All the Stations

Funding

The series was crowdfunded via Kickstarter, raising £38,654 in 40 days for the Great Britain series and £26,350 for the Ireland series. Contributors who donated £10 or more could adopt a station, with their name appearing on the project's website map. For travel in Great Britain, Marshall and Pipe used All Line Rover tickets. The crowdfunding funded four main documentary episodes per week (59 total), 11 bonus episodes, and additional content on Marshall's channel; one longer episode was sponsored by The Trainline.

Method

The goal was to visit all 2,563 stations on the National Rail network as listed on the Office of Rail and Road's website. A station was considered visited if they were on a train that stopped there, without needing to alight. For request stops, they sometimes used other transport to reach the station and then requested the train to stop. If they had been required to get off at every station, the journey would have taken nearly a year.

Stations opened and closed subsequently

After the initial 2,563 stations, Kenilworth station was scheduled to open on 10 December 2017; Marshall and Pipe visited that day, though it opened in April 2018. Corfe Castle and Maghull North became stations 2,565 and 2,566, visited in August 2018 and on 21 December 2018 respectively. Meridian Water opened on 3 June 2019, replacing nearby Angel Road which closed on 31 May 2019; they visited on opening day, catching the first train. In July 2019, Great Western Railway ran a Saturday-only service from Taunton to Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railway; Marshall and Pipe visited on 3 August, the only day trains also stopped at Norton Fitzwarren.

In June 2020, the All the Stations Twitter account listed unvisited new stations: Warrington West, Robroyston, Worcestershire Parkway, and Horden. In April 2022, Marshall completed a series titled Six Stations on his own channel, visiting all six unvisited stations with a different guest at each.

In May 2022, Marshall confirmed he and Pipe had separated. In June, he posted videos of visits to new Elizabeth line stations; of those, Tottenham Court Road, Canary Wharf, Custom House, and Woolwich were new to the National Rail network. In July, he made solo visits to Barking Riverside and Reston.

Episode list

The All The Stations – Ireland project launched its Kickstarter on 6 January 2019, raising the required £14,500 in 54 minutes. It began on 25 March 2019 at Rosslare Europort railway station, visiting all 198 stations in approximately two weeks, finishing on 10 April 2019. All The Stations – Isle of Man was a bonus project funded from the Ireland funds, taking three days from 12 July to 14 July 2019, covering the Isle of Man Railway, Manx Electric Railway, Snaefell Mountain Railway, Great Laxey Mine Railway, and Groudle Glen Railway; the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway was unavailable due to resurfacing. The number of stations visited is uncertain, probably between 87 and 90.