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Jan Grabarek

@railwaysquirrel.bsky.social

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Intrepid Explorer By Railway in the UK and Europe 🇪🇺 21 Countries Visited: 🇬🇧🇮🇲🇧🇪🇮🇪🇫🇷🇨🇭🇩🇪🇨🇿🇱🇺🇳🇱🇦🇹🇸🇰🇸🇮🇭🇺🇮🇹🇵🇱🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴🇱🇮🇭🇷

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 15d

Eek! If it's not Austria, Switzerland or the Netherlands I would never trust a 17 minute connection 😬
I'm not sure if Croatian Railways hold connections or not

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

End of the line for the Chasewater Railway and the end of the line for the walk that was over 10 miles in total 🚶‍♂️

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

A Pacer lurks in the sidings

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

Made it to Brownhills West Station

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

A bit of a bonus as I wasn't expecting to see a steam locomotive pulling a rake of Mark 1 carriages 😊🚂

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

Followed the Railway round on the paths running close to the line

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

We ended up at the Chasewater Railway

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

We carried on walking to the misty Chasewater Reservoir

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

Walked up a stairway next to the bridge and wasn't expecting to find a canal at the top of the bridge 😯

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

Right at the end of the walk came across a section of old track still in situ

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 16d

Met up with @kiteexplores.bsky.social in Walsall and walked the McLean Way which is the old disused railway line to Brownhills

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 17d

I do like Hebden Bridge Station ☺️

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 17d

Had a nice afternoon revisiting Hebden Bridge as its been a fair few years since I was last here

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 17d

Lots of independent shops and a Market in Hebden Bridge, even Del Boy was here 😂

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 17d

Plenty of Mill Chimneys in Hebden Bridge

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 17d

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 17d

It was a very nice walk along the Rochdale Canal from Todmorden to Hebden Bridge

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 17d

So last week was Dutch Canals and this week is the Rochdale Canal

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 18d

The only positive is at least Snälltåget are still running night trains on that route

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 19d

I've narrowed it down to either Prague🇨🇿or Zagreb🇭🇷

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 20d

I see they've rubbed off the graffiti from your last visit there 😂😉

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Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 20d

So at the Railway Museum in Utrecht on Saturday I queued up outside a mysterious door which slid open and led me to a ghost type of train ride and I managed to video the whole thing 👻🇳🇱

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 21d

Zooming by 😂

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 22d

I noticed a few buildings have been sympathetically restored in Kortrijk which is nice to see, very tourist friendly with good signposting everywhere 👍

Jan Grabarek @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social · 22d

😊Trains to Lille Flanders are still running

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