Where are you on the transport network?
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
BB1 was stuck there on Monday night, just abandoned by the train company.
Keeping up a family tradition: https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/one-night-in-basingstoke.117478/
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
Lizard Line to Terminal 5
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
The taxi/bus replacement was a complete shambles. I left Basingstoke at 4 on a coat and got home at 5 in the morning.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Lovely station isn’t it! Been there a couple of times on work things.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
rail replacement buses are a bit of a lottery at the moment - bus and coach operators have hardly got enough drivers to do their regular work at the moment...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
rail replacement buses are a bit of a lottery at the moment - bus and coach operators have hardly got enough drivers to do their regular work at the moment...
We need one tomorrow, with a wheelchair and two dogs. SWR says dogs are not allowed...
blossie33
trailer trash
Good old Moor Street
It is a lovely station and has managed to survive all the redevelopment in Brum.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I'd also suggest making contact first if someone's travelling with a wheelchair - i'm not quite sure that the rules about accessibility / wheelchair access have fully got as far as rail replacement buses / coaches.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
It's just Guildford to Godalming, there is a regular bus, leaves 1 minute before our train is due in, next one is an hour later...
Hoping there maybe an Uber Pets available, if not will send the party on by cab and I'll wait for the next bus...
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
In the Business Class South lounge at Terminal 5.Given Bahnhof Strasse's pictures of the Concorde Room I'm feeling like veritable peasant.
But, life is good. The flight's delayed. So we have to keep getting more value from here.
T & P
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Do they still do the annoying ‘you can only order food from your phone’ thing?
Not that I’ve been to that many business lounges, but BA’s at T5 is by far the most underwhelming.
Madrid flights are now departing from T3, and my OH discovered recently that you can go into other One World lounges with a BA ticket (never knew that!) She said the American Airlines lounge on T3 was ludicrously better than the bog standard BA lounge on T5 in every respect.
T & P
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Oh yeah? Interesting. Not that I move in such circles other than very occasionally anyway.
Does BA has a lounge there too, or do they send their pax to partner airlines’ lounges? Other than Madrid I am not aware of other BA flights departing from T3, so hardly worth I guess.
And how have they already run out of space at T5?? Far more so as they’re still not even at fault pre-pandemic levels…
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
There’s a BA, AA, Cathay and Qantas lounge which can all be accessed. If I was flying from T3 in business class I’d be trying to visit all of them if there was time. The Ba one is probably best avoided if only as it’s likely to be the same thing as over in T5.
A similar lounge tour is possible at Hong Kong airport if flying one world using the cathay pacific lounges (I did 3 or 4 of them during an 11 hour layover in which I drank rather a lot of champagne)
T & P
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Do you mean you’d be allowed to visit more than one lounge in the same trip out of LHR? That’s something else I didn’t know!
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Yep. It’s allowable; and you can do similar at T2 if flying on star alliance
T & P
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Well, next time I’m on business from T3 I’ll make the point to go through security as early as allowed
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Always wondered what was upstairs
No, it's back to self service.
If you are in business the best one is in the B gates, but you need to be flying from there or the C gates to make it worthwhile.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Better Partridge than some fascist, death-penalty supporting, failed tory scumbag in lairy trousers banging on about trains.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Agreed. Partridge would be a good representation of the type who gets excited about airport lounges. Whereas Michael Portillo is not a proper rail enthusiast.
blossie33
trailer trash
That's the short bit of line between the junction and the town isn't it
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Yes, I believe it claims to be the shortest railway line in Europe or something.That's the short bit of line between the junction and the town isn't it
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I rode that line in 2006, it might have been the old carriage then. As I recall I was the only passenger but there was a driver and a guard and I found it all rather surreal.
I remember it well, it was a Sunday evening and I had just finished a marathon as part of a relay team doing an Ironman triathlon called The Longest Day. After I’d finished, I then travelled by bus, whatever the Stourbridge thing is, and finally conventional train to Worcester.
