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« Reply #15 on: July 24, 2024, 18:52:29 »
Quote from: ChrisB on July 24, 2024, 18:24:59
Sorry Mark - was Red Squirrel down this hole then?

He wasn't. And I can tell you that traffic on the A1 was flowing quite freely that day - even where it passes under the M1...
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« Reply #16 on: July 24, 2024, 22:42:00 »
Quote from: eightonedee on July 24, 2024, 17:02:42
Between St Neots and Bedford?

Sorry, didn’t spot this. No; wrong A1.
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« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2024, 23:08:15 »
I was thinking of Europa Buscentre/Great Victoria Street. I can't find anything matching what little can be seen in the picture, but there's a lot of building going on round there.
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« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2024, 07:52:38 »
Northern Ireland then. Between Belfast and Londonderry/Derry?
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« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2024, 07:52:53 »
You are getting very warm, stuving… eightonedee is the wrong side of Belfast.
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« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2024, 14:17:33 »
I'll try Belfast to Dublin next......
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« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2024, 14:46:03 »
Reverse that and you’re spot on…
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« Reply #22 on: July 25, 2024, 15:02:38 »
That's a long distance for a bustitution. How long did it take?
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« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2024, 22:02:43 »
Needed the Starship Enterprise rather than the Stagecoach Enterprise...
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« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2024, 22:44:17 »
Quote from: froome on July 25, 2024, 15:02:38
That's a long distance for a bustitution. How long did it take?

It’s a 2 hour journey, with an hour of it being bustituted. So where was I?
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« Reply #25 on: September 18, 2024, 19:33:12 »
So to close this out before I set another one running, the answer I was looking for was: Newry
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