The Met Office warned it might be a cold winter, and it seems they were right. -6C this morning as I stepped out of the door to get the 0612 GNER train to London. And the kind of morning when you reflect on what an extraordinary thing it is to live in a city […]
A belated posting from a journey last month from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Using the GPS on the train is a hit and miss affair; depending on the electrical properties of the train windows, the number of tunnels, cuttings etc and the position of the satellites. Makes me wonder how they will ever get […]
An excellent excursion by train today from Durham to Newcastle. Very easy, except why, oh why do we have to be charged to park at the station? I know the answer of course, but it seems so silly to penalise me for using the environmentally friendly option. £4.80 for a return trip, […]
One of the fastest services north from London on the East Coast is the GNER 15:00 London to Glasgow. It makes York in just 102 minutes, cruising at 125 mph most of the way. In theory. This means a convenient 9 minute change in York onto a Virgin Voyager at 16:51 gets you […]
Any train that leaves before 6 am is, as far as I am concerned, leaving at night and therefore highly antisocial. After 6am, though is a different matter. This morning I walked up to Durham station in pitch darkness, punctuated by the warm orange floodlights on Durham Castle and the almost surreal, other worldly bluey-grey […]