Unusual modes of transport you have used.

[SpookyFrank]

I was on the hovercraft Dover to Calais. It was ok. Faster than the ferry. They should bring it back.

One of those things I thought I'd imagined as a kid. It's completely forgotten about now.

The derelict Calais hoverport was a major migrant jungle at one point.

 

[Sweet FA]

Not sure if it's unusual but I took a night boat to Cairo.

 

[Cloo]

Hovercraft
Funicular a few times
Wooden sleigh down a cobblestone street in Madeira

 

[planetgeli]

Songthaews in Laos.

Jeepneys in the Philippines.

Land Rover, HORSE and walk up Mount Bromo.

 

[hash tag]

Funicular
Traction engine
Unicycle
Hovercraft
Ambulance/sleigh
Pogo stick
Steam boat
The wooden sleigh in Madeira
Cable car
T-bar ski lift
Roller skates

There may well be more

 

[iona]

Are funicular railways really that unusual if we're counting doing them as a tourist thing?

Pedalo
Tractor
ATV - driving, sat on the back and riding behind in a trailer with various combinations of other people/dogs/sheep/farm equipment
Lying up in the top deck of a sheep float with a load of lambs
On top of a table that was hanging out the back of a car
My older brother's souped up goped petrol scooter
Lorry the other day felt unusual for me as a non-driver

 

[hash tag]

Oh, ordinary ambulance. Twice.

 

[WouldBe]

Cable car
Funicular
Drag lift
Tram

 

[blairsh]

Mini steam roller
Water powered funicular railway (Lynton)
Pogo stilts (only broke one wrist on them)
Polaris rzr

 

[petee]

Penny farthing - easier than it looks

really? it's a far way to fall.

 

[StoneRoad]

Flown gliders & light aircraft [plus on a couple of commuter jets]

Have ridden on - or driven -
Funicular & rack railways plus multiple gauge "ordinary" railways [ from 7 1/4" up to Brunel's broad gauge]
A number of vintage trams, including horse-drawn. [not sure which in list to put the Snaefell Mountain Railway.
Better add in quite a number of "modern traction" inc the HST & Tyneside Metro prototypes.

Various ic road vehicles, of course. Some "posher" than others !
Got lifts from a JCB and local tractors over the years.
Plus rode in a Warrior and drove a Ferret
Better not forget the range of steam road vehicles [roller, traction engine, waggon and a steam bus]

William Riley [1909 built rowing lifeboat] plus been out on a lot of other RNLI [& other] lifeboats
Several launches in the Lake District, including "Gondola"
Various Ferries - chain, "normal" and FastCraft ... plus a couple of rowing ones [ie the one at Barmouth]
Several narrow-boats, inc an ex-icebreaker [that was an ar5e to steer, esp backwards]
Miller Fifer

I am having an un-winnable competition with a close friend.
Which of us can drive / ride on the widest range of vehicles.
[I'm leading on Railways, they're leading on boats]

E2A - paternoster lift in Fairfax House [Bristol] and the massive wooden escalator for the Tyne passenger tunnel
[oh and lot of Paisian commuter trams / RTP !]

had better add -

Solomon Andrews Horse-drawn Omibus (at Beamish - and we got off to walk up the hill ; the same event also had a three horse abreast set-up, but I didn't get on that one)

Falkirk Wheel boat lift

People mover [at Stourbridge] and both monorails at Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990.

Also drove the Locomotion No.1 replica whilst it was at Gateshead in 1990.

Really tiny Wallis roller [Grommit] - I think it was used for tarmac pavements.

 

[Spymaster]

C-130 Hercules
Chinook helicopter
Float plane
Police van
Formula 4 racing car
JCB
Forklift truck
Cricket ground roller

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

I've also been on the funicular railway in Prague.
Been on the Miami Metrorail thing - if that counts.
Monorail (Minehead Butlins and Beaulieu Motor Museum)
San Francisco cable car.
The Torpoint ferry - a cable ferry which is quite unusual. Also been on the one at Lake Windermere.
Flown a glider but only from point A back to point A.
Canoe.
Helicopter in Miami.
cable car (london)
ski lift
some sort of tray thing that i sat on to whizz down an Austrian mountain when i was 18 and fearless.
Catamaran from Dover to Calais and back.
I sat in a chieftain tank but it didn't move.
Mirror dinghy
an extra tall bicycle which was essentially a bicycle welded to another bicycle - like a double decker on two wheels.
Greyhound bus.
Railway trolley.
LU engineering train.
Public water bus in Venice.

 

[hash tag]

The Torpoint ferry - a cable ferry

Chain ferry down near Poole

 

[Epona]

Hovercraft
Funicular
Cable Car
Felucca
Gondola
Horse (not that exotic or unusual perhaps)
Donkey (both riding one and in a cart pulled by a donkey. Oh have actually ridden in a horse-drawn trap as well now I think about it)

I would like to go on a steam train but haven't done so yet.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Chain ferry down near Poole

The torpoint one is also a chain one, but i gathered from my Google search that they are called cable ferries anyway. There's also one somewhere else in Devon which i've driven a car on to but can't quite remember where.

 

[Pickman's model]

Post Office railway
Funicular like everyone else
Punt
Hovercraft
Catamaran
Donkey
Cable car
Zipwire
Monorail
Steam train
Ambulance
Police car

 

[hash tag]

Oh god, post office railway as well.
( I'm getting slowly sozzled )

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

When i worked for the Bakerloo Line we took delivery of half a dozen mountain bikes that had been adapted so they could be ridden along the tube track. I'm sad now because i never actually got to try one out.

Oh and I've travelled on a sleeper train that was on a ferry, on my way to Palermo, Sicily.

 

[Elpenor]

Motorrail from Milan to Calais
Also a Motorrail from somewhere in south of France to Calais
Cool Stourbridge train thing
The Marlow Donkey (not a donkey)
Heathrow tunnels between 5A, B and C - this is walking but not many know about it

We took the hovercraft to France one year, on the way back it was really windy so they were cancelled. Think we had to wait ages to then get rebooked onto the ferry. Suspect that was a reason why they declined in popularity

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Glad you like Saltburn ...
I had a lot to do with the 2010/11 restoration [Victorianisation] of the cars.

Fantastic! It's 7 or 8 years since I last went but my brother and sister-in-law go quite often

 

[Epona]

Funicular like everyone else

But does everyone's brain go "Funiculi, Funicula" in full operatic mode whenever they think about it or read the word like mine does?

Actually I expect that's not uncommon, we all know what earworms are like

 

[Puddy_Tat]

But does everyone's brain go "Funiculi, Funicula" in full operatic mode whenever they think about it or read the word like mine does?

umm, no

 

[Epona]

I'd have quite liked to have a go on one of these, but it looks a bit too exhausting for me these days, and probably too hard on the shoulders where I have arthritis.

 

[Voley]

I miss these.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Paternoster at the university of Vienna.

Ooh, I did that one.

 

[Voley]

VIP version.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Forgot the penny farthing. Not sure if it counts, as it was at a fair in a park rather than going from A to B, and I was helped to mount & dismount. I was terrified.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'd have quite liked to have a go on one of these, but it looks a bit too exhausting for me these days, and probably too hard on the shoulders where I have arthritis.

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i might have done - there's a photo somewhere of my dad co-driving one with a stranger. i think it was on a short temporary bit of line, or a siding at a preserved railway or something. i can't remember when (other than it must have been over 30 years ago) or where.

 

[WouldBe]

Chinook
Lynx
Gazelle helicopters

Flown a light aircraft

That chain ferry on Windermere.