Where are you on the transport network?

[danny la rouge]

I'm at Tebay service (southbound) on the M6.

Traffic moderate. Weather fair but windy.

These are my favourite motorway services. There's none anywhere in these islands to compare, in my view. (Though if we include A roads, the Ralia reststop on the A9 beats it for scenery and food).

 

[Puddy_Tat]

it's a bank holiday weekend. i am avoiding the transport network. there is an absence of traffic in my front room, and i'm sure there is some weather out there.

have fun.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've only just got dressed, so not aware whether there is any traffic going on outside either.

 

[danny la rouge]

it's a bank holiday weekend. i am avoiding the transport network. there is an absence of traffic in my front room, and i'm sure there is some weather out there.

have fun.

I'm picking up Mrs LR from a sudden visit to her mother (who is ill). I was planning to return tomorrow but am returning later today to avoid tomorrow's traffic.

It's a 600 mile round trip. I'm hopped up on double espressos.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

sudden visit to her mother (who is ill)

that's most inconsiderate of her, being ill at a bank holiday weekend...

 

[maomao]

Cut off from the rest of the country as in order to bring us crossrail TFL have decided to shut down our perfectly good (in fact brilliant) railway for every fucking bank holiday weekend this year.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hope you have a safe and uneventful journey danny la rouge

 

[spanglechick]

I'm a few feet away from where the signal box of upper Sydenham station used to be.

Unfortunately the station was decommissioned In 1954 due to dwindling numbers that never recovered from the diminishing popularity of Crystal Palace as a tourist attraction, and the high level line of the South Estern and Chatham railway through this part of the world no longer exists.

On the plus side, they wouldn't have built my estate if they hadn't closed the station, so...

 

[marty21]

I'm having lunch at a cafe on the A107

 

[sunnysidedown]

Just passing Whittlesea on a Crosscountry train.

 

[Fez909]

I'm just pulling into Wakefield train station. It's a nice day, and I've been listening to lovely tunes for the journey. 20 mins left

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Just passed through Manchester Piccadilly - there are some trains in the station if that helps danny la rouge

 

[baldrick]

Getting a tram to Birmingham city centre

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm on the Chiltern back from visiting mum for weekend.

 

[danny la rouge]

Knutsford now. Don't usually stop here but traffic getting heavy and fancied another coffee. Weather greyer.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Knutsford now. Don't usually stop here but traffic getting heavy and fancied another coffee. Weather greyer.

Stop off in Manchester and I'll take you on a pub crawl.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm in Tebay northbound now.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm in Tebay northbound now.

Turn around and head back to Manchester, so I can get you hammered and tie you to a lamppost in a compromising position.

 

[Dan U]

View attachment 105691 I'm at Tebay service (southbound) on the M6.

Traffic moderate. Weather fair but windy.

These are my favourite motorway services. There's none anywhere in these islands to compare, in my view. (Though if we include A roads, the Ralia reststop on the A9 beats it for scenery and food).

Used to stay in the hotel there years ago for work, lovely place.

 

[DaveCinzano]

These are my favourite motorway services. There's none anywhere in these islands to compare, in my view.

Have a crack at M5 Gloucester

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[kebabking]

Another vote for tebay...

Gloucester services are run by the same people who own tebay and it shows.

The Services at Abington on the M74 used to be really good - the food was at tebay standard, and it has a Burger King for hurried eating - but the food has degraded to standard motorway services level...

danny la rouge - massive big ups fella, I often do a similar trip (Worcester - Glasgow - Worcester) and I could never do up and back in one day. I regularly go up to Glasgow really early, spend the day and then drive down to Carlisle or Penrith and stay the night, but I'm shagged out by then...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Another vote for tebay...

Gloucester services are run by the same people who own tebay and it shows.

Ooh yes, with websites and everything!

Gloucester Services | M5 Services | Farmshop | Gloucester Jobs

Tebay Services | UK M6 Motorway Services | Westmorland Ltd

 

[kebabking]

Ooh yes, with websites and everything!

Gloucester Services | M5 Services | Farmshop | Gloucester Jobs

Tebay Services | UK M6 Motorway Services | Westmorland Ltd

Yeah, ok, you've got me - I'm Kebabking, and I've never touched a woman...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yeah, ok, you've got me - I'm Kebabking, and I've never touched a woman...

I wasn't being sarcastic - I didn't know and then was genuinely excited

 

[neonwilderness]

View attachment 105712 I'm in Tebay northbound now.

The southbound side is better IMO (you can drive out by the hotel onto a local road and swap sides )

I'm back home now, but I was parked here earlier (just to the left of this shot):

My car looked slightly out of place

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm home safely now. Return trip was good. Fine driving weather, good clear road most of the way.

The teen has been drinking tequila and chopping garlic on the breadboard without washing it. But that's teens.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The southbound side is better IMO (you can drive out by the hotel onto a local road and swap sides )

I'm back home now, but I was parked here earlier (just to the left of this shot):

My car looked slightly out of place

What were you doing, delivering sandwiches to Field Marshal Haig and his staff as they planned the next big offensive?

 

[danny la rouge]

Turn around and head back to Manchester, so I can get you hammered and tie you to a lamppost in a compromising position.

Would love to have done the first bit. I've never got hammered in Manchester before (though I have been hammered in Manchester, but the hammering was accomplished elsewhere).

 

[DaveCinzano]

Would love to have done the first bit. I've never got hammered in Manchester before (though I have been hammered in Manchester, but the hammering was accomplished elsewhere).

Have you been buying things through likesfish's Amazon account?

 

[danny la rouge]

Have you been buying things through likesfish's Amazon account?

It was before Amazon. But I can't furnish you with much of a story as most of the details are unavailable to me.