Comments on: The Great Train Journey

By: International Kim of Mystery

International Kim of Mystery — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’m actually not so mysterious. I’m embarking on a trip like yours this afternoon. To Middlesbrough (a shit town with a ‘University’, with anything between 0 and 2 train stops (via Darlington and um, somewhere else, Doncaster?), also with a bus prior to this trajet and stopping at Marks & Spencer Simply food and the Information Desk in-between.

When get back we can compare notes…I’m back on Sunday so anything can happen!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

So… that means you could get to the Oak on Monday?

By: adam

adam — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hating to spoil all your fun, but; had you bothered to ask someone who grew up (near enough) in Luton they could have told you there is in fact a far shorter journey from Luton to Wakefield Westgate. There is a train from Luton to Milton Keynes Central then from there to Birmingham New Street and finally the home straight.
The chief advantage of this route being it is a lot shorter in terms of time + you don�t have that irritating period of travelling south when in fact you wish to head north 8o)

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I would like to note that I always thought this journey would work out, and that I think a parkway is basically just a great big car park with public transport, but I’m not sure.

They have one in Warwick, too. Or just outside it. It is confusing when you are travelling to Warwick by train and don’t realise that it’s there, because if you are coming from the direction that puts the Parkway first and you don’t know what’s going on then you have about a minute to decide whether to risk getting off and being far away from where you want to be or staying on and being taken far away from where you want to be.

Trains are hard sometimes.

By: Paul (the other Paul)

Paul (the other Paul) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A parkway (such as Port Talbot Parkway or Bristol Parkway, the two near Swansea) is a station with a large carpark. That is, it had a large carpark when it was built, as opposed to having one added on later, as most stations do.

I'm lucky in that I live is Swansea, the only place I tend to want to go on the train is Manchester, and that there's a very handy Alphalink two-car sprinter laid on seemingly for the sole purpose of shuttling me and my mother between the two. It's a bit like the fact that the only motorway I have to worry about is a two-lane affair at the outstretched end of the M4.