Edinburgh - London: train vs plane (Scotsman challenge)

[Bahnhof Strasse]

If you've got a car, it's the ferry to Bruges.

By your moronic argument it's the ferry to Moscow as well.

And it is continuing past 15th December. Just car drivers are not allowed to go on it cos there's too few people in Scotland that need to use it. But do feel free to continue to make yourself look a prized twat by bleating on about why public transport infrastructure doesn't fulfill your exact needs, in spite of the fact that there is no demand for it to do so except in your turgid mind.

 

[ethel]

By your moronic argument it's the ferry to Moscow as well.

And it is continuing past 15th December. Just car drivers are not allowed to go on it cos there's too few people in Scotland that need to use it. But do feel free to continue to make yourself look a prized twat by bleating on about why public transport infrastructure doesn't fulfill your exact needs, in spite of the fact that there is no demand for it to do so except in your turgid mind.

Please note that from the 15th December 2010 DFDS Seaways will be expanding its freight service from Rosyth to Zeebrugge to a two-ship operation, allowing freight capacity on the service to be improved. However, the route will no longer operate as a combined passenger and freight service, and therefore the passenger service will be withdrawn from this date.

http://www.norfolkline.com/EN/Scotland_Belgium_ferries/News/Update_on_Rosyth_Zeebrugge_Service/

 

[Cobbles]

By your moronic argument it's the ferry to Moscow as well.

there's too few people in Scotland that need to use it

Wrong - it was a commercial service - there's not enough people in Scotland that WANT to use it. If they want to get to Belgium/Holland for the week-end, they fly...........

 

[teuchter]

When I was living in Scotland, I'd use the ferry from Newcastle or Hull to get to the continent.

 

[Cobbles]

When I was living in Scotland, I'd use the ferry from Newcastle or Hull to get to the continent.

With the arse raping levels of taxation on fuel, you'd have been better off flying and then renting a car at your destination.

 

[teuchter]

oh no...I'm all outraged at Cobbles' provocative comment again

 

[Crispy]

He sure rouses a right royal rabble doesn't he?

 

[JWH]

With the arse raping levels of taxation on fuel, you'd have been better off flying and then renting a car at your destination.

Or not, depending on the cost of the ferry vs plane ticket.

 

[agricola]

A thread for Cobbles (train beats plane in Scotsman challenge)

Seeing as this was mentioned a while back, I thought that everyones favourite poster, and the rest of this forum, might like to know about this race between train and plane from the Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh, to the Gherkin in the City.

http://trainvplane.scotsman.com/default.aspx

The train won by ten minutes.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

To win by only 10 minutes is a bit embarrassing, given that they started right outside the train station.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I have to go to Edinburgh next week, for a meeting that starts at 12:00 and finishes at 16:00. Presumably plane is the only sensible option if I don't want to stay in a Travel Tavern?

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah, fuck off cobbles.

 

[fogbat]

I was hoping this thread would just contain a massive goatse.

 

[geminisnake]

I'll stick to flying then

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Surprise surprise, a competition set up by a train company about a race involving one of their trains and a plane, results in a win for their train. Whodathunkit?

 

[Frankie Jack]

I'll stick to flying then

This..^^

 

[editor]

Surprise surprise, a competition set up by a train company about a race involving one of their trains and a plane, results in a win for their train. Whodathunkit?

So which parts of the competition do you think were inherently unfair then?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

So which parts of the competition do you think were inherently unfair then?

I am sure it was fair, the train might have suffered a delay, but the rail company must have figures for the speed of the trains and are able to work out the probability of this happening.

 

[agricola]

I am sure it was fair, the train might have suffered a delay, but the rail company must have figures for the speed of the trains and are able to work out the probability of this happening.

So basically you are saying what? That the train company knew it was faster so it wasnt a fair comparison?

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

So which parts of the competition do you think were inherently unfair then?

At the very least I'd expect them to start equidistant from the airport and the train station.

 

[lighterthief]

What were the rules of the competition? The website doesn't seem to say.

 

[agricola]

At the very least I'd expect them to start equidistant from the airport and the train station.

In Corstorphine? Doesnt that miss the point of "the centre of Edinburgh to the centre of London"?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Bit of a call-out-y title isn't it though.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Check in 6:15am.. flight 6:50.. arrive 7:55.. Bus/cab.. Embrae.. 8:30.. Early flights ftw.. Late flights back again.. and vice versa.. BMI..

 

[Hocus Eye.]

So basically you are saying what? That the train company knew it was faster so it wasnt a fair comparison?

But gambled on there not being a delay. That is always the risk with a train journey of it being delayed, especially with a long journey. I travel a lot on Inter city trains and over the years they have got a lot quicker. The last time I travelled down to the West Country though I was delayed by 45 minutes when an engine developed a fault. This on a journey of what should be about 3 hours is very great. Usually the journey is reliable and on time. If that train I was on had been the subject of a bet it would have lost the bet, but this doesn't happen often. I expect the trains to be on time and they usually are.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Bit of a call-out-y title isn't it though.

Nah..

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Nah..

It doesn't get all that much more call-out-y surely. Well, it could be called "Cobbles you cunt I'm calling you out".

Incidentally I'd take the train even if it turned out to be two hours longer, since so much more time in the business of flying is basically wasted stress time.

 

[paolo]

Seeing as this was mentioned a while back, I thought that everyones favourite poster, and the rest of this forum, might like to know about this race between train and plane from the Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh, to the Gherkin in the City.

http://trainvplane.scotsman.com/default.aspx

The train won by ten minutes.

The plane was an extra £250 too.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

In Corstorphine? Doesnt that miss the point of "the centre of Edinburgh to the centre of London"?

I'd hazard a guess that more people would be making that journey starting from Corstorphine than from the Scotsmen hotel.

 

[paolo]

At the very least I'd expect them to start equidistant from the airport and the train station.

Which would produce a biased result from the point of view of people who don't live on that side of Edinburgh.

City centre is a fair because it evens out the gain/loss incurred depending on which side of the city one lives in.