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« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2017, 17:34:26 » |
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Probably buying 14 day rovers at £1148.
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« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2017, 18:19:55 » |
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Probably buying 14 day rovers at £1148.
One of their videos confirmed "14 days at a time" |
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« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2017, 21:23:37 » |
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Probably buying 14 day rovers at £1148. Which raises the question: if you travelled constantly 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, without worrying about the train actually stopping at every station, is there enough time for you cover the entire passenger network in the period of a 14-day All Line Rover? Or, to put it another way, if you add up the fastest journey time for each stretch of track how manys minutes/hours/days/weeks/months does it come to? |
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Don't DOO▸ it, keep the guard (but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea if the driver unlocked the doors on arrival at calling points).
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« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2017, 21:58:33 » |
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I'd suggest it's not possible in 14 days. Even more so if you can only travel by rail (eg so can't travel from Mallaig to Kyle of Lochalsh by road).
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« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2017, 03:08:57 » |
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Probably buying 14 day rovers at £1148. Which raises the question: if you travelled constantly 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, without worrying about the train actually stopping at every station, is there enough time for you cover the entire passenger network in the period of a 14-day All Line Rover? Or, to put it another way, if you add up the fastest journey time for each stretch of track how manys minutes/hours/days/weeks/months does it come to? 9800 miles on the network - works out at 29 miles of new line to be covered every hour over a 14 day period. Don't think it's practical once you add in the need to get back (or on) from some of the remote places you end up like Bromley North, Newquay and Fishguard Harbour ... Also need to define "network" if you're going to try for a record, Rhydgaled - do you include sections such as New Beckenham to Beckenham Junction, and how about Brixton to Victoria via Stewart's Lane? |
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« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2017, 21:16:18 » |
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Also need to define "network" if you're going to try for a record, Rhydgaled - do you include sections such as New Beckenham to Beckenham Junction, and how about Brixton to Victoria via Stewart's Lane? I am not familar with either of your examples, but if you want a definition of 'entire passenger network' for the purpose of this discussion then I would suggest all stretches of track which are booked to be used at least once a week for a period of at least ten weeks a year by scheduled passenger services that appear in the public timetable of any franchised or open access train operating company. That means Okehampton (summer Sundays only) counts but I'm not sure about the Swansea avoiding line behind Landore depot. The latter only counts if that is the normal booked route for one (or more) of the services that avoid Swansea; if it is only used once in a while as a diversionary route in the event of the Swansea District Line being closed for maintainance then it doesn't count. |
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« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2017, 22:29:36 » |
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Probably because "all the stations" is much more easily defined than "all the lines" ... we morphed into a "what if" in reply no. 16! And the stations are the interesting passenger "things" too for the general public ... |
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« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2017, 22:56:04 » |
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Probably buying 14 day rovers at £1148. Which raises the question: if you travelled constantly 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, without worrying about the train actually stopping at every station, is there enough time for you cover the entire passenger network in the period of a 14-day All Line Rover? Or, to put it another way, if you add up the fastest journey time for each stretch of track how manys minutes/hours/days/weeks/months does it come to? 9800 miles on the network - works out at 29 miles of new line to be covered every hour over a 14 day period. Don't think it's practical once you add in the need to get back (or on) from some of the remote places you end up like Bromley North, Newquay and Fishguard Harbour ... Also need to define "network" if you're going to try for a record, Rhydgaled - do you include sections such as New Beckenham to Beckenham Junction, and how about Brixton to Victoria via Stewart's Lane? The killer would be the regular suburban branches - you'd eat up an amazing amount of time going to the likes of Bromley North, Chessington, Hayes, Chingford, Milngavie, Paisley Canal, Kirkby and West Kirkby to name just a few. At a finger-in-the-air guess, I think it would take at least six weeks. |
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« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2017, 15:24:10 » |
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They's made yarksher ... where the BBC» have interviewed them ... and mislabelled their report to say they're going "only by rail" ... err, no. Taxi from Pewsey to Bedwyn as I recall, and across some line end links too. But it would be churlish of me to point out the misreporting .... They're doing well. Some interesting videos with a slant to the more difficult stations. And aren't I glad that Melksham wasn't "difficult station of the day" ... would have been five years ago! |
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« Reply #25 on: July 31, 2017, 19:07:40 » |
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I had looked and used the search option before posting Must have missed it somehow Perhaps a kind Mod might merge or tidy up a bit Thanks WP. Now done - with my apologies for the delay. CfN.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #26 on: September 29, 2017, 21:45:27 » |
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Congratulations on their completion. Although this thread went quiet, I carried on watching from time to time to Wick. A set of pictures to represent the whole journey at RailStaff web site |
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« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2017, 21:52:48 » |
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Yes indeed, and there is more to come. I managed to meet Geoff and Vicky for 30 seconds when they first started out.
But there has been a lot of bitterness surrounding this venture.
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« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2017, 00:55:40 » |
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I worked with Geoff many years ago (Hi, if you read this) and remember chatting to him about his preparation for visiting all the London Underground tubes stations in the fastest time. Glad to see he's continued the theme and aimed higher.
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« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2017, 14:37:26 » |
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I've just posted in All around the West board that he's asking for help this Sunday in SE London - needs over 100 people to form a human old BR▸ insignia of the arrows....
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