All the Stations was crowdfunded via Kickstarter, raising a total of £38,654 in 40 days for the Great Britain season in 2017, and £26,350 for the Ireland season in 2019. Every contributor who donated £10 or more to the Kickstarter campaign was able to adopt a station, and their name appeared on the map on the project's website. For traveling in Great Britain, Marshall and Pipe used All Line Rover tickets. The money raised from the crowdfunding allowed four main documentary episodes to be published each week on YouTube – there were 59 episodes in total – and also paid for 11 'bonus' episodes. Marshall also hosted further content on his channel, and there was one longer video episode paid for by sponsorship from The Trainline. All videos are hosted on YouTube. An 80-minute documentary, which has additional content along with interviews, was released on 19 May 2018.
All The Stations – Ireland
'All The Stations – Ireland', a project to visit all 198 stations on the island of Ireland, launched its Kickstarter on 6 January 2019 at 6pm; and raised the required £14,500 for this project to go ahead in just 54 minutes. The project got under way on 25 March 2019, starting at Rosslare Europort railway station, and was estimated to take approximately two weeks. The final station,, was visited on 10 April 2019. An additional £11,850 was raised, bringing the total up to £26,350 and allowing for an additional five videos to be produced. This included bonus videos of the couple travelling to Ireland and another about the Luas Tram network in Dublin.
'All The Stations – Isle of Man' was a bonus project to visit all the stations on the Isle of Man. The project was funded from the funds raised as part of 'All The Stations – Ireland'. The project took three days, between 12 July 2019 and 14 July 2019, and covered the Isle of Man Railway on the first day, the Manx Electric Railway and Snaefell Mountain Railway on the second day, and then the Great Laxey Mine Railway and Groudle Glen Railwayon the third day. They were unable to ride the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway due to resurfacing works on the seafront promenade. The precise number of stations visited as part of 'All The Stations – Isle of Man' is uncertain due to the large number of unmarked halts on the Manx Electric Railway; it is probably between 87 and 90.
Method
The rules set out before the trip were that all 2,563 stations on the National Rail network in Great Britain were to be visited. To visit a station, they had to be on a train that stopped at the station, but they did not have to alight from the train. In the case of request stops, the train had to be scheduled to stop if required; for a number of request stops, they used other transport to get to the station and then requested the train to stop. It was estimated that if they had been required to get off the train at every station, the journey would have taken almost a year to complete.
Stations opened subsequently
After completing all 2,563 stations, Kenilworth station was scheduled to open on 10 December 2017, on which day Marshall and Pipe visited the station, although it did not actually open until April 2018. Corfe Castle and Maghull North later became stations numbers 2,565 and 2,566. The pair visited Corfe in August 2018, and Kenilworth and Maghull on 21 December 2018. Originally planned to open on 20 May 2019, Meridian Water opened on 3 June 2019, replacing the nearby Angel Road which had closed on 31 May. Marshall and Pipe visited Meridian Water on the day it opened, catching the first train to call at the station. In July 2019 Great Western started operating a Saturday only service from Taunton to Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railway for a limited period of time. Marshall and Pipe visited the station on 3 August, the only day that trains were also scheduled to stop at Norton Fitzwarren. In June 2020, the pair's Twitter account confirmed which since-opened stations they have yet to visit: Warrington West, Robroyston, Worcestershire Parkway, and Horden.
Book
A book about the project, The Railway Adventures, authored by Marshall and Pipe, was released on 16 October 2018 by September Publishing.
