Where are you on the transport network?

[neonwilderness]

Edit: Wrong thread, but this one coincidentally is on the transport network. Manors station(s) on the edge of Newcastle.

 

[T & P]

Fleet Services. Is there a nicer motorway services than this for alfresco eating?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

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Fleet Services. Is there a nicer motorway services than this for alfresco eating?

Yes, shit loads of the all over France, Germany, Austria etc...some of which don't charge £8gazillion for a Zinger Burger too.

 

[teuchter]

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Fleet Services. Is there a nicer motorway services than this for alfresco eating?

When you say "al fresco" you mean some picnic tables and a few trees next to a giant carpark and a motorway, right?

 

[T & P]

When you say "al fresco" you mean some picnic tables and a few trees next to a giant carpark and a motorway, right?

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Which beats the eating facilities of most other motorway service stations. Your point being?

 

[teuchter]

Which beats the eating facilities of most other motorway service stations. Your point being?

Just offering my sympathies to those who travel by private road vehicle and suffer depleted life quality as a result.

 

[T & P]

Just offering my sympathies to those who travel by private road vehicle and suffer depleted life quality as a result.

Could be worse though. Imagine those poor fuckers who don’t travel first class on trains and want to have a pleasant meal during their journey.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Could be worse though. Imagine those poor fuckers who don’t travel first class on trains and want to have a pleasant meal during their journey.

Think of the poor sods who do travel first class on trains and run the risk of being sat next to teuchter?


Not sure why anyone uses services these days, sites like this have been around for years JustoffJunction.co.uk and a quick google will reveal a nearby eatery or petrol station that is half the price and twice as nice...

 

[xenon]

Weston Super-Mare train station on way back to Bristol.

 

[T & P]

Think of the poor sods who do travel first class on trains and run the risk of being sat next to teuchter?


Not sure why anyone uses services these days, sites like this have been around for years JustoffJunction.co.uk and a quick google will reveal a nearby eatery or petrol station that is half the price and twice as nice...

That’s a nice website- cheers.

 

[hash tag]

When you say "al fresco" you mean some picnic tables and a few trees next to a giant carpark and a motorway, right?

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Don't knock Fleet services. Many happy/romantic memories of that place

 

[A380]

When you say "al fresco" you mean some picnic tables and a few trees next to a giant carpark and a motorway, right?

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Be honest, you wish all car parks were like these don’t you you moomin botherer.

 

[teuchter]

That car park looks way more interesting than that motorway services place and all the cars in it look like they don't work which is perfect.

It doesn't look like it's all full of Alan Partridge type characters, unlike the places T & P likes to go for lunch.

 

[T & P]

That car park looks way more interesting than that motorway services place and all the cars in it look like they don't work which is perfect.

It doesn't look like it's all full of Alan Partridge type characters, unlike the places T & P likes to go for lunch.

Well, other than the inevitable limitations of catering whilst on the move, which let’s face it aren’t particularly brighter at most train stations either, when I reach my destination I tend to take advantage of the mobility afforded by teh evil motor vehicle to pick the most appealing places to eat within my budget even if 10-20 miles away. Which affords the luxury of discounting places likely to be frequented by Alan Partridge types, trainspotters and other such weirdos.

 

[teuchter]

Driving 20 miles to "an appealing place within my budget" is exactly the sort of thing an Alan Partridge type character would do.

 

[T & P]

Driving 20 miles to "an appealing place within my budget" is exactly the sort of thing an Alan Partridge type character would do.

It’s what any normal human being would do who hadn’t watched Christine one time too many as a child and developed a soul-consuming hatred of the motor vehicle.

 

[platinumsage]

 

[T & P]

Belfast City Airport. With the Spirit Aerosystems’ building and a big fuck off cruise ship in the background.

 

[hash tag]

 

[maomao]

Kings Cross heading north.



There should have been four of us but it's just me and the six-year-old now as littl'un is not well. Absolutely gutted leaving him behind but daughter has had a rotten year and deserves a holiday.

 

[chainsawjob]

Brampton Hut services A1/A14 junction. Doing a LFT in my car before I carry on to my destination.

 

[mx wcfc]

No 5 bus stop outside the train station after a few pints in the Albion. Christ, I’ve actually missed standing here.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

no photo (taking photo and posting would have been awkward) but have done the M25 and am now at mum-tat's for the weekend.

first time since about xmas 2019 that i have been more than 10 miles in any direction...

 

[Dogsauce]

Another standard summer holiday feature for my family, ticking off another funicular or teleférico.

This year it’s Braga’s turn.



I’ll have to come back at some point and do the other track so I can properly colour it in on my track atlas.

 

[Dogsauce]

In a hole

 

[hash tag]

A Thames Clipper framed by Battersea Rail Bridge with the heliport as a backdrop.

 

[Mattym]

Think of the poor sods who do travel first class on trains and run the risk of being sat next to teuchter?


Not sure why anyone uses services these days, sites like this have been around for years JustoffJunction.co.uk and a quick google will reveal a nearby eatery or petrol station that is half the price and twice as nice...

I was contemplating spending £15 on that 'Extra Mile' book, which I think, is basically the same as that website, so thank you.

 

[hash tag]

I would only use a service station for a wee n tea. Have found some lovely pubs just 10 minutes or so from motorway which have been well worth supporting.

 

[Supine]

 

[marty21]

Clapton Station