Where are you on the transport network?

[teuchter]

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A Geoff Marshall video about Crystal Palace High Level has just appeared -

 

[A380]

Got a local bus today, first time since Covid...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the more I learn of you the more I know you didn’t do this for practical reasons, you did this for the theatre and joy it brings, and today I was lucky enough to enjoy that again...




And I count my blessings that I have reason to travel this route from time to time.

 

[teuchter]

Shipley, one of the UK's few triangular stations.

 

[teuchter]

England's highest mainline station. It's not that high really because it's just England. By this afternoon I'll have got to a proper country (Scotland) and go through the UK's highest point on the mainline network.

 

[teuchter]

Not my train, sadly

 

[hash tag]

Not very clean nor green either. Nearly as bad as the Thames River us

 

[Sasaferrato]

Another vote for tebay...

Gloucester services are run by the same people who own tebay and it shows.

The Services at Abington on the M74 used to be really good - the food was at tebay standard, and it has a Burger King for hurried eating - but the food has degraded to standard motorway services level...

danny la rouge - massive big ups fella, I often do a similar trip (Worcester - Glasgow - Worcester) and I could never do up and back in one day. I regularly go up to Glasgow really early, spend the day and then drive down to Carlisle or Penrith and stay the night, but I'm shagged out by then...

I've done Berlin to Darlington, but I suspect that you had a days work in your trip.

 

[teuchter]

The A87

 

[hash tag]

That looks like it was taken from the inside of a car?

 

[T & P]

That looks like it was taken from the inside of a car?

Clearly, 100% impossible. Unless teuchter has had his phone nicked.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Maybe he's finally grown up?

 

[Sasaferrato]

About five minutes walk from a bus stop.

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[a_chap]

You could at least give us a clue where you are

 

[teuchter]

The kylerhea ferry. Claims to be the last operating turntable ferry in the world. Not sure if I believe that. Probably the best small ferry in the UK though.

 

[teuchter]

Mam Ratagan pass.

 

[teuchter]

Back to more civilised transport modes tonight though.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Mam Ratagan pass.

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My father was the Divisional Road Surveyor for Lochaber, Glenelg, at the other end of Mam Ratagan, was on his patch.

 

[hash tag]

The kylerhea ferry. Claims to be the last operating turntable ferry in the world. Not sure if I believe that. Probably the best small ferry in the UK though.

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That may be small but it has cars. I was on this yesterday which I would have thought was more your style.
Despite operating near to one of the most car dependent area's of the UK, it does not take cars, only peds and bikes.

 

[teuchter]

My father was the Divisional Road Surveyor for Lochaber, Glenelg, at the other end of Mam Ratagan, was on his patch.

I'm surprised Lochaber went as far north as that ... Especially seeing as glenelg can't have been directly connected to the rest of it. My father is also a (retired) roads engineer with various bits around the NW Highlands to his name

 

[Sasaferrato]

I'm surprised Lochaber went as far north as that ... Especially seeing as glenelg can't have been directly connected to the rest of it. My father is also a (retired) roads engineer with various bits around the NW Highlands to his name

Things could b a bit odd geographically.

Prior to Lochaber he was surveyor for the Outer Hebrides, based on Harris. Harris, as you know, shares an island with Lewis. Dad didn't have Lewis though, that was Ross and Cromarty, Harris being Invernesshire. Stornoway, Lewis, had a school that went to sixth year, Lews Castle School, but the Harris kids had to Inverness and stay in the hostel after third year.

Dad's patch went South to the Ballachulish Bridge, but also went by the 'old road' to beyond Kinlochleven. North to the midpoint of the canal bridge at Fort Augustus, West out to Mallaig.

Glenelg has an amazing war memorial, modeled on the local land owner's son who was killed.

I took my daughter on a mega day out round the West Highlands, we did 692 miles.

Breakfast in Fort William, lunch in Portree and tea in Oban.

We went to Glenelg, but as I didn't realise that the Kylerhea ferry was still operating, it was Mam Ratagan both ways, an absolute pig of a road.

 

[existentialist]

The kylerhea ferry. Claims to be the last operating turntable ferry in the world. Not sure if I believe that. Probably the best small ferry in the UK though.

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The kylerhea ferry. Claims to be the last operating turntable ferry in the world. Not sure if I believe that. Probably the best small ferry in the UK though.

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A little documentary:

 

[teuchter]

A little documentary:

Yeah. But I knew about it long before Tom Scott did. I might even have been on it before he was even born. I saw that video come out the other week and have so far refused to watch it because just who does he think he is, with his millions of subscribers and interests irritatingly similar to mine. I hate him for stealing what should have been my vocation, just like Geoff Marshall and the man in seat 61 have too.

 

[existentialist]

Yeah. But I knew about it long before Tom Scott did. I might even have been on it before he was even born. I saw that video come out the other week and have so far refused to watch it because just who does he think he is, with his millions of subscribers and interests irritatingly similar to mine. I hate him for stealing what should have been my vocation, just like Geoff Marshall and the man in seat 61 have too.

Bastards! Post a link to your Youtube channel, and let Urban work its magic. I'm sure yours will be better than the rest.

 

[teuchter]

Bastards! Post a link to your Youtube channel, and let Urban work its magic. I'm sure yours will be better than the rest.

It's not a fair contest though, because these people just get an engaging screen presence and boundless enthusiasm handed to them on a plate when they are born. If they want to gain an online audience, they don't have to do any of the hard work like starting pointless arguments on discussion boards or building up detailed transport related knowledge of no use in conventional society. I bet I've got a higher postcount on the railUK forums than any of these frauds, and in the end perhaps that's what history will recognise.

 

[MickiQ]

starting pointless arguments on discussion boards or building up detailed transport related knowledge of no use in conventional society.

Credit where credit is due, you're really good at doing those

 

[existentialist]

It's not a fair contest though, because these people just get an engaging screen presence and boundless enthusiasm handed to them on a plate when they are born. If they want to gain an online audience, they don't have to do any of the hard work like starting pointless arguments on discussion boards or building up detailed transport related knowledge of no use in conventional society. I bet I've got a higher postcount on the railUK forums than any of these frauds, and in the end perhaps that's what history will recognise.

Heh, I'm going to have to try and see if I can figure out who you are on RailUK now

 

[platinumsage]

Yeah. But I knew about it long before Tom Scott did. I might even have been on it before he was even born. I saw that video come out the other week and have so far refused to watch it because just who does he think he is, with his millions of subscribers and interests irritatingly similar to mine. I hate him for stealing what should have been my vocation, just like Geoff Marshall and the man in seat 61 have too.

I know right? I've been monitoring an interesting phenomenon at a certain remote place for the last 15 years, the other week some 20something YouTuber went there with a drone and did a video that got over a million views. Sure, he said at the end "don't come here it's not for tourists" but I'm assume it's been ruinated by now.

 

[Supine]

Scenic warrington