Your Last Train Journey?

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Earlier today...

Start: Bradford Interchange
Change at: Halifax, Huddersfield
Destination: Denby Dale

158 (Bradford service) to Halifax (Simply because i assumed waiting half an hour there for the Huddersfield service would be more pleasant than at Bradford), Only to find that the snack bar at Halifax is no more... Anyway, the Huddersfield service was a pair of 153s, followed by a bacon butty in the platform 4 buffet, and through the subway for a nice bouncy ex-Northern Spirit 142 (Surely the worst "refurbishment" carried out on any train anywhere ever) to the 'Pie Village'. But everything was on time, and I was left with a cheerful 2mile walk home in sub-zero wind-chill!
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Destination: Hudderfield [HUD]
From: Brockholes [BHS]
Company: Northern Rail
Train Class: Unknown
Details: Bump tracks and trains were bumpy

Then for the return

From: Deighton [DHN]
To: Honley [HOY]
via: Huddersfield [HUD]
Company: Northern Rail
Class: Unknown
Details: Deighton to Huddersfield, then to Honley. Was going to get off at Brockholes which is one station closer, but I felt like a nice walk!
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Mate, you really need to buy that railcard considering how much travelling you do!
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Jolteon wrote:Destination: Hudderfield [HUD]
From: Brockholes [BHS]
Company: First Transpennine Express
Think you'll find it's Northern...
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Badger wrote:
Jolteon wrote:Destination: Hudderfield [HUD]
From: Brockholes [BHS]
Company: First Transpennine Express
Think you'll find it's Northern...
Whoopsy, thats what I get for ctrl+v'ing my original post :p
JamieLei wrote:Mate, you really need to buy that railcard considering how much travelling you do!
Not really, those stations are all within 15 miles of each other. It's hardly long range / pricey :p
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Yeah but it all adds up :) - you could save 65p on that journey! Plus anyway, a single journey to London and back would pay it off.
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From: Indooroopilly
Destination: Dreamworld
Connections at: Sherwood, Yerongpilly, Salisbury, Coomera
Company: QR CityTrain
Train Class: 120 & 220
Details: train to Sherwood, walk to friends house, car to yerongpilly, train to Salisbury, train to Coomera, Bus to Dreamworld.

From: Dreamworld
Destination: Indooroopilly
Connections at: Coomera, Roma st.
Company: QR
Train Class: 120, 200
Details: A LOT shorter this time, just a bus and 2 trains.
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From: Buffalo Exchange Station
To: New York Penn Station
Company: Amtrak
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From: Manchester Airport
To: Flint
Via: Manchester Piccadilly
TOC: First TransPennine Express, Arriva Trains Wales
Details: I was coming back from America. As such, I had to get myself from the airport. I was very tired.
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Preston to home on the early services.

Left my flat at 0600 and arrived home at 0900... One of my better journies!

Left at 0616 on 1G21 to Wolverhampton, then got 2W** to Smethwick Galton Bridge, and it was the usual trip back from there... Straight from train to train to train to bus, and back in just as my mum was leaving to take the kids to school in the car at 0855.

Three hour trip from door to door is a really good effort, especially with the 15 minutes of walking from the flat to the station.
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You live at uni 10 miles further from home than me, yet I could never contemplate doing the journey in that! Using absolute fastest possible connections, it would probably entail from home:

2min walk to bus stop
20min bus to Birmingham New Street Station (if there's literally no traffic, otherwise about 40mins).
1h12min Birmingham to Euston, non-stop on the headline train of the day
4 mins bus from Euston to Kings Cross
45 min non-stop Cambridge flyer
15min cycle ride from Station to College (includes 5 mins faffing about unlocking the bike and locking back up again)

Without waiting time, that amounts to 2h15. Add in some waiting time, traffic, delays at Hitchin, London Midland Train bursting into flames at Leighton Buzzard (almost claimed compensation for that one but it was a 40min delay - not enough for the West Midlands route), and it'll easily push it up to about 3 and a half, or more likely, 4 hours.
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I think I can do my house to Dundee in about 10 hours...

Dundee station to uni is about 10 mins walk so it'd be fine there and it's only 3 trains, they all just take a bleeding long time...
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Aye - I hear legends that the trains east of Cambridge are powered by horses, but myths abound about Norfolk...
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West of Cambridge is the horses, east it is mere donkeys.
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Hmm, well, I did a journey of similar length to Norwich - Dundee (Grantham - Banchory, a distance of 406 miles vs 436 miles) by car on Thursday, it took around 7 hours. I'm not familiar with the railways in your part of the world - can you not get a train from wherever you are to the ECML, the just getting a East Coast train from there direct to Dundee? Although I guess depending on timing, you may well have to change at Edinburgh. Or have a leisurely trip up the A1. ;)
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That's exactly what I do/will do. Gunton - Norwich, Norwich - Peterborough, Peterborough - Dundee or more likely Peterborough - Edinburgh, Edinburgh - Dundee.

No other way round it. Basically the trains across the fens are nothing short of pretty awful.
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Ah, didn't realise you needed two trains to get to the ECML!
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Destination: Karlberg
From: Skärholmen
Company: Stockholms Lokaltrafik (SL) in co-operation with MTR (first leg) and Stockholmståg (2nd leg)
Train Class: C20 and SL X60
Details: Metro Red Line from Skärholmen to Stockholm Central with the C20 train. At Stockholm central, switch to the commuter trains always malfunctioning in snow. Luckily, they sort of worked at 2am, no major delays. No major delays, but the metro ran five minutes late
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Destination: Aylesham
From: London St Pancras
Company: Southeastern
Train Class: Class 395 (Javelin -395006 + 395007) for the first part and Class 375 for the second (from Faversham)
Details: Just really a completely random trip to London and this was the coming back part :),
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Re: Your Last Train Journey?

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Speaking of which, how well loaded are the High Speed Trains? :)
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