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Post by patty on Dec 13, 2017 16:53:59 GMT
I am travelling back from London on the 23rd December..my plan to come back at a reasonable time thwarted by the expectation that I would like to engage in festivities with relatives until early evening and get to Swansea at 10:20 where if son not still in Horror House I will get a taxi to a cold damp unheated cottage...hopefully he will still be in residence and have got to grips with Rayburn and wood burner and even collect me..I can but dream,..... I am encouraging him to stay a while, rest, write up his awesome adventures and they go cold weather training.... Trouble is he wants to avoid Christmas a la mayhem....as do I ....I have no choice whereas he can escape. I think trains on 23rd Dec are gonna be horrific...
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 13, 2017 17:10:18 GMT
Also that £42 by train £36 petrol comparison is daft, as you really must add on for you van another £36 for wear & tear - servicing (engine oil & filter, gearbox oil, screenwash, engine coolant, tyres), road tax, vehicle insurance, repairs, spare parts (wheel bearings, exhaust pipe, exhaust catalyst, windscreen wipers, spark plugs, alternator belt). I have many times said the railway network in Britain could be better but no politician wants to do much about it. Not really very much. Tax is free (historic), no mot needed from next year (?) for historic vehicles, fully comp insurance £120 including breakdown relay and European recovery, it cost £2k but worth £20k though I spent £8k fixing it up. It appreciates in value every year and I'm saving the world by making it last 45 years so far. Everything's more or less new, £20 for oil and filter once per year which I do myself like everything else. £140/8,000 miles = under 2p per mile so yes, that's another £2-3 each way but not £36 and tbh it's value appreciating has probably covered those costs and most of the fuel.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 17:13:12 GMT
I knew someone who got run over by a steam train. I bet he's still quite tender... Haa!
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 13, 2017 17:25:47 GMT
Not really very much. Tax is free (historic), no mot needed from next year (?) for historic vehicles, fully comp insurance £120 including breakdown relay and European recovery, it cost £2k but worth £20k though I spent £8k fixing it up. It appreciates in value every year and I'm saving the world by making it last 45 years so far. Everything's more or less new, £20 for oil and filter once per year which I do myself like everything else. £140/8,000 miles = under 2p per mile so yes, that's another £2-3 each way but not £36 and tbh it's value appreciating has probably covered those costs and most of the fuel. Well, you have the answer! 2p a mile, and goes forever! Who needs electric cars?! Think of all the miners' lives that can now be saved by not having to dig up all that lithium! I agree entirely it's a no brainer. Cars sit in jams, any old car can do that but people fall for the motor industries dream of freedom on clear roads and smug, safe, one upmanship.
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 13, 2017 17:47:47 GMT
You should try anywhere within 30 miles of Manchester for the traffic jam experience. Rush hour starts at 5am and finishes around 7.30 in the evening. After that it's mostly endless lorries which aren't allowed in the fast lane.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 16:04:35 GMT
Sometimes trains make sense sometimes not.
Traveled up to London yesterday (and back today), 2 hrs each way, 180 miles each way, just over £50. Way up had a very nice meal and bottle of wine in the Pullman Dining car (very expensive as well but sometimes it's worth treating yourself), way back had a seat in the Quiet Carriage to help me nurse the hangover.
Highlight of the trip was getting to watch Tower Bridge open whilst standing on the glass floor in the room above the bridge, what a fantastic evening wedding venue.
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