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.

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, a retail travel advisor at Northampton train station, said: "It started because I was curious as to where people went. "

"People get involved because I think they liked the idea of being part of something and the tickets will be there on the board for a long time."

"The most popular stations are ones from London - you get thousands of tickets a day because it's a busy route."

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 Board 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, added: "Some of the stations are so incredibly remote it's unlikely people will ever go there. "

"Some of the trains are only served there two or three times a year."

"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.