Where are you on the transport network?

[hash tag]

Can get the sleeper to Fort William. Much classier.

 

[Winot]

The glamour. East Midlands Rail have added to the fun by removing all seat reservations and screwing up the coach identifiers so passengers are in the wrong carriages blocking access to coaches leaving loads standing.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Can get the sleeper to Fort William. Much classier.

Sleeper is a fucking misnomer, noisy, rattling, torrid night is not sleep.

And the lounge has no booze. However the Crofters pub did and their food was first class, as was the company.

 

[hash tag]

Sleeper is a fucking misnomer, noisy, rattling, torrid night is not sleep.

Mrs tag gets quite excited by the no sleeper trains

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Mrs tag gets quite excited by the no sleeper trains

Christ, the cabins are not large enough to get a boner in. Middle aged Alfa drivers could, I guess…

 

[Sasaferrato]

Sleeper is a fucking misnomer, noisy, rattling, torrid night is not sleep.

And the lounge has no booze. However the Crofters pub did and their food was first class, as was the company.

Back in the day the sleeper train had ordinary carriages as well as the sleeper ones. The carriages were compartmentalised, six seats to the compartment.

When I first joined the army I got that train back to depot after being home on leave. Usually, the no sleeper bit was very quiet going South, so you could stretch out over three seats and sleep. One night, I'd just got settled when the guard came along, I thought he was going to tell me to sit up, but no, he advised me to move down a compartment, as the heating wasn't working in the one I was in. The train came into Euston, tube to Waterloo East, then train to Ash Vale. I used to get in with 20 minutes to shave and get into uniform for first parade.

1000 miles of train travel for 36 hours at home.

 

[hash tag]

Early skiing holidays with the school we travelled in couchettes, 6 bunks to a compartment. I think the Viet Nam trains were also like this, though they may have had 3 bunks?

 

[hash tag]

Christ, the cabins are not large enough to get a boner in. Middle aged Alfa drivers could, I guess…

I might have issues, but pleased be reassured, this is not and has never been one of them.

 

[teuchter]

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.

We can never speak again.

 

[Sasaferrato]

We can never speak again.

Sorry, but it had to be done.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Early skiing holidays with the school we travelled in couchettes, 6 bunks to a compartment. I think the Viet Nam trains were also like this, though they may have had 3 bunks?

Moscow to St Petersburg in 1987, 8 to a cabin, miserable babushka at the end of the car over a stove from which she refused to make tea, 8 lads chain smoking in a sealed cabin, cough, happy memories…

 

[hash tag]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

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are you travelling by underground or tardis?

 

[hash tag]

are you travelling by underground or tardis?

TARDIS, to keep away from Christmas.

 

[hash tag]

Home.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

My nearest bit of the rail network here. Right at the end of my street in Dover.

 

[teuchter]

Named after the better known Loughborough Junction in south london. Someone must have moved here when Londoners started occupying the surrounding countryside.

 

[Spymaster]

Named after the better known Loughborough Junction in south london. Someone must have moved here when Londoners started occupying the surrounding countryside.

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They also built a university there and reserved it for the most intelligent, charming, and handsome students. Conditions of acceptance that endured until the mid 80s.

 

[blossie33]

Is that Loughborough - top sports Uni too isn't it?

 

[hash tag]

Named after the better known Loughborough Junction in south london. Someone must have moved here when Londoners started occupying the surrounding countryside.

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Should have gone to "THE" Loughborough Station (Mrs Tag had a day driving a steam train here).

 

[hash tag]

 

[T & P]

That looks miserable, wherever it might be

 

[blossie33]

Is it Piccadilly - arches in front of the Ritz on the right?

 

[hash tag]

Is it Piccadilly - arches in front of the Ritz on the right?

yes

 

[Elpenor]

So just gone past the royal academy on your left?

 

[blossie33]

The RA is in the distance, on the left of the picture, you can just about see the white columns of the entrance.

 

[Winot]

Wolseley on the right

 

[hash tag]

Fortnums n Waterstones also up on right and Cotswold clothing on the left

 

[BassJunkie]

Wow, I feel like I'm on a tour bus, with a number of hosts pointing out the sights. I'm now regretting sitting on the top of the bus with no roof though.

 

[hash tag]

We will shortly be approaching Piccadilly Circus, Eros........