A railway fan is on a mission to collect a 'classic' orange train ticket from every station in the UK.
Elliot Badger, 40, has been searching for the 2,700 tickets needed for his project and started 'All Aboard to Northampton' in 2020 to enlist railway enthusiasts' help.
He has now collected more than 2,000 tickets from across the UK including from Shippea Hill, Cambs - one of Britain's least-used stations.
Elliot Badger, 40, has been searching for the 2,700 tickets needed for his project and started 'All Aboard to Northampton' in 2020 to enlist railway enthusiasts' help.
He has now collected more than 2,000 tickets from across the UK including from Shippea Hill, Cambs - one of Britain's least-used stations.
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00:00I'm Elliot Badger, Retail and Travel Advisor working here, just some information on this
00:08little boat here.
00:10Nine years ago, I just went from a ticket in the ticket bin, wanted to have a look to
00:16see where people travelled either from here or people travelling from there to here, just
00:20to see where everyone travelled.
00:21I just started collecting them, kept looking each day to see if there was any new ones,
00:26before long I got 2,000 of them.
00:30I didn't have any idea that I was even going to be carrying it on, I literally just started
00:34looking at tickets and just kept collecting more before I knew it, it is what it is.
00:39I didn't know how long it would take or even if it would never be completed, I just kept
00:43it going.
00:44There's been a lot of very happy feedback for this, very very good feedback, especially
00:49people that are willing to just go out of their way, just so they can bring a ticket
00:53and put it on the board.
00:54It's incredible, absolutely incredible.
00:55We had 18 railway enthusiasts all arranged to travel to stations that are not on here
01:02and also to arrive at the same time, there's still 600 odd to go.