Where are you on the transport network?

[teuchter]

I need to be at Waterloo around 6pm this evening, and as far as I can see the most sensible route there from south london takes most of the afternoon, going via Abbey Wood and Paddington. Surprising, but there you go.

 

[BassJunkie]

On the Hay On Wye to Hereford bus. We've just walked the first 3 days of the Offa's Dyke path.



Hay is frantically preparing for the festival which behind tomorrow. So sadly we won't be able to attend this:

 

[hash tag]

Stuck in a long tail back on the North circular

 

[hash tag]

Unfortunately what the picture does not show is the flashing hazards on the broken down Porsche

 

[Supine]

Three forms of transport in one picture

 

[T & P]

Three forms of transport in one picture

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Your post has prompted me to wonder what is the maximum number of different forms of transportation I have used on a single door-to-door journey (not including walking).

I can think of one when I managed a respectable 5 during a London to Madrid trip. Bicycle to Clapham Jct, train to Gatwick, plane to Barajas, metro to south Madrid, and bus to my mum’s.

Anyone done 6+?

 

[Elpenor]

There was one time when I walked to the station, train to Waterloo, tube to Victoria, coach to Paris via Channel Tunnel, French train to CDG, flew to LCA and then got a coach to Limassol.

But that repeats a few modes

 

[2hats]

One (northern hemisphere) winter, about ten years ago, when a lot of European airports got snowed in we had to wing it back to London... Bike and then helicopter into Cape Town. Taxi to the airport. Plane to Frankfurt (after much haggling to persuade them not to take us to Dubai instead). Bus to the terminal at FRA. Light rail into the city. ICE train to Brussels. Local train into France, but that got stuck so trudged to bar where got we offered a lift by car to next station. Then another train up to Calais. Lift off lorry driver to the port. Ferry to Dover. Train to London. Tube to Victoria. Coach home.

 

[A380]

Shanghai Bedford. Seven.

Metro-Maglev(!)- airport people mover- Aeroplane-tube- Train - car (half a mile from the station)

7 if you allow the people mover and the car.

Plus Maglev!

 

[teuchter]

This really needs its own thread and some agreement on basic definitions of a few things such as what counts as different modes and quite what counts as a single journey.

 

[planetgeli]

That's the whole thing.

 

[ska invita]

love how pointless these things are....all stations have these now...theyre rubber and comfortable to stand on

 

[BassJunkie]

Funicular you say?

 

[BassJunkie]

Don't mind if I do

 

[BassJunkie]

Big gear at the top

 

[T & P]

Very cool. Judging by the images on Google, they must be popular with peeping toms given how close they ride to buildings

 

[BassJunkie]

And now we're on an Italian train from Lyon to Paris. It covers the distance in the same time as a TGV.

 

[teuchter]

And now we're on an Italian train from Lyon to Paris. It covers the distance in the same time as a TGV.View attachment 325159

One of the first instances of operator competition (controversially) introduced to the French rail network - no more monopoly for SNCF.

It'll have come from Milan and can actually do Milan-Paris faster than a TGV because it's allowed to use some high speed sections in Italy that the TGV isn't.

 

[T & P]

And now we're on an Italian train from Lyon to Paris. It covers the distance in the same time as a TGV.View attachment 325159

You’re being short changed by 1 kph, though. I’d demand a partial refund on my ticket if I were you

 

[teuchter]

Spent ages waiting for a train here yesterday. Absolutely appalling service.

 

[planetgeli]

Cynghordy (King-or-dee) viaduct. It has 18 arches but I could only get about 9 in.

 

[Elpenor]

Day trip to London.

 

[Supine]

In a Nottingham taxi that has a clear roof

 

[tim]

Off to the beach in Northwest London, should probably have brought lashings of ginger beer

 

[A380]

Lots of birds around.

 

[chainsawjob]

Held up at a roundabout due to a very large boat!

 

[davesgcr]

Coming back from Hove [actually]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Coming back from Hove [actually]

Southern must have the crappiest 1st class of any operator, there's no door between 1st and the hoi polloi, the seats are the same, just crap.

SWR saw it and thought to themselves, "that's a fucking good idea" and have made their first 4 seats across when it was 3.

 

[Elpenor]

I suppose they declassify it so often these days anyway

 

[hash tag]

A typical day on Battersea Bridge