I’m collecting a classic orange train ticket from every UK station - I need your help with 608 tickets

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 - starting '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, Cambridgeshire - one of Britain's least-used stations.

The tickets are displayed in alphabetical order across the station walls with spaces left for the stops where a ticket is yet to be donated.

Mr Badger is still looking for 608 tickets on a main railway route including Bootle in Cumbria, Islip in Oxfordshire and Teesside Airport in County Durham. All Aboard to Northampton are also appealing for 112 London Underground stop tickets.

Railway users can hand in their ticket even if their train was replaced with a bus - or do not even have to travel on the route at all. The project asks only for the 'old-style' orange cardboard ticket.

Mr Badger, who has worked at Northampton station for 18 years, said: "People get involved because I think they like the idea of being part of something and the tickets will be there on the board for a long time.

“As long as you've got the orange cardboard train ticket, you don't necessarily have to go to that train station. The most important thing is that it has to be to or from Northampton."

You can drop a ticket off to Northampton Station to be put up on the wall.