Where are you on the transport network?
- Thread starter danny la rouge
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How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
London innit. I think the discarded Evening Standard plays a key part in the composition.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Slumming it on public transport
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Publicly subsidised loss making fancy service for posh Londoners who like holidays in Scotland. Big fan of it myself.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
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I was going to say it reminded me of Luton’s private terminal. I found myself there once when I was delivering an order to a wealthy client who was due to fly back to China in his private yet.Where are you? An airport executive lounge in 1977?
Own up, Bahnhof Strasse , are we right?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It's the Caledonian sleeper first class lounge at Fort William I think. I've done the journey many times but never been in the lounge - it's where all the hunting/fishing types wait so they don't have to mix with the other passengers, for example authentic Highland folk using the service as a vital economic link to the UK's capital.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Do you have any idea how much extra I had to shell out to ensure I would not have the possibility of being anywhere near you? I think you should chip in as a form of compo.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I do. A pleasing thought indeed. Happy Christmas.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I don't blame them. Fort William is a proper dive.
Travel one mile out in any direction and you're in stunning scenery but FW itself is worse than Bracknell town centre
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Yup, it was an attractive enough harbour town until the seafront was destroyed by a road scheme to let you lot get around more easily in your range rovers, and the station moved to its current peripheral location so that rail travellers know their place.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
danny la rouge, do you remember / did you ever use the old Fort William station? Or are you too young? What about you Sasaferrato ?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I remember when it was being torn down. I remember the “shopping precinct” being built too. I suppose I must have used the old station but I have no strong memories of that, only when the town was being fucked up by the stilt road and the other works.
I’d have been at the end of primary school I think.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Ah, I’ve looked at the date in your pictures. I’d have been 10.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The fabulous pogofish (who seems to know every inch of Scotshire like the back of his hand) planned our itinerary and told me to give FW a miss. I was intigued, so took a drive up there from Glencoe, thinking "it can't be that bad".
It was. There were 2 lads doing what looked to be synchronised puking outside a Weatherspoons.
We didn't stop long, and Mrs Spy was dying for a piss. She held it until we got to Ballachulish.
Scotland is an extraordinarily beautiful country but Fort William is a wart on its arse.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Remember it? I knocked it down.
I was one of the engineers working on the new transport centre, and one of my 'bits' was knocking down the old railway station.
The columns were wrought iron, which toughens with age. We were not allowed to use explosives, because of the proximity to other buildings. We hitched a Hymac 580 to one of the columns, it spun its tracks, but the column was unmoved. We got consent to use Cordtex* to crack the columns. I put ten turns round each column and fired it, it did the job and cracked the columns, the Hymac was then able to drag them sideways, and the roof came down.
* Cordtex - Wikipedia
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I lived there for seven years.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
That is my van in the top picture.
It came to sad end after a high speed encounter with a tree.
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Books, not bombs
A minor van- high speedThat is my van in the top picture.
It came to sad end after a high speed encounter with a tree.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
A minor van- high speed
About 60mph, left the road, flew down the bank and hit a tree. I can still see the tree coming towards me in the headlights.
The impact pushed the engine into the passenger footwell, the floor was pushed up in the back of the van, and the steering wheel was through where the windscreen used to be. I had a bruised knee, but otherwise fine. Knocked out by the whiplash, but neck fine. Very very lucky.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
They were surprisingly fast.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
My dad claimed he used to prepare Derek Bell’s Morris minor vans for the British saloon car championship…the vans were lighter than the cars as they had less glass.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
They were light, I once held the back end of one up whilst someone changed a wheel.
They had a disconcerting habit of losing traction on corners, and hopping, rather than sliding.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
AF lounge, Rio de Janeiro international airport
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Better than the Fort William one, tbf.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Aye, Fort William International will be better when the refit is done.
