glamorgan ✅ All stations in Cymru visited 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✅ All stations in Great Britain visited 🇬🇧✅

Llantwit Major (Llanilltud Fawr) station platform showing the station sign and one end of the footbridge.
My final station visited in Great Britain

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport (Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd) station, showing the station platform and sign.

Class 150251 is pictured approaching the platform to take me to Llantwit Major

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 09/11/2025

A weekend trip to Scotland results in visiting both Insch and Huntly Insch ✅ Aberdeen to Inverness ✅ ScotRail managed stations ✅ Visited every station in Scotland ✅ 2587/2589

Urquhart Castle from the coach from Inverness to Fort William, alongside Loch Ness

Scenery from the West Highland Line between Fort William and Glasgow

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 27/10/2025

Ah I’ve discovered what all the fuss is about! A new station has opened in Essex! Welcome station 2589! 🚉 Beaulieu Park ✅ Every station in England (again) ✅

Beaulieu Park station in Essex on opening day 26/10/25
Photo shows platforms 3 and 2 with p1 over the other side

Large metallic Beaulieu Park text outside the station’s main entrance

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 26/10/2025

After some very random trips around the country, Market Rasen is a large landmark! Market Rasen ✅ Lincolnshire ✅ Every station in England ✅ This just leaves Scotland and Wales left to complete! Hang on what’s going on in Essex this morning???

Ancaster railway station with EMR class 170 departing towards Skegness

Market Rasen Railway station with EMR class 17 departing to towards Lincoln

Corkickle Railway station with Class 195
The closed tunnel towards Whitehaven is fenced off

Blyth Bebside railway station sign, opened 19/10

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 25/10/2025

Sadly the time comes to return home, flying back to London with Uzbekistan Airways, arriving around 50m late 🇺🇿 🇬🇧

View of the rear half of the Uzbekistan Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner being prepared for the flight from Tashkent to London

Southern class 377 at Gatwick Airport station

View of the wider Tashkent Area during takeoff

Ashford, UK
Seen on descent towards Gatwick, HS1, Ashford International station and the large retail park are standout landmarks

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 24/10/2025

Tashkent Metro! 🚇 One of the prettiest metros in the world with each station having a unique design. Fully contactless travel just tap and go, each tap is a single journey and costs £0.10

Ornate pillars and chandeliers stretching down the platform at Mustakillik Square metro station in Tashkent

A blue a white themed decoration with dark pillars and cloud like textures down the middle of the ceiling, the walls feature circles with notable Soviet and Uzbek scientists and astronauts including the first woman in space; Valentina Tereshkova
Kosmonavtlar metro station

Domed roofing with ornate patterns and pillars down the length of the platform, one of the newer models of rolling stock is in the background and features the Uzbekistan flag colours
Alisher Navoi metro station

Ornate pillars and geometric shaped pattern on the floor of Xalqlar Do’stligi metro station

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 24/10/2025

Back in Tashkent, have some photos from Tashkent’s grand station building and the nearby Railwau Museum! 🇺🇿 🚆

Old Soviet steam locomotive parked in Tashkent’s railway museum area

A cat strolling between rows of abandoned former Soviet locomotives and carriages

The aesthetic exterior of Tashkent railway station, lit up at night

Morning view of Tashkent station from across the busy road

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 20/10/2025

Samarkand also has 2 tram lines, sadly the one which would’ve been useful to me was not operating due to roadwork, so I wasn’t able to try them out. Luckily the bus network is frequent and relatively simple to work out! 🇺🇿 🚊 🚌

A tram at the Railway station stop in Samarkand

Interior of one of the more modern buses in Samarkand

Large sign near Registan Square stating:

“SAMARKAND”
“Cultural capital of the Islamic world”

A huge Uzbekistan flagpole in a pleasant park area featuring multiple fountains

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Jack Eadie @jacktravels.co.uk · 19/10/2025

Samarkand! Really cool historic centre here, a key location on the Silk Road! 🇺🇿

Registan Square, Samarkand.
Photographed from the observation area, wide angle shot to capture all 3 of the historic madrasas

One of the historic Madrasas in Registan Square, Samarkand

Closer shot of the inside edge of one of the Madrasas, another in the background, showing the high level of detail in the decorative patterns

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