How I Started Walking by Rail
15 years ago, I moved from a village in the Dartmoor National Park to Bristol city centre, for several reasons; one of them was to give up the car. I have always loved spending time in the countryside: walking, cycling, photographing, looking for wildlife. I wondered how much of that I would still be able to do after we moved. Like most people, I probably assumed that it would be difficult to reach the deeper, more remote, more interesting countryside without driving. I had never seen, heard or read anything to contradict that view. I can’t remember when I began walking between railway stations - I had walked much of the Southwest Coast Path that way - but I started doing it more regularly after we moved. Whenever we move to a new place, I want to explore the area around it. I generally prefer cycling with a club and walking alone, searching for that connection with nature which arrives in a flash of sunlight over a valley, or the sea, whe...