Where are you on the transport network?
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LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Apart from a clumsy German who nearly fell on me from the top bunk, it's bloody lovely so far! Been given a menu to tick what I want for breakfast, there's a cute little cupboard with a sink in, a nice looking restaurant car, and it's not unbearably hot and stuffy like lots of sleepers seem to be.
E2A: high quality breakfast as well!
E2A: high quality breakfast as well!
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chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Another sleeper tomorrow night. I'll update you all then if don't get crushed in the night!
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Alone, and no all sleepers are mixed sex.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Trent & Mersey Canal, then Coventry Canal.
A look at a canal map makes it obvious the English Midlands around here have long been at the heart of britain's transport networks.
Now manifested in the form of the fabled Amazon warehouses and distribution centres, sadly mainly just connected to motorways.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
2nd pic Burton on Trent?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Yes. When I was taking the picture, somehow Marston's pedigree had become pedigree chum in my mind and my brain decided it smelt of dog food just there. Of course Burton on Trent is famous for brewing and that's what it actually smelt of. Maybe dog food and beer are closer than you think though.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
My family is from there, and a cousin worked for Marston's, we occasionally got free beer. Visiting as a kid you could smell the malt in the streets. You could also smell the Marmite factory.
Pedigree chum, and brewing smelling like dog food, don't say that in Burton! I don't think beer and dog food are close olfactory wise.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Millbrook?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Indeed. The main high speed circuit was a car park today ( trade show) but I have been round it at 120 which wasn’t particularly impressive until the test driver took his hands of the steering wheel for about half a mile…
T & P
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Then again cars capable of far faster speeds than 125 mph have been available for decades, so the Intercity 125 is impressing nobody either. This would-be jibe would have played much better if we were in France or Germany, but alas, we’re not.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I wasn't asking anyone to be impressed by the intercity 125. Simply pointing out some reasons why A380 going round in circles (aka going nowhere) in a car park at 120mph with no hands on the steering wheel is not enough to impress me. And we all know that's what he was trying to do.
mx wcfc
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More to the point, how does going round and round in circles in a car park actually constitute being on the transport network?
I call for an immediate thread ban for the apostate.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
The Mallard steam loco was capable of 126 Mph in 1938.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
This very question had raised itself in my mind but I generously decided not to mention it.
T & P
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Well, whereas I haven’t partaken in the experience A380 enjoyed, I suspect I myself would find it far more impressive than riding on a dated train at a speed that would be risible in the Continent, even if it takes you from one place to a different one as opposed to completing a circular track.
Not that it should be a competition, of course. Some people like putting a car through its paces going round in circles in a track, others get their thrills from riding a steam locomotive heritage train on a 15-mile linear track that takes them nowhere useful. In fact, most rational people would probably enjoy both, or at least refrain from engaging in ‘my form of transportation enthusiasm is better than yours’ pissing contests.
mx wcfc
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A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Millbrook is not a race circuit, it's the UK's main research facility for the automotive industry.
T & P
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Indeed, and an incredible piece of engineering such locomotives were too. Only I’d thought everyone over the age of eight would have abandoned all such ‘my xxx goes faster than yours’ type discussions.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Indeed, And in fact i've been faster than it a car (also trains and the Shanghai Maglev) but actually don't get that much joy from that, prefer little aeroplanes where the issue is not going too slow... The issue at Millbrook was the banked high speed circuit meant the driver could take his hands off the wheel because the camber means that from a physics point of view the car behaves as if it is traveling on a straight line...
T & P
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Having been a Brooklands a couple of times, it is mind boggling to try to imagine those guys doing it for the first time, in the first such track in the world, in cars that were glorified land rockets with wheels.
If I had an old car I would still do the historic steep ramp challenge. Not quite the same, but still fun I’m sure.
